A really graphic chart of the comparative figures on CO2 emissions from the different UK sources from the National Atmospheric Emissions Inventory.
It doesn’t include air transport, but does show the huge effect of road transport, as well as the fact that domestic has declined much less than industrial combustion since 1980 and is now larger. […]
The Observer reported yesterday that BP claims to have a practical solution to disposing of CO2 by pumping it under the bed of the North Sea. They claim that the Miller field could absorb 5 million tons a year of liquefied CO2 which would be pumped from the Peterhead power station into the porous rock […]
Two very interesting outcomes from our Birthday shramadana.
My present from Devi and Matthew was a carbon sequestering tree that they had paid to have planted. More details to follow.
Looking into the issue of carbon sequestration led to an interesting page from the Union of Concerned Scientists - Ten Personal Solutions. One striking example they give […]
Before we can do any of the maths on how much energy we are using at the moment, I need to understand the best units to work in. Luckily my daughter, Devi, and son in law, Matthew, are on hand to make up for the physics lessons I failed to follow at school.
It seems the […]