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What is the problem?

What is the problem?

What is the problem?
There are 30 million vehicles on the road in the UK. Each mile a small petrol car travels releases 280 g of CO2 and for a small diesel car 190g of CO2 is released. Driving 2400 miles is the equivalent to the total carbon footprint of the average person in the developing world.
Figures from WRI

Biofuels

There is simply not enough agricultural land in the world to replace fossil fuels with biofuels. We will need to use them efficiently, as well as using other sources of power.

Cement

Production of cement accounts for nearly 5% of human global emissions. 1 tonne of cement production results in 960 kg of CO2

Solar Thermal

Hot water heating accounts for about 25% of domestic energy use.  In the Welsh climate solar energy can be used to heat water for about 8 months of the year. More...

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