All articles by Gary Peters

Operating a UK wide carbon capture project: can it be done?

While projections around climate change may appear grim – 2016 is all but guaranteed to be the hottest year on…
Grohnde: the world’s most productive nuclear power plant

Nine years under construction, the Grohnde nuclear power plant in Lower Saxony, Germany, finally came online in 1985 and quickly…
Silent flight: suppressing noise from wind turbine blades with owl-inspired coating

Photo courtesy of: photophilde via Creative Commons Scientists at England's Cambridge University, in collaboration with Virginia Tech, Lehigh and Florida…
Power surge: preventing exploding pavements in London

In 2013, a large explosion from beneath the pavement ripped through a corner of Pimlico Road in central London. Amateur…
An uncertain path: Pakistan’s push for nuclear power

According to a World Nuclear Association country profile, updated in April, Pakistan currently has 725MWe of installed nuclear power capacity.…

A robotic future for nuclear fusion

Amec Foster Wheeler was awarded the contract by Fusion for Energy (F4E), the EU organisation responsible for Europe's contribution to…
London’s electric vehicle revolution – ready at last?

It was back in 2009 that Mayor Boris Johnson said: "The time for simply talking about electric vehicles is over…
Sinfonia: energising the European smart city

Launched in June 2014, the EU project Sinfonia has set out to integrate scalable technologies in European cities in order…