How ‘eco’ are Ecotricity’s plans for Green Gas Mills?

    Last week Ecotricity, who supply my household electricity and gas, announced ambitious plans for Green Gas Mills which would produce gas from grass. The pitch is that green gas could replace or displace fracking (the environmentalist’s bete noir) and produce virtually carbon-free gas without affecting food production and by the way, help produce…

The price of food

We come back to the price of food every now and again in this blog.  It’s not a subject I know that much about but I’m happy to go along with the general consensus that we have cheap food and that food has become cheaper over the last 40 years or so. I read in…

Turbulent turning turbines

Last week the coalition government came out with their energy policy proposals.  It can be seen as a small victory for the Liberal Democrats in the government that the worst excesses of Conservative climate-scepticism were pushed aside.  There will not be a new dash for climate-changing gas but a dash for renewables and nuclear. We…