Earlier this year I saw an all in one inverter and domestic battery unit on display at the Bosch stand at CES. 2 years ago I stayed with my friend Simon Hackett in Adelaide, Australia and saw his line up of domestic batteries in sturdy cabinets outside his home. Simon’s house is covered in solar
Late Thursday night [30 April] in Hawthorne, California, Tesla revealed its “missing piece to building a sustainable future,” which the company says puts the world on the road to “enabling zero emissions power generation.” Tesla notes that the world currently uses 20 trillion kWh of energy annually, which is: “Enough energy to power a single
Supreme court tells ministers to take “immediate action” to meet safe limits of nitrogen dioxide 25 years after original deadline [From 29 April] Britain’s highest court today told the Government to draw up plans to tackle illegal levels of nitrogen dioxide. In a victory for environmental lawyers ClientEarth following a five-year legal campaign, ministers must
It’s not uncommon for media commenters to look at electric-car sales numbers, only to conclude that the segment is teetering on the brink of death. Electric cars will never become mainstream, they argue, because of fickle consumers who base their-car purchases on what the price of gas happens to be the moment they walk into
I have very bad news about oil prices. In the foreseeable future (12 months), their most likely trajectory is… volatile. That is right, bullish and bearish oil price narratives will be proven to be unsatisfactory and overly simplistic. The best bet would be to invest in volatility plays. What explains this heightened volatility in oil
Oil prices are heading higher and could soon return to $100 per barrel as war in the Middle East and speculators drive market It wouldn’t be the first time that oil experts have got it spectacularly wrong when predicting the price of crude. Goldman Sachs went against the prevailing mood in 2008 when it famously
Half of the 41 fracking companies operating in the U.S. will be dead or sold by year-end because of slashed spending by oil companies, an executive with Weatherford International Plc said. There could be about 20 companies left that provide hydraulic fracturing services, Rob Fulks, pressure pumping marketing director at Weatherford, said in an interview
Up to 200,000 business and household customers in New South Wales face extended blackouts of up to a week, or even more, following the dramatic storms in the Sydney region and to its north. And the impact could have as galvanising an effect as Hurricane Sandy had on the New York region of the United
Why 2015 can be the year you go green We love electric cars. They’re almost always pleasant to drive, and the amount of power available at low speeds makes them incredibly fun to use. More importantly however, they help reduce harm to the environment, contribute to a more sustainable level of energy usage, and create
There is a one-in-ten chance of the world being 6C warmer than it is today by 2100 which would lead to cataclysmic changes in the global climate with unimaginable consequences for human civilisation, leading climate researchers have warned in an “Earth Statement”. The risk of hitting the highest upper estimate for global warming based on
