The insane Carbon Capture Scam continues
14:39 | Fossil Fuel Carbon Capture and Storage yet again under-delivered in 2025.
14:39 | Fossil Fuel Carbon Capture and Storage yet again under-delivered in 2025.
12:02 | Somewhere below the Swedish city of Västerås, there’s a big man-made cave. The local energy company decided to clean it, pump it full of water and heat it up.
15:41 | Canadian petrochemical expert Paul Martin recently co-wrote a peer-reviewed paper examining why filling existing gas pipelines with hydrogen is a very bad idea.
11:56 | Gravity batteries are a new big hope for storing excess renewable electricity. The idea is ingenious. Does it pass the reality check?
12:33 | China is often held up as leading the way in renewable energy, but it’s actually the USA that has most enthusiastically embraced battery energy storage to help stabilize the electricity grid.
13:29 | Europe’s betting big on hydrogen – despite a lot of drawbacks. Is the continent’s hydrogen strategy overblown? And if so…why?
15:20 | The shipping industry is responsible for three percent of global emissions. One of its best bets to get these down is fueling their vessels with ammonia.
11:06 | Truck manufacturers are under immense pressure to cut emissions. But should they bet on fully electric batteries, hydrogen fuel cells or even both?
11:12 | A US company called FORM Energy is on the cusp of installing its first 10MW / 1 gigawatt hour iron-air energy storage facility.
12:43 | Pumped Storage Hydro could literally be the lynch pin to get us to 100% renewable global electricity grids without having to pillage the earth (and deep seabed) of critical minerals.
13:05 | Will batteries for hundreds of millions of future electric vehicles rob the planet of all its precious minerals? And what about all the minerals and materials for billions of wind turbines and solar panels?
11:46 | A team of researchers in Vienna has shown us how we can reliably move electrons using oxygen as the main source.
5:37 | Watch the video to learn more about how we might be able to store solar and wind energy and, finally, transition away from fossil fuels.
9:57 | Green hydrogen has been positioned as the fuel of the future — but what exactly is it, what are the risks, and can it actually phase out fossil fuels for good?
8:00 | In Indonesia, where the majority of nickel for lithium-ion batteries is produced, the production process emits large amounts of carbon and pollution. It doesn’t have to be this way. Indonesia sits along the Ring of Fire, one of the most geologically active regions in the world.
11:42 | Hydrogen is not easy to store. Now two separate and completely unconnected teams claim to have worked out how to store hydrogen in powder form. So is this a genuine breakthrough or yet more wishful thinking?
9:14 | As climate change accelerates, finding clean alternatives to fossil fuels is more urgent than ever. Social entrepreneur Vaitea Cowan believes green hydrogen is the answer.
10:28 | Liquid metal battery technology has the potential to revolutionise utility scale energy storage, but it’s been a long and difficult road for the creator, Donald Sadoway, and his company, Ambri Inc.
11:27 | How do we get ourselves off our dependence on fossil fuels? And if the alternative is intermittent renewables then how are we going to keep our homes constantly warm during the colder months? Perhaps our friends in Scandinavia can provide some answers…
9:53 | The lithium-ion battery has powered us for decades. But for a renewable future, we need a new solution—and fast. So what are our options?
11:17 | Graphene is about to become a reality in electric vehicle batteries, increasing energy density by 40% or more, and reducing charge times to just a few minutes.
11:59 | The market for energy storage is still dominated by lithium-ion technology. But cheaper, greener and safer alternatives are being developed all the time.
14:20 | A team at MIT has combined and improved several existing technologies into a flexible modular solution that could be as much as 30x cheaper than existing lithium-ion technology.
11:41 | Sodium-ion batteries have been overshadowed by lithium-ion for decades, but there’s a thousand times more sodium in the earth’s crust than there is lithium.
12:07 | Some say it’s the fuel of the future that will soon power large parts of our economies. Others say it’s just a hoax propagated by the oil and gas industry.
7:25 | Sitting in a row outside of the factory, these giant batteries are the size of freight containers. Powered by vats of iron and saltwater, they’re called iron flow batteries.
11:36 | Ammonia has great potential as a fuel source, if only a way could be found to produce it without the huge carbon dioxide emissions it currently creates.
12:19 | Manganese dioxide flow batteries may offer a very cost effective way of bridging the gap between short duration lithium-ion batteries and longer duration technologies like hydrogen.
10:20 | As the United States turns to electric vehicles, solar and wind for its clean energy transition, the demand for lithium – used in rechargeable batteries – is on the rise.
28:25 | Green hydrogen produces zero emissions and many believe it holds the key to limiting global warming. So is it the big hope for the future or a multi-billion euro mistake?
11:35 | Lithium Sulphur (or Sulfur) batteries have been on the ‘hopeful technology’ list for over a decade now. Now, after ten years of waiting, suddenly two different solutions have been announced within a week of each other.
11:16 | Now, one company plans to replace the burners in disused coal fired power plants with an energy storage system that can not only provide useful grid balancing power, but also bring gainful employment back to hard working people.
13:31 | Gridscale is a long duration energy storage solution developed by Stiesdal Storage Technologies in Denmark.
9:16 | Billions of unassuming rocks on the seafloor could help humanity save itself from the ravages of climate change.
24:29 | In this episode, we look at some of the ways technology is helping us solve the big environmental problems of our age.
11:27 | Iron Air batteries use cheap, non toxic, abundant materials and potentially have a far higher energy density than Lithium Ion batteries.