Born the son of a coal miner in South Yorkshire in the '60s, I grew up in a region then dominated by deep mining and heavy industry.
I sometimes comment that I was the “son of a Panda” but of course that was the coal dust around my father’s eyes.
One of the greatest achievements of the past century has been the democratisation of comfort and mobility - to the extent that here in the UK we now treat them as something that we enjoy by right, like education and …
The philosopher, Kierkegaard declared: Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. In energy this is particularly pertinent: How can we plan for an unknown future, especially given the uncertainties of a complex socio-techno-economic system, and …
