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5 easy ways to cut YOUR carbon footprint

May 30, 2022

To avoid the worst effects of the climate emergency, we will have to reduce our individual emissions to zero in the next 28 or so years. In this blog, I will focus on some of the practical and pragmatic things that I think are relatively easy to achieve.

By Stephen Ferguson
8 MIN READ
The Carbon Cost of Everything

Embedded Emissions: The Carbon Cost of EveryTHING.

April 13, 2022

Manufacturing anything involves taking random combinations of atoms (usually manifested as a raw material) and processing them into a useful product. This takes huge amounts of energy, and causes lots of emissions.

By Stephen Ferguson
7 MIN READ

Heating And Global Warming: Are We Burning Down The House?

April 13, 2022

Heating is the most significant carbon-emitting activity in buildings. Accounting for the coal, oil and gas used directly and indirectly via electricity generation for heating, 65% of all heating equipment produces greenhouse gases in some form. While the trend over the past decade is moving in the right direction, the damage has been done.

By Chad Ghalamzan
9 MIN READ

Binging? Diving into the Metaverse? Buying NFTs? Do you even care about the environment bro?

April 12, 2022

The Uptime Institute calculated that each time Cristiano Ronaldo posts a picture to Instagram, it takes 36 MWh to distribute it to all his followers. That’s the amount of power consumed by ten British households on average in a year.

By Chad Ghalamzan
5 MIN READ

Have we grown too comfortable with air conditioning?

April 12, 2022

Air conditioning is the fastest-growing energy segment in building end-use. Through upstream emissions at the power generation source, their rise in usage contributes to global warming that pushes us to seek chilled relief. How do we set the thermostat to sustainable?

By Chad Ghalamzan
6 MIN READ
Carbon cost of a burger

Engineering the low-carbon, cruelty-free, lab-grown hamburger of the future

February 4, 2022

87% of the greenhouse gas emissions from a burger come from the beef. Find out how simulation is helping to design the cruelty-free, low-carbon, lab-grown burger of the future.

By Stephen Ferguson
8 MIN READ

Transportation emissions and the climate crisis

January 11, 2022

Transportation emissions add 8 billion tons of carbon dioxide to our atmosphere each year. Going green is the only way to prevent catastrophic climate change.

By Chad Ghalamzan
9 MIN READ
keeping the lights on in a climate emergency

Keeping the lights on in a Climate Emergency

December 1, 2021

In the midst of climate emergency 63% of our electricity still comes from burning carbon dioxide belching fossil fuels, that kill millions of people every year. We investigate how simulation is helping to deliver a low-carbon future.

By Stephen Ferguson
12 MIN READ

Engineers caused the Climate Emergency. Only engineering simulation can save us from it.

November 3, 2021

Since the industrial revolution human civilisation has become increasingly dependent on the combustion of large quantities of fossil fuels. Engineering a future without them is the biggest challenge our species has ever faced.

By Stephen Ferguson
6 MIN READ