The USA is such a bizarre mix of the good and the bad. The bad stuff we know about: extreme inequality, dysfunctional national politics, crazy gun laws and the death penalty to name just a few. Today I just want to mention a few of the better things. Barack Obama’s announcement about cutting carbon emissions […]
The number of solar panels in use will keep growing for decades. Some will be on trains, ships, planes and integral with road surfaces. Probably most will be installed on rooftops and in deserts where they are not in competition with other land uses. A lot will be on farmland, where they can detract from […]
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a blog about railways and renewables. The German start-up Locomore was running its single train on renewables. Today I’ve learned that since 1st January 2017 the entire Dutch rail system is now running on wind power. During 2016 Holland tripled its offshore wind capacity with the opening of […]