Category: Net Zero

Understanding the UK’s low traffic neighbourhoods

Understanding the UK’s low traffic neighbourhoods

Who wants to live in a high-traffic neighbourhood? Nobody, really, but you might think otherwise, given the aggro that low-traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs) have caused on London’s streets. LTNs restrict motor-vehicle access to networks of side streets, usually with physical barriers like bollards and planters, or cameras that dish out fines to unauthorised vehicles. They stop […]

How does it feel to have so many servants?

How does it feel to have so many servants?

Because, in terms of the quality of life that people in rich countries now experience, that’s kind of what having access to energy is like. Here’s how … If you spent 10 hours a day, 300 days a year, jogging on a treadmill, you’d expend about 1 gigajoule of energy (at 100 watts): a reasonable proxy […]