According to UK Power, a ‘typical’ home uses between 8,000 kWh and 17,000 kWh of energy a year for its heating and according to World Watch Institute data, buildings are responsible for the annual consumption of 40% of the world’s energy. The design of many buildings for living and working make them inefficient in termsContinue reading “How can we move to a sustainable future if we keep using energy-intensive heating and cooling?”
Category Archives: Environment
Electric Power Generation and consumption
Replacing fossil fuels with renewable and sustainable forms of energy, may be the greatest challenge of the 21st century and possibly of world history. Many engineers and scientists are working on developing the current technology that we have to harness the natural sources of energy to mitigate climate change. We are all aware of theContinue reading “Electric Power Generation and consumption”
The holes in the sky
We now know for sure that we are amid a climate crisis. So many different terminologies get thrown around, but do we know what any of them mean? Let us take the ozone layer. We know that the ozone layer is somewhere up there and that there is a hole that is slowly starting toContinue reading “The holes in the sky”
