Prof. Phil Hart

Earth Day 2025: Still asking why renewables? Maybe start asking why not.

Earth Day. A day once a year when we collectively are reminded that we live on a fragile, singular planet. One planet. No backups, no reboots. As Carl Sagan cal [...]
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Does Carbon offsetting work?

Carbon offsetting is a contentious topic.In the fight against climate change, carbon offsetting has emerged as a popular strategy for individuals, governments a [...]
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The Critical Addition To The Future Energy Grid

Seems like a pretty innocuous question right, “what is a power grid?” For most of us, it’s a thing where power stations feed electricity onto dumb wires, do a l [...]
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Do Renewables make economic sense?

The renewables industry has historically been plagued by shouts of “it’s too expensive” and “coal is so cheap”, well hold onto your hats fossil fuel industry, t [...]
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The climate clock is ticking…

It’s a tough thing to sit beside a person who doesn’t believe in climate change and listen to their misguided pseudo-science denials of something so crucial to [...]
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Is it a Carbon Dioxide Problem or an Us Problem…?

Carbon dioxide (CO2) is painted as the arch-villain in climate change, but how bad is it in reality? To give away the answer right at the start, it is not neces [...]
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In the future, we’ll all be drinking the sea – if we can…

Access to water is the very definition of an absolute necessity. Those of us in higher and lower latitudes are perhaps currently shielded from any availability [...]
Published by : Prof. Phil Hart , Chakravarthy Gudipati, Ph.D

AI Based Sustainability Research: Key Tool or Lazy Cheat? Let’s Play

I thought this time I’d investigate whether AI is truly capable of producing interesting outcomes when doing research. I’ll declare a bias here – I didn’t/don’t [...]
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