Apollo Programme's clean energy vision is more than blue sky thinking

Will Nichols
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Programme to make renewables cost-competitive with coal faces funding and political challenges, but leading thinkers are convinced they have may the answers

Plane journeys rarely end with a plan to save the world. But that is how the Global Apollo Programme (GAP) came about, as a result of cabin chit chat between former government chief scientist Sir David...

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