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As a vegan, I was a little miffed at not being tagged by Michael McCormack’s inner city latte sipper comment; but I’m guessing he has an...

Preamble You could be forgiven for not realising that the recent (May 2021) IEA Roadmap to net-zero by 2050, for energy emissions, was...

Virtual power plants (VPP) get quite a lot of press from time to time. These consist of a battery of batteries under software control...

If you follow the various high profile 100% renewable energy advocates, Mike Cannon-Brooks, Simon Holmes a Court and anybody in the...

When it comes to the carbon footprint of food, most people have worked out that reducing your carbon footprint involves comparisons....

You can burn hydrogen and it contains more energy per kilogram than petrol. That makes it sound terrific, but a cubic metre of hydrogen...

It's always confusing when people use different names for the same thing. Natural gas is burned for warmth and to generate electricity...

The old-school energy grid is on the nose. It still dominates the global supply, but all the talk is of renewable grids dominated by the...

Jeff Gibbs and Michael Moore didn't say much about LNG (liquified natural gas) in their inconvenient documentary Planet of the Humans....

SARS-Cov-2 (the virus causing the Covid-19 disease) has jumped to us from another species. Which is how we got most other deadly...

Part II defined the two types of testing that are being used to test for SARS-Cov-2 virus infection. (2) Antibody testing ... cheap but...

From last time ... there are two methods to test for infection with SARS-CoV-2 (the virus which causes covid-19): look for the RNA or...

The virus which causes the Covid-19 disease is called SARS-CoV-2. The CoV stands for "corona virus", obviously. There are many different...