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Poyry – Potential and costs of district heating networks report
Brilliant report. Pöyry finds that, where DHNs can achieve high penetration in built up urban areas, the carbon abatement costs of various district heating options are more cost effective than stand alone renewable technologies.
But the report indicates that unless there is a shift in the present [...]

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The National Renewable Ammonia Architecture Spring 2009 | Stranded Wind
A quickly evolving study into the requirements for achieving sustainable industrial agriculture using ammonia fertiliser

Andris Piebalgs : it may have peaked.
"When public office holders approach the ends of their terms, they sometimes feel less constrained by political correctness. That's precisely what seems to be happening with [...]

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(Bit off topic)

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I hadn’t had any contact emails via the blog in a while so I checked to see if anything was wrong. Turns out the email account I was using had expired in May. Sincere apologies to anyone who wrote to us here at Carbon Limited and didn’t receive a reply. It’s all fixed now so [...]

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I’m not just not blogging. I’m also on holiday. Back to the office on the 22nd and looking forward to getting back into the swing then.

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Phil was musing about whether his blogging activities might undermine his employer’s brand. On the topic of brand erosion, I’d like to point out that Bill Price, one of the Directors at engineers WSP, plays bass in a band called Wild Sex Party. Relatively speaking, I think you’re in the clear Phil – write whatever [...]

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When it comes to carbon from energy and the built environment, misdirected government measures (however good the intention) are now likely to do more harm than good. Eye-catching initiatives, if and when they fail, provide justification to cynics and people whose interests lie in maintaining the status quo. And more importantly the measures waste time [...]

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