With the high levels of air pollution in London, the Mayor has introduced Anti-Pollution Squads to help combat the cities air pollution levels and reduce the risk of breaching EU safety limits on Nitrogen Dioxide.
A wind turbine, technically known as an Aerofoil Powered Generator, is a device that converts kinetic energy from the wind into electrical power. They are the result of over a millennium of windmill development and modern engineering. Today’s turbines are available in a variety of vertical and horizontal axis types.
York Hospital have recently been listed as finalists of a building industry award for the Retrofit Project of the Year after completion of their refurbished energy centre last year. The £4.6 million project is set to drastically reduce the York Teaching Hospital Foundation Trust’s carbon footprint while saving them around £60,000 a month.
Gatwick Airport is the second largest airport in the UK and the most efficient single runway airport in the world. It receives more than 40 million passengers a year on short and long-haul journeys to over 200 destinations across 90 countries.
A recent study, published in the scientific journal, Nature Climate Change, has identified the risk that climate change, as a consequence of carbon emissions, will continue to advance for thousands of years unless drastic changes are made to global energy strategies.