Commentary
Articles for 2008
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The future isn't electric curtains
22/12/2008There's a lot of unrealistic talk about 'automated homes'. It just isn't likely that we'll all decide to automate our homes, particularly if it involves spending lots of money. What's more likely is that it will take years and we won't notice most of it.Let's look at the car. There ...
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Lightweight Medical joins Onzo
22/12/2008Lightweight Medical, the Glasgow-based product development company, and Onzo, have decided to pool their resources in a single company. As a result all the Lightweight Medical team has joined Onzo.Onzo was founded in February 2007 as a collaboration between Lightweight Medical, the ground-breaking sustainable design practice, Joel Hagan, who became ...
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Recovering energy
15/12/2008While most people have a good understanding of energy savings through buying more efficient appliances and insulating their home, there are further options. A step up from trying to prevent energy leaking from your house is to recover heat energy from air and water that flows out of the house ...
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Onzo at HomeCamp
08/12/2008"The icon on my phone changes from a smiley face to a gravestone so I know I've got to go up to the loft with the body bags". This isn't the confession of a serial killer. Andy Stanford-Clark is explaining how his mousetraps Twitter him when they catch a mouse. ...
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Behind the Speech
05/12/2008This week's Queen's Speech, setting out the government's legislative plans for the next parliamentary session, was delivered on Wednesday. It is no real surprise there were no proposals on energy in the Speech. Two major pieces of legislation, the Energy Bill and the Climate Change Bill, came into force only ...
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