This website is not being maintained. An archived version of this blog article is here Solar farms are getting bigger! Back in 2016, the biggest solar farm in the Netherlands opened with a much-heralded power capacity of 6 megawatts – "enough electricity to supply all 1,700 households on the island". Fast forward to December 2019…
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The UK’s solar crash and the Dutch solar boom
This website is not being maintained. An archived version of this blog article is here Europe’s rate of installing solar power capacity has more than doubled in the past year. The leading countries in that surge to install over 16 gigawatts of new solar are Spain, Germany, and – coming third, a massive achievement given…
Could we really double the amount of woodland? Where would we put it all?
This website is not being maintained. An archived version of this blog article is here Among all the debate about carbon capture and new technology to reduce CO2 emissions, one answer is popping up increasingly often: trees. This beautifully-filmed 3 minute video with Greta Thunberg and George Monbiot gives the big idea: And the numbers…