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NZ emissions trading scheme announced

by Gareth September 20, 2007

Details of the government’s planned emissions trading scheme (ETS) have been announced. Scoop has all the government speeches and press releases. I’m reading them at the moment, and will comment more later, but here are some highlights: Foresters will receive the full value of carbon credits on new growth (from 1/1/2008) in post-1990 forests. Agriculture [...]

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Electric cars or coal-to-diesel?

by Gareth August 16, 2007

The carbon neutral flagship of New Zealand’s power sector, Meridian Energy, has announced that it’s planning to start trials on electric cars next year [Stuff, Herald] . CEO Keith Turner also announced a new service specialising in helping to design and build energy efficient homes, and a new environmentally friendly Wellington headquarters. Discussing the car [...]

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Mummy, can I have one of these, please?

by Gareth July 6, 2007

Great article in Wired on new battery technologies being developed for electric vehicles leads me to discover something I really, really want (but can’t afford): the new Lightning GT. A British-built electric supercar. 700hp through motors in each wheel, 0-60mph in about 4 seconds, 250 mile range, and thanks to Altairnano’s nanotech re-engineering of lithium [...]

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