On tuesday 6th December, in the Business Post, you may have noticed a chap on the front page with the headline 'Could this man save the world?'

Well, as it happens, that man was me. This article, written by Mark Patterson, at the nottingham Post, explains my views on renewable energy, the earths dependance on fossil fuels, an update on 'The Dribbler' , and one or two interesting stories.

To read the full article, click on the link below, but here is a taster for you:

"A QUICK look through Tony Marmont's kitchen window tells you a lot about the man's abiding core interests. Centre front, at the bottom of a hill, is the large lake he built on his 50 acres of rolling green farmland near Loughborough.

To the right you can see two wind turbines turning gracefully in a late November breeze.

On the ground to the left, almost out of sight, is an array of solar PV and solar water-heating panels tilted up towards the sky.

In the foreground, immediately outside the window, hang several bird feeders which attract constant attention from blue tits and even an occasional woodpecker.

Environmental concern and renewable energy – these are the current intertwined interests of a millionaire businessman who, at 81, not only has no intention of slowing down but is about to thrown himself into a new venture that might just save the world from itself.

Sometime towards the end of the year, Marmont and four business partners will switch on a small pilot plant to manufacture a liquid hydrocarbon fuel that will do the same job as oil-based fuels.

If all goes well they intend to build a larger plant, then an even bigger one, with the eventual aim of producing 1,000 tonnes of fuel a day.

The production process, called Air Fuel Synthesis, combines carbon dioxide and hydrogen to make hydrocarbon fuel. Since the raw material supplying these molecules is air, the supply of the fuel is, in theory, infinite."

Read the rest of the article on the Nottingham Post website

Tags: Tony Marmont | renewable energy | AFS | alternative fuel