July 2013

Where did all the fun go?

Posted by Hugh Mouser - 4 July 2013 at 6:43pm
Electric car charging station sign
All rights reserved. Credit: boboroshi
Sign of the times, but car companies are dragging their heels over electric vehicles

I grew up on a diet of TV shows like Knight Rider and The A Team. I saw Ferrari and Mclaren produce faster cars as time went by. I admired how the car industry kept on trying to improve.

But it seems like some carmakers have lost the fun of innovation.

Article tagged as: BMW, cars, climate change, co2 emissions, daimler, EU, transport, VW

Power up: world's largest wind farm switched on

Posted by Liam Kirkaldy - 4 July 2013 at 1:40pm
Wind turbine, part of the London Array
All rights reserved. Credit: London Array Ltd
Winds of change: the London Array is the largest windfarm in the world

It would be an understatement to say that today is a big one for renewable energy in this country. Because today the London Array – the world’s largest offshore windfarm – becomes fully operational. The scale is breath-taking – it will supply electricity to around half a million homes while providing a technological benchmark for future renewable sources across the globe to aspire to.

Article tagged as: energy, london array, renewable energy, wind power, windfarms

Russian oil spills damaging impact on local wildlife and the environment

Posted by Fran G - 2 July 2013 at 12:49pm
Aerial of an oil spill in a forest near Surgut
All rights reserved. Credit: Denis Sinyakov Greenpeace
Aerial of an oil spill in a forest near Surgut. Disastrous oil spills are a daily routine at Rosneft fields near Pyt'-Yah, Khanty-Mansi region, Siberia.

Denis Sinyakov, who covered Greenpeace’s expedition to the Rosneft’s oil fields, is a Moscow-based Russian photographer, who worked as a photo editor and a staff photographer at Agence France-Presse and Reuters.

Article tagged as: arctic, oil spills, russia, siberia, wildlife

Save the Arctic from Shell and its Russian friends

Posted by ianduff - 2 July 2013 at 8:00am

The Arctic is once again under attack from oil companies.

Over the past year we’ve seen just how reckless Arctic drilling is. Shell, one of the world’s biggest and most powerful corporations, has been leading the charge but a catalogue of screw-ups forced it to pause its drilling program in Alaska

Article tagged as: arctic, gazprom, oil, russia, SaveTheArctic, shell

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