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jeremy.leggett @ solarcentury.com
Also: www.twitter.com/JeremyLeggett
But please view any delays in responding, or even non-responses in intense periods at work, with a degree of sympathy. I’m doing my best to get the balance between home, day job, night jobs, and time-off right.
On Monday I attended the RSA Event at which you were a speaker. Today I read online about the Sole tiles at http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/alissa-walker/designerati/sole-power-tile-makes-adding-solar-easy
I know Solar Century broke the mold by producing solar roofing tiles, but it seems a shame that your company did not foresee the demand in Mediterranean countries for this type of solar pantile. Would you be able to produce these too or are they patented worldwide?
Thanks. Solarcentury is working on several solutions for Mediterranean roofs. So far as we know, we are not patent constrained. (Famous last words).
I recently read the Italian edition of your book “Half Gone”. I found it very interesting and clear, even if some topics probably need another book to be explored in details. I would like to thank you for the book and for your work on those two main topics, which inspired me and get me reflecting on what I can do to “save our world”. I wish to find ways to read your book publicy, and I will try to get more involved to get other people more involved, even if I am not an expert (but actually I don’t think this is a real obstacle: I’m from Computer Science, but I can use my brain and mind…). Any suggestions from you are welcome.
Thanks. I guess the first thing to do is to join the Italian branch of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil (www.aspo.org). There are people in that group with ideas about spreading the word.
All I can say is thank you for the article in the Independent today. Ive worked in the media and have been a driver in the motorsport industry so I am either an ‘eco’ hypocrite, or I have half a chance of seeing fact from PR.
I was brought up in rural Hampshire, my parents didnt describe our life as sustainable or self sufficient, they weren’t fashionable or responding to climate change, they were living in rural poverty, at least they did teach more valuable practical skills than my school did! I learnt as a child to live off the land and have half a chance of living without fossil fuels.
Your article today made me realise why I set up a Sustainable Living Centre in Aldershot - because people and businesses are not taking any notice of what is going to happen to their lives.
I really enjoyed reading your article in yesterday’s independent, and had to get in touch when I reached the end bit when you wrote “It will fall to 26-year-olds to clear up their mess. Few of them have ever found an oil-field, much less built a refinery”. To this point I’d like you to take a look at our press conference held at the Royal Society 31st July 2009 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1A8AeyoRN4
And for a general overview of the summit and global consultation, counsellors etc visit: http://www.oneyoungworld.com
I hope this is something you would like to cover in future and we welcome any enquiries you have.
Having just completed a BA in Environmental Studies, I took great pleasure in reading your interesting article in the Independent on Monday August 3rd. Is there any way I could volunteer for Solar Century? If I can help at all please get in touch.
Thanks, and possibly: please drop a line to enquiries@solarcentury.com.
You spoke to a group of us at Greenpeace in Auckland in 1991, and I decided then, that climate change was THE issue of my lifetime. I left door knocking for Greenpeace to start a solar water heating business with a business partner. The business was not very successful, and I have withdrawn from the market this year. It was however, a deeply satisfying experience, as was my time at Greenpeace, so thanks for your trustworthiness that inspired me into solar. Best wishes from Don Slater
Thanks Don. I remember Auckland 1991 well, working with Pene, Bunny, Kirsty and others. Bad lack with the entrepreneurial effort. Too many are going under in the current credit situation.
I was lucky to be volunteering at the Climate Change Clinic in Brighton and to hear Jeremy speak on financing the new green deal.
I am so inspired and have new things to think about and a new source of inspiration for which I am very grateful. Thank You.
I wanted my roof in south of France a solar century one. Now i am going for a strong winter with EDF nuclear power plants at 50% of their capacity due to bad maintanance. Ready for the carbon war and carbon tax in France!
Good luck Jeremy with your blog and visit insurance4renewables.com
Greetings to Aki
You, sir, are one of my heroes! I had been banging on about Peak Oil for so long that my friends started to avoid me. The Global Financial Crisis ‘08 gave me that missing third element to go alongside climate and energy. When I linked the three together all bar one of my mates quickly changed the subject to football… Then I found ‘Half Gone’. I’m so glad you wrote that book - I draw on it most days even now, 5 years after first publication, and frequently recommend it as an easily understood text that deals with the “triple crunch”. Thank you for speaking up.
Hi Jeremy
A good article in the Guardian yesterday (10/02). I hope you will do a follow up that raises awareness of just how dependent our food supply is dependent on oil - both domestic and imported production is massively oil dependent. An energy crisis equals a food crisis.
Sure you’re aware of this, but the public aren’t and they are under the illusion they will be able to carry on just popping down the supermarket come what may.
All the best
Somewhere in the recesses of my mind I recall an article illustrating a potential relationship between global population and “available energy”. I remember seeing such an article by a geologist which took a fairly long view of human history and how human expansion may be linked to available energy resources. Was it you?
I think you may mean my friend Colin Campbell, Quentin. A quick Google should do the trick….
Abusing the Moonbat (George Montboit) for saying the truth about solar and feed-in tarrifs? You’re an idiot. Even EU Referendum agrees with the Moonbat on this one!
In my response to George, I do not abuse him. I use the language of polite confrontation, not conflict. George, it has to be said, often doesn’t hesitate to call someone a deluded fool where he could merely point out that he holds a very different point of view. As for anonymous blog trailers like yourself, abuse and conflict language often seem to be the default mode, sadly.
Yes, noted in the blog string David. Two main points: solar works well in strategic harness with other renewables ….you mix and match with other members of the family to get baseload, and peakload. Also, microgeneration can smooth out the load on the grid. Much of the solar generated by day in the average home is used right there in the home.