energy

The Doha Gateway: Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair

by cindy December 11, 2012
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Dear Negotiators…

by cindy November 30, 2012

Guest Post by Sam Sharp, a member of the NZ Youth Delegation in Doha  This morning I stood with 40 other youth from all around the world to represent the voices of 1.5 billion youth who are not directly represented here at the climate change negotiations in Doha. We stood for one and a half hours, [...]

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Grand final: Sustainable Energy NZ #16 – counting up the dollars and sense

by Oliver Bruce November 19, 2012

Welcome to the sixteenth and final post in the Sustainable Energy without the Hot Air – A New Zealand Perspective series. To recap, we started with a bit of energy accounting and worked out that Kiwi’s use around 88 kWh/d/p (methodology for what the kWh/d/p means is here), and that of this, about 33kWh/d/p came from [...]

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Sustainable Energy NZ #15: Keeping it lean and mean – a summary of energy use.

by Oliver Bruce November 13, 2012

Welcome to the fiftheenth post in the Sustainable Energy without the Hot Air – A New Zealand Perspective series. After our previous posts on hydro power, geothermal and wind (and a summary on the big three), solar, biofuels, marine and waste energy, we’re now attempting to answer the question: How can we achieve a BIG reduction in our personal and national energy consumption? Remember, as before, the [...]

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Sustainable Energy NZ #14 – how much energy hides in food and ‘stuff’

by Oliver Bruce November 8, 2012

Welcome to the fourteenth post in the Sustainable Energy without the Hot Air – A New Zealand Perspective series. After our previous posts on hydro power, geothermal and wind (and a summary on the big three), solar, biofuels, marine and waste energy, we’re now looking at answering the question: How can we achieve a BIG reduction in our personal and national energy consumption? Remember, as before, the units are [...]

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Sustainable Energy NZ #13 – making light work of savings at home

by Oliver Bruce November 7, 2012

Welcome to the thirteenth post in the Sustainable Energy without the Hot Air – A New Zealand Perspective series. After our previous posts on hydro power, geothermal and wind (and a summary on the big three), solar, biofuels, marine and waste energy, we’re now looking at answering the question: How can we achieve a BIG reduction in our personal and national energy consumption? We covered the breakdown [...]

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Sustainable Energy NZ #12 – do Kiwis have to be flightless?

by Oliver Bruce November 6, 2012

Welcome to the twelfth post in the Sustainable Energy without the Hot Air – A New Zealand Perspective series. We’ll be changing gears here from our previous posts on hydro power, geothermal and wind (and a summary on the big three), solar, biofuels, marine and waste energy. From here on out we’ll be attempting to answer the question: How can we achieve a BIG reduction in our [...]

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Sustainable Energy NZ #11: How can we make road transport more efficient?

by Oliver Bruce November 5, 2012

Welcome to the eleventh post in the Sustainable Energy without the Hot Air – A New Zealand Perspective series. After our previous posts on hydro power, geothermal and wind (and a summary on the big three), solar, biofuels, marine and waste energy, we’re now looking at answering the question: How can we achieve a BIG reduction in our personal and national energy consumption? We covered [...]

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Sustainable Energy NZ #10 – How can we achieve a big reduction in our personal and national energy consumption?

by Oliver Bruce November 1, 2012

Welcome to the tenth post in the Sustainable Energy without the Hot Air – A New Zealand Perspective series. We’ll be changing gears here from our previous posts on hydro power, geothermal and wind (and a summary on the big three), solar, biofuels, marine and waste energy. From here on out we’ll be attempting to answer the [...]

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Sustainable Energy NZ #9 – Here Comes the Sum – what are renewables worth?

by Oliver Bruce October 30, 2012

Welcome to the ninth post in the Sustainable Energy without the Hot Air – A New Zealand Perspective series. Today we’re summarising the numbers on the various renewable energy options in New Zealand (and finding they’re more than sufficient!). For the background to the work please our introductory post here. Also check out our earlier posts on the potential [...]

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