The insane Carbon Capture Scam continues
14:39 | Fossil Fuel Carbon Capture and Storage yet again under-delivered in 2025.
Why a city in Sweden filled these caves with almost boiling water
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.
Why HYDROGEN for home heating is a REALLY DUMB idea
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.
How to use gravity to store energy
11:56 | Gravity batteries are a new big hope for storing excess renewable electricity. The idea is ingenious. Does it pass the reality check?
America’s grid battery revolution
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.
Europe’s ludicrous hydrogen bet
13:29 | Europe’s betting big on hydrogen – despite a lot of drawbacks. Is the continent’s hydrogen strategy overblown? And if so…why?
Can this magic fuel clean up the shipping industry?
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.
Which will be the engine of the future?
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?
Cheap, multi-day grid energy. FINALLY!
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.
The insane potential of Pumped Storage Hydropower
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.
Have we got enough 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?
Energy storage in oxygen
11:46 | A team of researchers in Vienna has shown us how we can reliably move electrons using oxygen as the main source.
How to fix clean energy’s storage problem
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.
Can Green Hydrogen Save the Planet?
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?
Batteries are dirty. Geothermal power can help.
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.
Hydrogen storage in powder : Breakthrough or Busted??
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?
How Green Hydrogen Could End The Fossil Fuel Era
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.
Liquid Metal Batteries are going global in 2022!
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.
The ‘Sand Battery’ that heats your home, NOT the planet!
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…
How salt and sand could replace lithium batteries
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?
New 2022 graphene battery launch : 8 minute charge time. 350 mile range!
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.
Zinc Bromide GEL batteries. Cheaper, greener, simpler & safer than lithium -ion!
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.
Grid Scale Energy Storage 30x cheaper than Lithium-ion! How do they do that?
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.
Sodium-ion battery breakthrough. Safer, cheaper and cleaner than Lithium-ion
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.
The truth about hydrogen
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.
This iron and water battery could power a more renewable grid
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.
Decarbonising AMMONIA production. Could a revolutionary new process be the key?
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.
Have we found the missing link in the energy storage equation?
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.
Lithium mine pits electric cars against sacred Indigenous land
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.
Is green hydrogen the answer to the climate crisis?
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?
Lithium Sulfur batteries: SOLVED! Two new tech breakthroughs in the same week!
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.
New energy storage tech breathing life and jobs back into disused coal power plants
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.
Has Henrik Stiesdal nailed yet another market disruptor?
13:31 | Gridscale is a long duration energy storage solution developed by Stiesdal Storage Technologies in Denmark.
Will deep-sea mining save us from climate change?
9:16 | Billions of unassuming rocks on the seafloor could help humanity save itself from the ravages of climate change.
The Future of Green Technology: Hyperloop and Solar-Powered Planes
24:29 | In this episode, we look at some of the ways technology is helping us solve the big environmental problems of our age.
New Iron-Air Battery outperforms best Lithium Ion tech.
11:27 | Iron Air batteries use cheap, non toxic, abundant materials and potentially have a far higher energy density than Lithium Ion batteries.