What will energy mean to us the day after tomorrow? Jon Herbert ponders on what may lie ahead. Hopefully, whenever we flick a switch in the future, the lights will come on. However, behind the switch-plate almost everything will have changed — through the grid to the power plant and onwards back to the original   Read More …

The accidental detonation of vapour from some 300 tonnes of leaked petrol at the Herefordshire Oil Storage Terminal was the largest land-based non-nuclear explosion since the Second World War. Jon Herbert looks at a new report examining how continuous safety improvements have helped turn good practice into common practice. The extent of the Buncefield oil   Read More …

Is the climate change prediction of more frequent warm and wet winters becoming an early UK reality? If so, what can be done and what would be the true cost of building resilience into the national infrastructure? Jon Herbert looks at a soggy mess. If a single phenomenon unites the often disunited United Kingdom, it   Read More …