Monthly Archives: July 2006

IISD colleague interviews Amory Lovins on nuclear

A colleague of mine from the IISD’s sustainable development internship programme is now working with a corporate responsibility NGO called Corporate Knights. He’s recently done an interview with Amory Lovins, the energy-efficiency guru of Natural Capitalism fame. The questions are mainly about the Ontario market but check out this fantastic quote on the advantages of microgeneration over nuclear:

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Energy reviewed at last

It’s all kicking off. The government’s energy review is due to be published later today and then the country’s worst kept secret will be official. Nuclear power will continue to play a significant part in the UK’s electricity supply.

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Cameron gets his turbine

This looks interesting. A week before the government is expected to release their energy review (and give the nod to a round of replacement nuclear power stations), the Tories have come out and said that microgeneration is the way forward. Like everything the Tories say these days, it sounds good but the devil is definitely in the details. How exactly do they propose to promote microgeneration? How quickly would they fall back to the nuclear “last resort”?

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Independence Day!

I just handed in my thesis.

Behavioural Responses to Photovoltaics in the UK Domestic Sector

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