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Home › Archive for Energy efficiency

Category: Energy efficiency

Hydrogen, Carbon capture and storage and Anaerobic digestion

Posted on January 4, 2021

Hydrogen and CCS In my last blog, I wrote how electric vehicles were considerably more efficient than those  powered by hydrogen. However, hydrogen now seems to be the magic solution to everything, a carbon free way of powering internal combustion …

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Tagged with: Hydrogen vs Electric vehicles

Electric cars and vehicle to grid energy transfer

Posted on April 4, 2019

In writing a section recently on Electric Vehicles for this website “sustainability-in-practice”, the experts I talked to kept emphasising how battery electric vehicles (BEVs) are going to improve city air quality, our grid and the efficiency of renewable power generation. …

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Tagged with: clean city air, energy storage, vehicle to grid

Improving the energy efficiency of a traditional stone house – second edition

Posted on September 19, 2014

Now that the energy refurbishment of our house is complete, I have brought my report up to date, 2015. While the house is much more cosy and energy use is a third what it was in 1998, the work would …

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Tagged with: Home, refurbishment

Old House Eco Handbook

Posted on September 19, 2014

A fuller summary of this book, subtitled “A practical guide to retrofitting for energy-efficiency and sustainability”, by Marianne Suhr and Roger Hunt, in association with the Society for the protection of ancient buildings, will be written soon. If your house …

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Tagged with: Review
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