My electricity bill for last month: Import costs ~£50, export credits ~£90. Overall credit for April: £40 (including standing charges and running an electric car).
This is thanks to Solar PV, a House Battery and a flexible tariff from #Octopus (Intelligent Go) - all orchestrated with #HomeAssistant
Capital cost was high but well worth it 👍 #solar#solarpower#battery#solarpv#lowcarbon
New survey says…
✳️ 1.5x more people support the use of #NuclearEnergy than oppose it
✳️ 17 of the 20 countries surveyed have net support (support exceeding opposition) for #nuclear energy’s use
#UK#GreenEconomy#LowCarbon#Environment#ClimateChange: "The UK should invest £26bn a year in a low-carbon economy to revive prosperity instead of planning tax giveaways that will only lead to further stagnation, leading economists have advised.
Investing in energy infrastructure, transport, innovation in new technologies such as AI, and the natural environment would boost the UK’s economy rapidly, the research found.
Public investment at that level would be likely to generate about twice as much accompanying investment from the private sector, and would quickly pay off in higher productivity, efficiency savings, economic growth and carbon reductions, according to a major paper by Lord Stern, a former chief economist of the World Bank, and colleagues from the London School of Economics.
Current government plans to stifle investment, by contrast, would lead to a “continuation of stagnant productivity and weak economic growth”."
To hit its climate targets, #Germany needs a “barrage of investments” to modernise industry and reduce the carbon footprint from heating.
“The crisis-related slump in production weakens the German economy. If emissions are subsequently relocated abroad, then nothing has been achieved for the climate.”
Only 15% of the reduction in 2023 constitutes “permanent emissions savings”.
#ClimateDiary Storm #Henk has turned out to be quite bad. A fatality, storm damage and flood alerts across the country. #Floods and ongoing rain in Germany too, and maybe elsewhere? We will have more and more of all this, of course.
Yes, the fact that it’s all about #Renewable rather than low or #Zerocarbon energy - a legacy of #PeakOil concerns predating #NetZero - is deeply annoying and I wish more people would talk about this. Renewable does not mean low carbon, on the contrary, it’s allowed massive loophole for wood burning for energy, just about the last thing we should be doing. And biofuels. We need #LowCarbon, not renewable energy.
To expand on that: trees don't exist in isolation. If trees are used as a renewable resource for electricity generation or for timber, that's then a tree plantation, not a forest. Their properties are vastly different with regard to water retention, biodiversity, and carbon drawdown.
Don't mind me... just spending a sleepless night browsing ocean shipping lines. Plotting routes from Vancouver to Asia to Europe. #lowcarbon#slowtravel#CO2
Back #NotFlying from Sweden to Wales. Not a sprint like last time, instead it's an overnight ferry to Gdynia (Gdansk) then 24 hours exploring Warsaw, a city I've never visited.
The trip hopefully has some other novelties too. You're welcome along for the #LowCarbon ride. #WarsawAndWelsh
"In the UK, the nation’s largest end-of-life service provider is now going to add “resomation” or water cremation, to its offerings.
Perhaps the most eco-friendly funeral procedure beyond just illegally burying someone in a forest somewhere, resomation has a lot of work to do in terms of gettings its name out there.
Resomation, also known as alkaline hydrolysis, neatly deconstructs a human body all the way down to a skeleton in just 4 hours using an alkaline solution. After that, the bones are ground into a powder and placed in an urn for the family.
It’s the method that anti-apartheid hero Archbishop Desmond Tutu chose after he passed away in 2021. It uses 5 times less energy than a fire cremation."