CarbonFree Reports

Another energy price spike and, like the last one in 2008, against the background of serious concerns over climate change. Ten years ago we published a series of reports containing research begun during the first major oil crisis in the 1970s. Most of the technology reviewed, especially large scale solar and electric vehicles have now finally found a market; others, such as energy storage remain a work in progress. The reports below can be downloaded for free.

CarbonFree Reports

Carbon Free Report

101 Ways to Kick The Carbon Habit

We are rapidly approaching two potential points of no return. The first is environmental: the point at which global warming starts feeding on itself and no matter how much emissions are reduced the world will continue to get warmer. The second is economic: the point at which the remaining fossil fuels become to scarce and expensive that they cannot be used to build the infrastructure required to power an economy using renewable sources of energy. […]

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Zero and Low Energy Building

a range of technologies and building techniques that could revolutionise the building industry worldwide and provide both architects and builders with a competitive edge as governments put in place legislation to reduce carbon emissions and energy dependency.  […]

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Householders As Energy Providers

Key factors that will influence the growth of small-scale generation technology that householders can use to convert natural energy into power for domestic use. It also analyses a range of technologies supplied by vendors who are already active in the alternative energy market, and considers how wider deployment of these technologies will impact on the energy market. […]

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Farming Renewable Energy

As power generation using renewable resources involves the gathering of energy over a wide geographic area, rather than a concentrated point such as a wellhead, an agricultural rather than an industrial model should be employed. In this report we examine a new model for the generation of energy – one based on farming rather than extraction […]

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Low Emission IT

Low emission computing technologies and initiatives and their impact on equipment manufacturers and organisations who intend to modify their IT infrastructure in order to minimise energy bills and to meet emissions targets. […]

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Driving in Neutral

The automobile addresses the consumer’s hierarchy of needs at two levels. It satisfies a secondary need by providing a means to travel and, as a visible display of the owner’s wealth and status, it also […]

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Storing Renewable Energy

This report examines the market for stored renewable energy and the companies that are already active in this area. It looks at a range of technologies that can be used to convert renewable energy for transportation or deferred use. […]