Battery power is great for cars and taxis. Recently Tesla has shown you can make a viable lorry- claims the range isn’t far enough are absurd. Name one country when a lorry driver is allowed to drive for more than 4 hours without break- modern chargers can give you 4 hours of range in 15 to 30 minutes (a Tesla 3 or y can have 180 miles in 15 minutes).
Continue reading “Can bio-fuels help humanity save the planet from run away global warming? yes but…”The Conservatives record on the environment
When David Cameron entered 10 Downing Street, he talked about it being the greenest government ever. While they have had to be in coalition for much of the period that the have been in power, it is clear that much of the negative effects on the environment has been pushed through by the conservatives not their partners.
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Greening the western lifestyle
If we are to be able to continue to live on planet Earth we are going to need to stop releasing large amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. It is unfortunate that at the current time, this simple fact is not looked on as a fact by some of the big world leaders.
One of the difficult things to look at is that some of the publicised success the UK has had in the last couple of decades is false. When looking carefully you can see that we have exported the emissions, by having things manufactured in India or China for example. This makes it clear that much of the pressure on manufacturers must come from consumers rather than governments. Continue reading “Greening the western lifestyle”