How Wind Energy Could Power Earth … 18 Times Over
10:57 | Denmark’s climate minister Dan Jørgensen lays out his plan to end the country’s oil industry by 2050 and transition to a fossil-free future powered by wind energy.
Algae – The super plant of the future
42:26 | Algae are perhaps the most adaptable and productive organisms on Earth. They’re an important food source, and their ability to provide oil could make them a replacement for fossil fuels.
Algae – natures answer to fossil fuels and plastics!!
15:59 | Algae has been used by humans for thousands of years, but the idea of using algae as a secret weapon to combat climate change is definitely a modern day concept.
Solar Wind and Wave. Can this ocean hybrid platform nail all three?
12:16 | Solar, wind and wave power from a single offshore platform?
Chibeze Ezekiel: A vision for sustainable energy in Africa
6:53 | Africa needs new energy sources to fuel its development, but the continent should invest in renewable energy instead of cheap, polluting alternatives like coal.
Solar PV efficiency – new breakthrough!
10:08 | A team in Cambridge has developed a film that can amplify the number of photons that a solar photovoltaic panel can use, with a potential increase in efficiency to as much as 35%.
Solomon Goldstein-Rose: How much clean electricity do we really need?
9:50 | Fossil fuel replacement isn’t enough, Solomon Goldstein-Rose explains in this compelling talk: we need to rapidly develop a new global system capable of producing 12 times the amount of clean electricity we generate today.
Powering the planet from space. Closer to reality than you think?
11:18 | Solar power stations in space. Sounds like pure science fiction doesn’t it?
The Explosion of Solar Power
6:47 | Solar power is one of the fastest growing energy sources during the last decade and the global production has gone up from 21 tWh in 2009 to 724 tWh in 2019.
Spherical Solar Cells – doubling the power output of flat PV panels!
11:11 | Solar panels are highly sensitive to what you might call ‘sub-optimal’ conditions… a research team reckon they’ve overcome those problems by creating a spherical version of the common solar PV panel.
Tidal energy could be huge – why isn’t it?
11:57 | It’s estimated that we could (practically) capture enough tidal energy to power all homes in the United States TWICE over – but we can only manage a tiny fraction of that right now.
How green is solar energy really?
9:02 | More and more solar panels are popping up all over the world – and it’s easy to see why: They provide clean energy at falling prices. But there are also some not-so-green sides to this technology.
This Is The Most POWERFUL Tidal Generator In The World!
Seat At The Table, Episode 7: I’m heading to Scotland to see how workers rights can be protected as we transition to sustainable energy. Plus we take a look at clean energy in Africa and the most powerful tidal generator in the world.
Solar PV film roll. Revolutionary new production technology
13:38 | Solar PV panels are now a common site around the world and they do a great job. But they only work on flat surfaces. What about the millions of other surfaces that are not so conveniently shaped?
The untapped energy source that could power the planet
15:10 | Deep beneath your feet is a molten ball of energy the same temperature as the surface of the sun — an immense clean energy source that could power the world thousands of times over, says Jamie C. Beard.
Renewable Baseload Power from a single desert location. Enough for 7 million homes!
14:50 | One UK company have just announced a £16 billion project that will be generating 3.6GW of solar, wind and battery capacity in South Morocco.
Wooden wind turbines. Are they really a sustainable alternative?
10:35 | Wooden windmills are surely a relic from our pre industrial history aren’t they? Well, that was certainly true until recently.
Is offshore wind the energy of the future?
14:16 | With wind almost always blowing on sea, there is no lack of power. But the technology is struggling with a bunch of other hurdles.
Why the US isn’t ready for clean energy
6:50 | Making clean energy isn’t enough: We also have to move it.
Rethinking Climate Change. The path to a 90% emissions reduction by 2035.
18:55 | The climate emergency requires climate solutions. And fast! A new analysis suggests that 90% of the job could be achieved by just a handful of disruptive technologies that are very real indeed.
Is wind power the future of freight shipping?
The global freight shipping industry accounts for nearly 3% of all GHG emissions, so freight operators are on a quest to reach net zero by 2050. Here’s three of the most promising wind power options that could help them get there.
How concentrated solar power could fuel the future
9:27 | What if we could not only harness the power of the sun, but actually use it to run the entire planet?
The former coal town leading the race for clean energy
11:44 | The Port of Blyth boasts a world-class research hub for offshore renewable energy.
Deep Ocean Floating Wind Turbines. How do they do that?
12:58 | Offshore wind turbines powered almost 40% of all the UK’s homes in 2020. IEA says there’s enough potential energy out there to power all of Europe, the US and Japan several times over.
World’s most powerful tidal turbine : Launched April 2021
12:37 | A jumbo jet sized floating platform supporting two large turbines has been launched off the coast of Scotland, providing new hope for a potentially influential industry.
