“I wish to make nine points in my response to George Monbiot’s latest round in our disagreement about the importance of solar photovoltaics (PV) and the UK government’s upcoming feed-in tariffs”. So I write in the Guardian.
Solarcentury
The company I founded in 1998 to design and supply solar energy solutions for the built environment. Solarcentury
Solar Aid
The charity I founded in 2006, with a 5% contribution of Solarcentury profits, to help deliver solar lighting to Africa. Solar Aid
Archive for March, 2010
Is modern energy helping humans develop an empathic civilisation?
March 6, 2010 Change for Good, Clean Energy, ClimateJeremy Rifkin’s book The Empathic Civilisation shows that the disconnect between our vision for the world and our ability to realize that vision lies in the current state of human consciousness. The very way our brains are structured disposes us to a way of feeling, thinking, and acting in the world that is no longer entirely relevant to the new environments we have created for ourselves.” (more…)
“Solar panels are not fashion accessories”.
March 3, 2010 Clean Energy, CommentariesGeorge Monbiot’s attack on solar energy and the government’s “cash-back” solar photovoltaic (PV) market-building scheme paints a distorted picture of the industry I work in, and government policy towards it (Are we really going to let ourselves be duped into this solar panel rip-off?, 2 March). So I argue in the Guardian.
Monbiot vs Leggett on solar PV: all the arguments in one place.
March 30, 2010 Clean Energy, CommentariesThe full annotated log of my series of exchanges on solar in the Guardian.
Tags: Solar PV