Blue and White Christmas Porch Decor

Incredibly, the coal-fired capacity being used in the world today is emitting around 15 billion tonnes of carbon emissions each year, representing almost half of all our carbon emissions.

How could every building be carbon neutral, how could we replace every coal and gas power station?These ideas are part of leadership but I believe leadership needs to go further than influence.

The ambition needs to link the influence with the capability and energy to deliver..When my son was in Junior school as part of a project, we did a historic walk around my hometown, Newbury.I remember vividly reading about a workshop, just behind the Methodist Church, which during the Second World War was used to make components for the eponymous Spitfire.

Just a small reminder of the scale and organisation required to help us defeat what seemed an unbeatable enemy.The ingenuity, the leadership, the ambition, the delivery..

In our Design to Value approach, we have found that it is not enough to come up with a great conceptual design which in principle delivers great value.

Without the maintenance of the energy and ambition which delivered the design, the value can simply be frittered away.The difference may be in the maturity of the technology.

Without proven repeatability, regulation will remain arduous.Development is in progress, but the market is still some years from a pilot..

Some of the group suggested that the market for this technology is currently dysfunctional: modular nuclear developers have an idea and are looking for niche markets (for instance, replacing coal-fired power stations with SMRs, as well as data centre power).It was suggested that the DC industry could help focus and accelerate development through the creation of an Industry-Brief defining the market.