Think about the different ways that people use the wind. You can use it to fly a kite or to sail a boat. Wind is one of our cleanest and richest power sources, as well as one of the oldest. Something shows that windmills(风车)began to be used in ancient Iran back in the seventh ...
The pitch at The Bolt New Lawn stadium is fertilized with seaweed. There are charging ports for supporters with electric vehicles. Some 20% of the electricity for the entire operation comes from solar panels mounted on the stadium roof; the rest is supplied by windmills just up the hill and ...
The road to business sustainability can be a bumpy one, and some of the biggest bumps in the road are the assumptions that environmentally friendly products and services don’t work as well and cost a lot more than their mainstream equivalents. These common assumptions have a big impact on th...
The conclusion is inescapable. However desirable it may be to protect the Earth from the dire consequences of a runaway climate the chances that the world will agree to cut its emissions quickly enough to stay below the 2C threshold are somewhere between zip, zilch and zero. (There’s also...
“Of course it won’t compete with oil today, at around $30 per barrel,” Prakash said. “But right now we burn fossilized sunshine. We will run out of oil and gas, but the sun will be there for another five billion years. So we need to be better at taking advantage of it as ...