http://climateanswers.info What we can and should do to prevent dangerous climate change and also to make us more secure, richer and happier Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:00:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://climateanswers.info/2011/12/nuclear-energy-no-thanks-%e2%80%93-we%e2%80%99ll-do-it-ourselves/ http://climateanswers.info/2011/12/nuclear-energy-no-thanks-%e2%80%93-we%e2%80%99ll-do-it-ourselves/#comments Wed, 07 Dec 2011 16:12:26 +0000 Prashant Vaze http://climateanswers.info/?p=5031 Three months after the Fukashima nuclear reactor caught fire, Germany decided to phase out nuclear power. The decision stunned Europe’s energy policy community. Nuclear presently provides a quarter of Germany’s electricity - how would it plug the gap?]]> http://climateanswers.info/2011/12/nuclear-energy-no-thanks-%e2%80%93-we%e2%80%99ll-do-it-ourselves/feed/ 0 http://climateanswers.info/2011/08/daring-to-dream/ http://climateanswers.info/2011/08/daring-to-dream/#comments Wed, 03 Aug 2011 12:34:27 +0000 Stephen Tindale http://climateanswers.info/?p=4895 An extract from the introduction to Repowering Communities.]]> http://climateanswers.info/2011/08/daring-to-dream/feed/ 0 http://climateanswers.info/2011/07/22-july-2011-launch-of-repowering-communities-small-scale-solutions-for-large-scale-energy-problems/ http://climateanswers.info/2011/07/22-july-2011-launch-of-repowering-communities-small-scale-solutions-for-large-scale-energy-problems/#comments Fri, 22 Jul 2011 10:20:59 +0000 Stephen Tindale http://climateanswers.info/?p=4855 Last night (Thursday, 21 July 2011), Prashant Vaze and I held a launch event for our book.]]> http://climateanswers.info/2011/07/22-july-2011-launch-of-repowering-communities-small-scale-solutions-for-large-scale-energy-problems/feed/ 1 http://climateanswers.info/2011/07/the-uks-energy-white-paper-and-renewables-roadmap/ http://climateanswers.info/2011/07/the-uks-energy-white-paper-and-renewables-roadmap/#comments Fri, 15 Jul 2011 09:00:58 +0000 Stephen Tindale http://climateanswers.info/?p=4846 This is a summary and analysis of UK's white paper on Electricity Market Reform and Renewables Roadmap, published this week.]]> http://climateanswers.info/2011/07/the-uks-energy-white-paper-and-renewables-roadmap/feed/ 0 http://climateanswers.info/2011/06/28-june-2011-uk-microgeneration-strategy/ http://climateanswers.info/2011/06/28-june-2011-uk-microgeneration-strategy/#comments Tue, 28 Jun 2011 12:57:46 +0000 Stephen Tindale http://climateanswers.info/?p=4836 http://climateanswers.info/2011/06/28-june-2011-uk-microgeneration-strategy/feed/ 0 http://climateanswers.info/2011/01/27-january-2010-france-offshore-wind-and-district-heating/ http://climateanswers.info/2011/01/27-january-2010-france-offshore-wind-and-district-heating/#comments Thu, 27 Jan 2011 12:59:03 +0000 Stephen Tindale http://climateanswers.info/?p=4571 http://climateanswers.info/2011/01/27-january-2010-france-offshore-wind-and-district-heating/feed/ 0 http://climateanswers.info/2010/11/repowering-communities-local-solutions-to-a-global-problem/ http://climateanswers.info/2010/11/repowering-communities-local-solutions-to-a-global-problem/#comments Tue, 02 Nov 2010 16:34:00 +0000 Prashant Vaze Stephen Tindale and Peter Meyer http://climateanswers.info/?p=4415 This is a paper that the three authors of the Repowering Communities book discussed with UK government officials and other experts at a seminar on 1 November 2010. It covers examples of which local governments are doing best on energy efficiency and renewables, and makes some recommendations.]]> http://climateanswers.info/2010/11/repowering-communities-local-solutions-to-a-global-problem/feed/ 0 http://climateanswers.info/2010/09/repowering-communities-case-study-district-heating-in-sheffield-and-aberdeen/ http://climateanswers.info/2010/09/repowering-communities-case-study-district-heating-in-sheffield-and-aberdeen/#comments Fri, 24 Sep 2010 13:25:37 +0000 Stephen Tindale http://climateanswers.info/?p=4306 UK district heating schemes is an idea whose time has come. Those in Sheffield and Aberdeen are discussed in this article.]]> http://climateanswers.info/2010/09/repowering-communities-case-study-district-heating-in-sheffield-and-aberdeen/feed/ 1 http://climateanswers.info/2010/09/community-owned-renewables-in-the-uk/ http://climateanswers.info/2010/09/community-owned-renewables-in-the-uk/#comments Wed, 08 Sep 2010 05:15:50 +0000 Stephen Tindale http://climateanswers.info/?p=4288 Community-owned renewables are quite rare in the UK, but extremely common – mainly wind farms – in Germany and Denmark. The UK is at least now moving in the right direction, albeit slowly.]]> http://climateanswers.info/2010/09/community-owned-renewables-in-the-uk/feed/ 0 http://climateanswers.info/2010/08/repowering-communities-case-study-freiburg/ http://climateanswers.info/2010/08/repowering-communities-case-study-freiburg/#comments Sat, 28 Aug 2010 15:12:25 +0000 Stephen Tindale http://climateanswers.info/?p=4239 Freiburg has a well-deserved reputation as Germany's green capital. It uses on about half of the energy that other European cities of 200,000 people do, and has become a world leader in solar. This article looks at what the city council has done to achieve this.]]> http://climateanswers.info/2010/08/repowering-communities-case-study-freiburg/feed/ 0