The past week saw reports of at least four of the country’s leading green activists accepting that nuclear power may have a significant role to play if we are to avoid runaway climate change. Concerns over safety issues, build-up of radioactive wastes and the proliferation of nuclear weapons were realistically balanced against the environmental impacts [...]

The UK National Grid has teamed up with 2OC, a company, which has developed “geo-pressure” technology to utilize the enormous pressure inside the UK gas pipelines, which supply UK homes. The first of several planned schemes will see the implementation of small turbines inside the gas network, to produce 20MW of clean energy by 2010 [...]