Category: Global Warming
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Digital Supply Chain, Climate 21, and Climate Change – a chat with Toby Croucher
It is April 2020 and we are currently in the middle of the Covid-19 Coronavirus pandemic, however we will develop a vaccine for this virus, and so this crisis will finally pass. Unfortunately there is no similar “easy cure” for climate change. With that in mind, a huge amount of an organisation’s carbon footprint comes…
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Shai Agassi's Better Place project explained
In my post about the DLD conference yesterday I showed the video of Shai Agassi’s presentation because I thought it was an amazingly good idea, well explained. However, when I checked out Shai’s blog I found the following video of kids doing a far better job getting Shai’s idea across (sorry Shai!). It is a…
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Support the US Energy Bill
Chris Abraham emailed me overnight asking me to blog about the Energy Bill issue as discussed in http://www.energybill2007.org The Energy Bill is a US environmental focussed bill and the energybill2007.org site Chris links to, urges US politicians to: protect America’s energy, environmental, and economic security by ensuring that the final Energy Bill that goes to…
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Al Gore and IPCC jointly win Nobel Peace prize
I see Reuters are reporting that Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have jointly been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The winners were chosen from 181 entries. This adds even more weight and credibility to the fantastic work being done by the IPCC and the long crusade Al Gore has waged…
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New battery technology imminent?
I was reading a report on Ars Technica today about an emerging battery technology which could totally change how we use batteries today. The breakthrough comes from using capacitors as batteries. Up until now this has not been feasible because there hasn’t been a strong enough insulator to make this approach compelling. However, EEstor, the…
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Climate change
They had snow the other day in Buenos Aires. Texas has had one of the wettest June’s on record with Marble Falls getting 18″ of rain overnight! Australia is suffering from a drought for the last five years which is threatening to destroy 40% of its agricultural output. The UK has had one of the…
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Using I.T. to add green power to the network
The problem with wind power is that its production is variable and difficult to predict. From the perspective of a power supply company, such a supplier is unreliable and likely to de-stabilise the power network. For instance, at 2am in Ireland, when the demand for electricity is near its lowest, if a 40mph wind is…