Zero emission cars are now a familiar sight, but there are currently almost no zero emission trucks on the road anywhere in the world. While cars are generally only used for 1.5 hours per day, trucks routinely operate for over 10 hours and sometimes much more with multiple shifts. Fleets that do operate small numbers…
A recent study from Aarhus University in Denmark has shown that student performance can be improved by up to 7% when the level of fresh air in the classrooms is increased. Now, what teacher or parent wouldn’t want that? Classrooms often have over 30 students and, if not properly ventilated, levels of CO2 can rise…
London is currently in breach of EU limits for nitrogen dioxide (NO2) in the air, which is linked to a range of respiratory illnesses. In July, King’s College London published a report which estimated the mortality burden of NO2 and PM2.5 pollution in London in 2010, with as much as 140,743 life-years lost. We clearly…
Some of my colleagues have lived in China and one is fluent in Mandarin, but my recent 10 day trip to meet companies and investors was my first experience of the country. I knew that China was a big market, but this did not prepare me for the vast scale I encountered. In the UK,…
Electricity generation from wind and solar PV is intermittent, so as the % of renewables increases, the UK will have a need for grid scale electricity storage, right? After all, storage already exists in the form of the 1.7GW Dinorwig pumped-storage hydroelectric plant in Wales and its sister facility. On the flip side, Germany with…