Geothermal Energy meets Master Planned Communities : A blueprint for the future?
10:16 | A major housing development in Austin, Texas is installing five miles of geothermal pipework to serve a Master Planned Community that will comprise 7500 homes and 30,000 residents.
Agrivoltaics. An economic lifeline for American farmers?
14:28 | Agrophotovoltaics, agrivoltaics, or APV. Just like the name suggests, it’s a way of combining photovoltaic solar panels with agriculture.
Why Oil Country is Turning to Wind Power
9:29 | If Texas were a country it would be fifth in the world for wind energy generation. Take a trip through wind country with host Joe Hanson as he looks into why oil country is turning into wind country.
A solar solution for Sub Saharan Schools
10:59 | Kerosene lamps are still widely used in many parts of the world, not least by kids trying to study during the evenings in Sub-Saharan Africa.
How FIVE BILLION Pounds of Las Vegas Garbage Powers a City
9:14 | Most of the 600 billion pounds of waste that Americans produce every year ends up in landfills. All that trash can have huge impacts on the environment. But modern landfills have found a new use for all that trash — they’re turning it into energy.
A vertical axis wind turbine that doesn’t need the prevailing wind! How do they do that?
12:08 | Most air flows just goes to waste. What if we could scoop that air up and do something useful with it?
Life Cycle Assessment. Optimising raw materials for renewables
17:48 | Switching to renewables is an important step towards a more sustainable future. Optimising the efficiency of those mining and processing operations can hugely reduce their impact.
Micro Hydropower : Turbulent Turbines
14:02 | A new micro-hydropower technology is working with the natural flow of water and wildlife rather than against it, to bring much needed constant baseload power to off grid areas in remote areas of developing nations.
One Sun One World One Grid
25:54 | India and China will most likely be key to the success or failure of our transition to a sustainable future. They’re now jostling for geopolitical power too.
Biomass. Is it killing our forests?
11:11 | Biomass is held up by governments around the world as a net-zero carbon alternative to fossil fuels. Just like most aspects of climate change mitigation though, the reality is far more complicated than that.
India’s Solar Canals. Lateral thinking at its finest!
10:37 | Solar Power is set to be the dominant transformative form of power on the mighty subcontinent of India as it moves away from its dependence on coal and towards a more sustainable future.
How solar energy got so cheap, and why it’s not everywhere (yet)
7:53 | A lot speaks for solar energy. It’s clean, renewable – and now even cheaper than energy from fossil fuels like coal or natural gas. But it only makes up a tiny bit of global electricity production.
Kur mod klimakaos – Ud af afhængigheden. Fremtidens CO2-fri energiforsyning
6:08 | “Kur mod klimakaos” er baseret på NOAHs klimahandlingsplaner, der er lavet som et kritisk modspil til regeringens klimalov.
How Hydro Energy came to Dominate the Renewable Electricity Production
4:08 | Hydro energy is the dominating renewable energy source. In this video I visualize the development from 1965 up until today.
Geothermal energy is renewable and powerful. Why is most of it untapped?
9:51 | The potential of geothermal energy seems enormous. If estimates are correct, then the heat under our feet amounts to 50,000 times more power than all the oil and gas resources in the world.
India’s historic opportunity to industrialize using clean energy
11:05 | India has a historic opportunity to power its industrialization with clean energy – and its energy choices will make or break the world’s fight against climate change.
The Explosion in Wind Power
4:02 | How the global Wind Energy production increased by 500 % in 10 years.
Geothermal ground source heat pumps. Heating your home from your own back yard!
13:35 | Geothermal energy could be potentially transformational for our power grids. But you and I can also get in on the act by drawing our own domestic heating from beneath our gardens (or communal gardens if you live in an apartment block).
Why don’t we all just use Geothermal Energy?
14:37 | Science tells us there’s enough energy in the first 10 kilometres below our planet’s surface to provide all our energy needs for millions of years. So why isn’t our entire planet powered by it?
Germany’s struggle with wind power
28:25 | Germany needs wind power if it is going to meet its climate goals, and successfully transition from nuclear and coal power to renewable energy. But the construction of wind turbines has been stalling.
Perovskite Solar Cells: Game changer?
14:58 | Perovskite can give a big boost to the performance of existing solar cell technology. We take a look at how it works.
Could This Be the Solution to Reaching 100% Renewable Energy?
12:22 | Ultimately, 100% renewable fossil-fuel-free energy is not only possible but necessary to mitigate the worst effects of climate change.
The new urgency of climate change
10:45 | The coronavirus brought much of the world to a standstill, dropping carbon emissions by five percent. Al Gore says keeping those rates down is now up to us.