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Scotland's renewable energy industry employs more than 17,000 people and had a turnover of £5.5 billion in 2017. Among the exporters are renewable energy consultancyfirm Green Cat Renewables, based in Biggar, South Lanarkshire, which opened an office in Alberta, Canada, in 2017. Technology developed by Glasgow software company Smarter Grid Solutions is being used in Germany, the… Continue reading Scotland’s renewable energy industry employs more than 17,000 people
Last week the BBC came to our house and filmed us for a story on a low carbon family that aired on the news last night. It also went on the web at The Aberdeen family embracing a low-carbon lifestyle. In some ways I feel like a bit of a fraud because I feel there's… Continue reading Living a low carbon life
There's something about having a fire in the house (a planned one of course) that is immensely comforting. All our homes in New Zealand had a working fire and in some of them it was our only source of heating. Our home in Aberdeen had two gas fires which we've never used and I've missed… Continue reading Ethanol fires
About 6 months ago I started volunteering for a local community organisation dedicated to inspiring real action on climate change. The organisation is called Aberdeen Climate Action and my first task has been to build them a website which promotes sustainable living. It's still a work in progress but it's looking good so far. Feedback is… Continue reading Aberdeen’s Climate Café Series
I've just discovered something quite wonderful. Apparently the smell of cinnamon buns has been shown to increase blood flow to the penis. Just joking! I mean, it is true apparently, but that's not the wonderful thing I want to talk about. It was just a cheap shot to get your attention 🙂 Perhaps not quite as exciting as an… Continue reading In praise of cinnamon buns and hydro power
One of the best things about living in a cold climate is an almost complete absence of armpit stink. Women aren't supposed to get smelly armpits but we do in fact get just as smelly as men. Perhaps we have the heating too low in our home here in Scotland but for whatever reason, I find… Continue reading Global warming = smelly armpits
Apparently some scientists have made propane in a lab with little more than the bacteria in our guts: E.coli. This is interesting for a number of reasons. It would make propane produced in this way a renewable fuel. You don't hear the words renewable and propane together in a sentence very often! It's also a synthetically… Continue reading Getting E. coli to make propane
I promised one of my commentators that I'd write a blog post about wind farms. This is perhaps against my better judgement since there is sure to be a heated discussion in the comments but I am not usually one to shy away from a good debate. So here goes. Why do wind farms generate… Continue reading Wind farms: love ’em or hate ’em?
Yesterday I wrote about the nocebo effect in wind turbine syndrome and a comment was made in that post about how windfarms kill birds. It is true that wind farms kill birds when they collide with the spinning blades but it is also true that the total number of deaths associated with wind farms is… Continue reading Wind turbines and birds
You're eating fish at a restaurant. Someone at the table next to yours starts complaining of nausea and fever. The person slips into delirium. You notice they were eating fish. You feel your forehead and think it feels hot. Suddenly you're feeling nauseated. Chances are you're not sick at all but suffering from a phenomenon… Continue reading The nocebo effect and wind turbines
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