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Tesla and Ford. Tesla´s Project Highland & Fords Highland Park. Do coincidences happen?

Alan Baker

Feb 18, 20232 min read

Tesla and Ford. Tesla´s Project Highland & Fords Highland Park. Do coincidences happen?

Tesla is by most if not all metrics demonstrates global manufacturing excellence, arguably bar none. They turn out vehicles typically in...

Bigger, Better, Simpler & more Power. A new deep water contra rotating wind turbine. One to follow.

Alan Baker

Feb 13, 20232 min read

Bigger, Better, Simpler & more Power. A new deep water contra rotating wind turbine. One to follow.

Capturing wind energy at sea is advancing at pace in both enhancing and optimising existing designs, particularly the ubiquitous 3 bladed...

UK Fly Zero. Aviation in 2035. Go hydrogen, go electrons?

Alan Baker

Feb 8, 20231 min read

UK Fly Zero. Aviation in 2035. Go hydrogen, go electrons?

Hydrogen will likely win this race for medium to long haul . But do keep in mind the first priority with hydrogen should be to change...

BP scales back climate targets of reducing emissions as profits hit record

Alan Baker

Feb 7, 20232 min read

BP scales back climate targets of reducing emissions as profits hit record

As regular readers will have picked up upon there is a common theme among oil and gas companies. That of using their money, influence and...

Sand versus Lithium Nickel and Cobalt. One of many emerging Energy Storage/Battery technologies.

Alan Baker

Feb 7, 20231 min read

Sand versus Lithium Nickel and Cobalt. One of many emerging Energy Storage/Battery technologies.

One of the emerging options to store energy is using SAND as its core storage materials. Any excess electrical energy, previously just...

Glaciers are melting- old news. Melting at the wrong rate- new news. Displacing 33 mill- BAD News

Alan Baker

Feb 5, 20232 min read

Glaciers are melting- old news. Melting at the wrong rate- new news. Displacing 33 mill- BAD News

There are around 200,000 Glaciers around the world. At the present rate we´ll loose around half by the end of this century What I hadn´t...

Hydrogen. Make it from green energy and water. (Not Methane and 800 degC of hydrocarbon heat)

Alan Baker

Feb 5, 20233 min read

Hydrogen. Make it from green energy and water. (Not Methane and 800 degC of hydrocarbon heat)

Sept 2024. From my learning over the past 18 months my opinions on the scale of its future use, likely cost and use for energy security...

The best alternative to Carbon Capture. Stop Burning Oil, Gas and Coal.

Alan Baker

Jan 25, 20234 min read

The best alternative to Carbon Capture. Stop Burning Oil, Gas and Coal.

I am increasingly aware that the use of ´Net Zero´ claims based on Carbon Capture and Carbon Credits that lack credibility. I used to...

Wave Power. The biggest free battery on Planet Earth?

Alan Baker

Jan 23, 20233 min read

Wave Power. The biggest free battery on Planet Earth?

Jan Skjoldhammer Podcast A Nearshore solution needing no expensive gearbox. Click here. A great you tube video on all technologies and...

Alan Baker

Jan 20, 20232 min read

Lets ´GO GREEN´. For the Grandchildren

Most seniors think of green energy and transport in terms of more expense and inconvenience. Even though costs are reducing and ´cool´...

Politicians putting energy transition first? Actions suggest not.

Alan Baker

Jan 16, 20232 min read

Politicians putting energy transition first? Actions suggest not.

The more I read about political energy and sustainability decisions, with a few exceptions, the more I despair. The Politicians ...

The Expanding Methane Permafrost Conundrum

Alan Baker

Jan 16, 20231 min read

The Expanding Methane Permafrost Conundrum

Methane is exceptionally bad for the atmosphere, temperature rises and climate. Over 20 years its 84 times worse than Carbon Dioxide,...

Alan Baker

Jan 10, 20232 min read

Unleash clean hydrogen

Update. Hydrogen is to anyone who looks at the data just not suitable for mainstream energy use. It presently is still over 99.9 produced...

We've put 300 million years of carbon capture back into our atmosphere in only 200.

Alan Baker

Dec 28, 20221 min read

We've put 300 million years of carbon capture back into our atmosphere in only 200.

I think the headline message is a simple response to climate dtractors, propoganda from Oil Companies, Oil States & Governments. Burning...

Simply stop burning hydrocarbons. Our atmosphere - the free CO2 sewer has massive consequences.

Alan Baker

Dec 23, 20221 min read

Simply stop burning hydrocarbons. Our atmosphere - the free CO2 sewer has massive consequences.

Hydro carbons will always be cheaper while the atmosphere is available as, essentially a free of charge sewer. The extreme weather...

Oil States, Oil Companies and Governments will not give up their revenues without people push.

Alan Baker

Dec 23, 20221 min read

Oil States, Oil Companies and Governments will not give up their revenues without people push.

Fossil fuels will always be cheaper while the atmosphere is available to them as a free sewer. Oil states particularly have no alternate...