I make complicated subjects in the fields of technology, energy, the environment and sustainability, media, and business easy to understand.
Combatting deforestation in the rainforest with Solar Community Hubs
I interviewed and ghost-wrote this piece on how Dell is working to improve sustainability in the Amazon rain forest.
Wildfires, heatwaves, floods, droughts and extreme weather increasingly lead news headlines. Climate scientists have long warned that these life-threatening events are the result of climate change caused in part by deforestation. And, after years of dispute, world leaders at COP26 almost unilaterally pledged to end deforestation by 2030.
Supporting local and indigenous communities l...
How to embrace innovation and keep on dancing
Corporate innovation: ‘Can elephants dance to Billie Eilish?’ – from E.ON’s Energy Innovation Days 2021
Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? is the title of Louis Gerstner's memoir published in 2003, which details how he turned around IBM from a lumbering giant facing corporate extinction and instilling a renewed and reinvigorated culture. It's only natural that today's corporations are looking to build on Gerstner's foundation.
At E.ON's Energy Innovation Days 2021 conference, four ground-breakin...
Could trading water on the stock market actually be good for the environment?
Last year, for the first time, it became possible to trade water on Wall Street through futures contracts. Normally reserved for commodities like oil or precious metals, water became the latest asset to join the stock market. But how could this practice impact the planet?
The trading in the future prices of highly-prized commodities, where buyers agree to purchase an asset at a set date in the future for an agreed price, began in Japan in the seventeenth century with the trading in rice futur...
Island paradise: an Anglesey house that became a stunning family home
How a large Victorian house provides a striking backdrop for a young family with stunning views across to the coast
Not many people buy a kitchen before they’ve found the house to put it in, but no one who knows designer Mairead Turner and her restaurateur husband Robin Hodgson is surprised to hear this is what they did. When they fall in love with a beautiful pre-loved bargain they snap it up and work out where it’s going to go later.
“I spotted these kitchen units years ago, while on one of...
Clean energy authority Britt Ide on why she enjoys sitting on a global board and how she is powering up more women for energy boards
Britt Ide reveals why she was so excited to join her first international Advisory Board and how she is helping other women in the energy industry to follow in her footsteps.
Palestinian Engineers Set For Huge Pay Outs Once Sale Of Israeli Tech Firm Completes
Once U.S.-based chip maker NVIDIA completes its $6.9 billion acquisition of Israeli tech company Mellanox in the next few months, Palestinian engineers contracted to work for Mellanox as reported by Reuters are set to share a $3.5 million payout.
With a shortage of engineers in Israel, the growing pool of talented Palestinian engineers is well placed to fill any gaps in Israel's burgeoning tech sector and Israeli firms are offering stock options to demonstrate to potential Palestinian contrac...
What will tomorrow’s world look like? | E.ON
Reporting on a session at an energy conference
Ultrasonic sensor solution for monitoring abrasion in long-distance pipelines
Overview
Mines often rely on hundreds of kilometres of pipeline to transport their assets. These long-distance pipelines are highly susceptible to abrasion due to the nature of the slurry, tailings and other rock material they carry. Left untreated, abrasion can cause cracks and leaks that are costly to repair and can cause human health risks and environmental damage.
Typically, expensive Non-Destructive Testing inspections are carried out by contractors or trained staff who manually measure ...
5 Strategies For Attracting Investors To Your Business
Entrepreneurs and start-ups on the lookout for venture capital opportunities or when building up to the perfect pitch will undoubtedly be tirelessly working on making their business, not just a viable option for investors, but an attractive one that will yield substantial returns. But attracting investors to your business isn’t always straightforward. What can you consistently work on that will benefit your business and make it stand out to investors? And what will make them want to invest th...
Jaguar Land Rover Makes Breakthrough In Cure For Motion Sickness
Car manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover has made a breakthrough in the battle to cure motion sickness. The Tata Motors'-owned brand has pioneered a new technique that could reduce cases of motion sickness by at least 60%.
Drivers are less likely to suffer from motion sickness, but passengers are susceptible to it, so the move towards driverless cars has revved up the funding and interest in finding a cure for this unpleasant condition.
Using a variety of test vehicles and other Jaguar Land Rover f...
Using asset data and machine learning to drive down operational emissions
Overview
Oil and gas companies must safely and significantly reduce their CO₂ emissions to assist governments globally in achieving their net-zero targets – this directional change has to be balanced with the desire and requirement to satisfy global energy demands and production safety.
This innovative machine-learning software platform uses operational data, plant configurations, installed capacity, current production performance and operating model data to dynamically present contextualised...
A kitchen makeover I styled and wrote up
A beautiful kitchen makeover I styled and wrote up for Kitchens Bedrooms and Bathrooms magazine
E-Mobility for trucks and buses: Batteries, hydrogen or both?
Powering buses and trucks
Hydrogen fuel cells and electric batteries are the two main contenders to take the place of petrol and diesel in powering trucks and buses in the future, so how does each stack up?
The race is on to find the most efficient and also the most sustainable method of powering networks of passenger buses and the road haulage industry.
Our virtual Energy Innovation conference was a three-day virtual conference where more than 50 entrepreneurs, academics and experts from dif...
Art Meets Technology: Dalí Artwork Now Available As Themes On Huawei Phones
From melting clocks to a lobster telephone and elephants with stilt legs, Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dalí painted and sculpted dreamlike works with such an intense photographic realism that it begged one universal question among admirers: what on Earth is going on?
Inspired by the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, Dalí explored the relationship between our subconscious and our conscious minds to create an altered view of the world, blurring the lines between the actual and the imaginary (s...
How UK firms are using Estonia’s e-Residency scheme to operate as EU firms post-Brexit
Ott Vatter, managing director of the Republic of Estonia’s e-Residency programme, which enables business people to establish and manage an EU-based company paperlessly from anywhere in the world, explains how UK businesses can benefit from the service after Brexit
Can you explain how e-Residency works?
e-Residency is an Estonian Government programme. It’s a transnational identity that is issued by the Estonian police and border guard. Estonia has had a digital identity programme for fifteen o...