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Composting: What You Might Not Know
Gardeners and horticulturalists have been encouraging waste plant material to break down to form nutrient-rich compost for centuries – and using it in pots to grow...
Fascinating Solar Facts
We tend to think of solar energy as a fairly recent invention, but the truth is solar power has been around for a very long time – at least 4.7 billion years in...
How Hydro Electric Power Works
One thing we’re seldom short of in Britain is rain, and as a result, viewed from the air, much of our country is a wonderful glinting tracery of silvery rivers and...
Interesting Information About Biomass Fuels
‘Biomass’ is a word that we have all become increasingly aware of over recent years as the need to do something to break our ongoing dependence...
The Energy Cost of Christmas
We all know about the financial cost of Christmas. Even if we manage to put it out of our minds for the duration of the actual festivities themselves, the arrival of...
The Facts About Light Bulbs
With everyone advising you to replace your existing light bulbs with low energy ones – and supermarkets regularly offering to sell them to you at mega-cut prices –...
The Real Cost of Food
We all know how much food costs. There’s that unavoidable moment at the supermarket checkout, as item after item travels along the rubberised route from trolley to...
Understand Fossil Fuels
We all know that fossil fuels have been largely cast as the villains in the environmental piece and that their carbon contribution in particular is something to...
Understanding Embedded Energy
Talk of embedded – or embodied – energy is something that anyone trying to do their bit to improve both environment and personal economics comes across sooner or...
Understanding Fuel Cells
Say the words “fuel cell” to most people and they’ll probably instantly conjure up an image of a modern and revolutionary high-tech device that holds the promise of...
What You Didn't Know About Batteries
At the heart of many renewable energy systems, there lies a battery of one sort or another but when we focus on whether we’re using photovoltaic or wind power to...
What You Might Not Know About Energy and Poo!
As a new scheme opens to supply 200 Oxfordshire households with gas made from what they recently flushed from their own toilets, a number of...
