About this blog

This blog is about our energy and greenhouse gas emissions, and potential ways to reduce them. There are three reasons why saving energy is a good thing:

• Saving money - although in practice energy is remarkably cheap.
• Improving energy security - an increasing proportion of our fuel is imported from politically interesting places like Russia and Saudi Arabia, and there is increasing demand from growing economies such as China
• Reducing greenhouse gas emissions leading to climate change.

No matter which of these motivates you most, it is possible to change - but it is hard to know how to change and what we should be lobbying our MPs to change at the national level. These are the issues I explore in this blog.

This blog is mostly about personal choices such as:

• Should I buy LED light bulbs? 
• What difference does it make if I go to the pub or read a book? (Carbon emissions from leisure activities)
• Am I losing more heat through my roof, my walls or my windows? (Simple home heat loss model)
• How green is my charcoal barbecue?

and issues in business and commerce such as:

• Why do shops leave their doors open?
• What is the point in carbon accounts?
• Energy saving in business - Cambridge City Council

and finally there are posts about national energy strategy such as:

• Could tidal energy supply UK electricity needs? (Biased reporting: tidal power sensation)
• Why is energy storage such a problem? (Large scale energy storage options)
• Why do we pay wind farms to stop generating?

If you have disagree with me, or have some related knowledge or experience to share then please add your comments to my posts. You will be very welcome. However, I may delete any comments that I judge are not relevant or are merely advertising.