top of page
For A Better Planet


Your Car as your home back up, Tariff optimiser, Grid income provider and even Personal Transport.
The new perspective on personal transport. Your car can be much, much more. People understandably measure car ownership costs and benefits...
Alan Baker
May 15, 20235 min read


Iron Ore is 94% of all global mining at 3,040,000,000 tonnes. Lithium is 0.00003% or 97,500 tonnes.
A surprising reality check on mining. Rob Llewellyn of Everything Electric fame You Tube video, (minute 2.40 to minute 7.00) puts a data...
Alan Baker
Apr 15, 20231 min read


The Future of Battery Recycling? A low energy chemical process to recover battery materials.
At present the recovery of battery metals generally follows a long established process of shipping/transporting ´scrap´ to massive high...
Alan Baker
Mar 20, 20232 min read


Lilium (electric) Jet Air Taxi reaches 250kph.
Article here 5 minute read Lilium Air Mobility. Web Site. The VTOL craft took a big step forward in its target 2025 full certification...
Alan Baker
Mar 12, 20231 min read


Sucking CO2 from our air. Useful? Credible? Distraction?
A New Capture Method. Transforming CO2 to Bicarbonate of Soda. 5 minute Read. Click Here This technology is interesting, it is very small...
Alan Baker
Mar 9, 20231 min read


We're burning 100m barrels of oil a day and rising. Our addiction to oil is growing not falling.
Painful listening. A chilling reality check on the realities of global oil production, refining and supply. HC Insider Podcast Feb 2023...
Alan Baker
Feb 21, 20231 min read


Tesla and Ford. Tesla´s Project Highland & Fords Highland Park. Do coincidences happen?
Tesla is by most if not all metrics demonstrates global manufacturing excellence, arguably bar none. They turn out vehicles typically in...
Alan Baker
Feb 18, 20232 min read


Bigger, Better, Simpler & more Power. A new deep water contra rotating wind turbine. One to follow.
Capturing wind energy at sea is advancing at pace in both enhancing and optimising existing designs, particularly the ubiquitous 3 bladed...
Alan Baker
Feb 13, 20232 min read


UK Fly Zero. Aviation in 2035. Go hydrogen, go electrons?
Hydrogen will likely win this race for medium to long haul . But do keep in mind the first priority with hydrogen should be to change...
Alan Baker
Feb 8, 20231 min read


BP scales back climate targets of reducing emissions as profits hit record
As regular readers will have picked up upon there is a common theme among oil and gas companies. That of using their money, influence and...
Alan Baker
Feb 7, 20232 min read


Sand versus Lithium Nickel and Cobalt. One of many emerging Energy Storage/Battery technologies.
One of the emerging options to store energy is using SAND as its core storage materials. Any excess electrical energy, previously just...
Alan Baker
Feb 7, 20231 min read


Glaciers are melting- old news. Melting at the wrong rate- new news. Displacing 33 mill- BAD News
There are around 200,000 Glaciers around the world. At the present rate we´ll loose around half by the end of this century What I hadn´t...
Alan Baker
Feb 5, 20232 min read


Hydrogen. Make it from green energy and water. (Not Methane and 800 degC of hydrocarbon heat)
Sept 2024. From my learning over the past 18 months my opinions on the scale of its future use, likely cost and use for energy security...
Alan Baker
Feb 5, 20233 min read


The best alternative to Carbon Capture. Stop Burning Oil, Gas and Coal.
I am increasingly aware that the use of ´Net Zero´ claims based on Carbon Capture and Carbon Credits that lack credibility. I used to...
Alan Baker
Jan 25, 20234 min read


Wave Power. The biggest free battery on Planet Earth?
Jan Skjoldhammer Podcast A Nearshore solution needing no expensive gearbox. Click here. A great you tube video on all technologies and...
Alan Baker
Jan 23, 20233 min read


Lets ´GO GREEN´. For the Grandchildren
Most seniors think of green energy and transport in terms of more expense and inconvenience. Even though costs are reducing and ´cool´...
Alan Baker
Jan 20, 20232 min read


Politicians putting energy transition first? Actions suggest not.
The more I read about political energy and sustainability decisions, with a few exceptions, the more I despair. The Politicians ...
Alan Baker
Jan 16, 20232 min read


The Expanding Methane Permafrost Conundrum
Methane is exceptionally bad for the atmosphere, temperature rises and climate. Over 20 years its 84 times worse than Carbon Dioxide,...
Alan Baker
Jan 16, 20231 min read


Unleash clean hydrogen
Update. Hydrogen is to anyone who looks at the data just not suitable for mainstream energy use. It presently is still over 99.9 produced...
Alan Baker
Jan 10, 20232 min read


We've put 300 million years of carbon capture back into our atmosphere in only 200.
I think the headline message is a simple response to climate dtractors, propoganda from Oil Companies, Oil States & Governments. Burning...
Alan Baker
Dec 28, 20221 min read
bottom of page