Sustainable Energy

Rian Patel “Wind farms couldn’t pull the skin off a rice pudding,” Boris Johnson, then Mayor of London, said in 2013. Seven years on and a lot has changed. Johnson, as Prime Minister, now proclaims his desire to see the UK as the “Saudi Arabia of Wind Power”, having...

Impact cuts through the jargon to give you all you need to know about the science that matters.  On the 3rd of February at 2.39pm(GMT) the German Chancellor Angela Merkel pushed the switch to turn on the billion euro Wendelstien 7-X Stellarator. This contraption is a huge metal doughnut...

The results of the two SU referenda on ‘no support for marking boycotts’ and sustainable energy were announced today, but neither received enough votes to become policy. In the marking boycott referendum, 1199 students voted yes, 600 students voted no and there were 685 abstentions. 2014 students voted to...

A referendum on the ‘sustainable energy solutions’ motion, which was proposed at last year’s final Union Council, is due to take place in the week commencing Monday 20th October.  The motion, which has been rephrased in the form of a question, reads: “Do you think that the Students’ Union...