Who owns rainwater?
You would have thought that something that falls from the sky is free, but this would depend on where you live.
In some parts of the US, setting up a rain barrel or some other way of collecting rainwater could be illegal, which may sound outrageous but it’s true, take the state of Colorado, the law [...]
Vatican set to create solar power plant
The Vatican are looking to go green, but this is not some small turbine or a couple of solar panels they are going green in seriously big way.
Vatican City is the smallest nation in the world it covers a small area and there are around forty thousand households within the site. It is the intention [...]
NASA’s failure to launch
A new satellite whose purpose was to track the major culprits of global warming has crashed into the ocean just off Antarctica minutes after being launched from California on Tuesday.
The satellite was going to be part of NASA’s already struggling network of environment monitoring satellites. It cost around $280 million and was specifically designed to [...]
Scottish £10 marine energy prize up for grabs
The future of energy and where we will be getting our supplies from is always an important subject, we have seen how green power from solar panels and wind turbines is already making an impact on energy production, but wave power is going to be the next big thing.
Scotland wants to be at the forefront [...]
Fairtrade coffee for all UK Starbucks fans
The coffee business in the high streets of the UK must be feeling the pinch during the current financial crisis, not because there are so many of them, after all competition is great for business.
This is going to be mainly down to the lack of cash that is around at the moment, which means [...]
Water from fresh air
Water is simply one of the things that we cannot live without and yet there are shortages and contaminations every now and then, which without even thinking about the horror of what happens in the third world.
However, according to a group of eco researchers from Canada, this does not have to be the case and [...]
Al Gore wants people to try renewable energy
With a new government pending in the US, some of the old warhorses are coming out of the woodwork. In this case, it is the world most famous environmentalist and ex-vice president Al Gore who is speaking out.
He feels that with a new government, this could be the time when the USA makes some serious [...]
UK produces more wind power
With the opening of the latest wind farm developments just off the coast at Skegness, the UK has overtaken Denmark as being the world’s leading producer of offshore power produced from the wind.
Offshore wind farms now produce around 590 megawatts (MW) this is enough to provide power for around three hundred thousand homes, although this [...]
Wave energy takes to the sea
The world first viable wave powered energy plant went into action earlier this week. This took place off the coast of northern Portugal where it has produced enough power to supply fifteen hundred homes.
This small plant has only come about because of the countries rules that power companies need to invest into green power.
Nevertheless, there [...]
Bugs used for recycling
It has been discovered a bacteria could help with the disposal of plastic item that are normally dumped in landfill sites and take several hundred years to degrade. Instead of this practice, continuing these plastics could end up being used for recycling.
The bacterium is known as Pseudomonas and they can be used on the low [...]
Gates gets into Bio Fuels
It seems that bio fuels are to be the future of keeping our cars on the road in the short term at least, but with the potential of this industry to make millions if not billions of pounds, then there is going to have to be some serious investment to get the ball rolling.
Step in, [...]
Roads could be a source of power
Anyone will know that when they were children and played outside, the roads during the summer got really hot. This has finally been realised by the science community who believe that this could be a brilliant source of power.
The idea is to lay conductive copper piping before a new asphalt (Black Top) is laid. They [...]
Bee deaths threaten food supplies
This is not the first time that the subject of the declining population of the UK’S bee’s has once again become news, this time because of the results from a survey that has been conducted by the British Beekeepers Association (BBKA) which show that the nations bee population has fallen again.
This may seem like a [...]
BioFuels made from sawdust
It seems that there is no limit to the types of plant matter, which can be converted into biofuels, the only problem is converting the plant molecules into the liquid hydrocarbons, which is essential, otherwise the whole process is a waste of time.
Once this conversion has taken place plant material and waste plant material can [...]
Segway sales up
The famous Segway personal transport system, have been around since 2001 when the inventor Dean Kamen launched it onto the unsuspecting world to the same sort of public response as the personal transport that Sir Clive Sinclair invented, the Sinclair C5!
But it seems that the tide is changing and the Segway is making a big [...]
Millions of people poorer due to bio fuels
At first bio fuel may have seemed a great idea, but now that the scale of the industry is becoming more apparent, there are fears that the hunger for fuel to put into cars is driving the bio fuel industry to expand.
But this expansion of crops for bio fuels means that the traditional crops are [...]
Solar power to take off in Japan
Japan is one of the countries which has to import a lot of their resources such as raw materials and in particular fossil fuels, which puts a massive strain on the country as they are forever scratching around for the best deals, but at the time are at the mercy of someone else.
This could account [...]
The plan to save Battersea power station
A £4 billion plan to save Battersea power station before it falls down has been unveiled, but I order to save the power stations which is one of the most easily recognisable sights on the London skyline the sight is going to have to change dramatically.
The project will include an underground link, three thousand homes, [...]
The business of being green
There are not many places that you can go or see on the TV where eco friendly items are being marketing. The problem is for the average person going green is not very easy, first there is the time consumption because inevitably going green slows things down and then there is cost, going green can [...]
June 17, 2008Top Gear in the US
Could it true? Top Gear is going to appear in the States after all, but this time it is going to be without the familiar faces of Clarkson, Hammond and May! They will not be going over the Atlantic and torturing the American public with their own type of humour and style.
Replacing them will be [...]