All posts by Jack Marley
Who wins as energy bills soar? Oil and gas companies
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. Your annual energy bill could rise by another £800 in October according to UK electricity and gas market regulator Ofgem, which is set to lift the cap on energy prices (the maximum that energy suppliers can charge customers…
How to survive a heatwave
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. On colour-coded temperature charts, the Indian subcontinent is currently a sickly mauve. With summer still months away, an unusually intense heatwave is threatening millions of people there. Temperatures are expected to exceed 48°C on the border between Pakistan…
Can nuclear power secure a path to net zero?
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. What’s holding up the UK government’s strategy for securing the country’s energy supply in light of the Russia-Ukraine war and soaring market prices of oil and gas? According to The Guardian, a split between the prime minister, Boris…
Will war in Ukraine hasten the end of fossil fuels?
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. Four weeks have passed since Russian troops invaded Ukraine. To impede the onslaught of Vladimir Putin’s war machine, countries in the EU and elsewhere have announced measures to cut imports of fuel and energy from Russia, draining the…