Can Latin America win the race to 100% renewables?
12:38 | Down in South America there is a quiet revolution going on in renewable power which could see that continent decarbonise far sooner than its northern neighbour.
12:38 | Down in South America there is a quiet revolution going on in renewable power which could see that continent decarbonise far sooner than its northern neighbour.
11:27 | The US energy system has arguably never faced such an existential crossroads. As the rest of the world accelerates towards the inevitable clean transition, will America really allow itself to fall behind?
13:52 | Heat Pumps are the future of home heating. But until recently most companies have grossly over sized the Heat Pump systems they install…
14:39 | Fossil Fuel Carbon Capture and Storage yet again under-delivered in 2025.
14:54 | The big boys of big oil, gas and coal are not so quick to point out the damage done by their own products…
17:59 | Wouldn’t it be better to accept the warming and adapt to a new world? This week’s video contains one or two thoughts on those suggestions!
13:49 | Planet Earth has been warming at a rate of about 0.2 degrees Celsius per decade since the 1970’s. Recent record warm years have suggested that rate of change may have shifted in a very unwelcome direction.
13:08 | Communities all over the world have been badly affected by the closure of coal mines in recent years. But their proximity to grid connections and infrastructure make them ideal sites for new solar projects.
11:16 | There’s a big schism among energy system analysts right now.
16:49 | JP Morgan chase recently published a comprehensive climate report. Meanwhile the UK Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, who are financial risk managers, published their own analysis with a very different outlook.
14:39 | A brand new research paper suggests the very first day when we could see an ice-free Arctic Ocean might be less than FIVE years away.
12:40 | The current US administration wants to ‘DRILL BABY DRILL’. Trouble is, all the real world data says that’s completely the wrong economic direction to go in.
11:25 | Now a new report has crunched some numbers and calculated the climate mitigation potential of all those unused roofs around the world.
13:39 | Recent studies have shown Carbon Capture and Storage and Carbon Dioxide Removal to be a completely false economy and yet another ruse by the fossil fuel industry.
12:28 | Modern climate models are incredibly sophisticated machines. But they’re still not able to accurately reflect what’s actually going on in the real world.
11:14 | The Arctic region is warming between 3 and 7 times faster than the global average and it’s carbon is escaping into our atmosphere.
12:10 | Donald Trump has signed executive orders designed to dismantle the Inflation Reduction Act.
12:23 | The world’s biggest banks pumped $7 trillion of our hard earned cash into oil and gas expansion projects between 2016 and 2023. How can you use your money to send a message to the fossil fuel behemoths?
13:59 | Agrivoltaics and Solar Canals have been around for a while now, but they haven’t exactly ‘gone viral’ have they?
13:38 | Industrial processes currently account for a quarter of all greenhouse gas emissions. Some say it’s impossible to decarbonise most of those applications, but now a new study debunks that lie.
10:39 | Well, to listen to certain sections of the mainstream press and social media, you’d be forgiven for thinking that they’re a disastrous concept and their sales are tanking fast. But does that tally up with the real-world data?
14:51 | No wonder the fossil fuel industry is trying every trick in it’s playbook to try to hoodwink the public and slow progress. But seriously guys…give it up. It’s over already!
13:41 | Some scientists reckon we should radically intervene. But are they right?
13:40 | The new 2024 Methane Budget from the Global Carbon Tracker tells us that it has been accelerating in recent years reaching record levels between 2017 and 2024.
11:12 | “Drill baby drill”, said Donald Trump many times on the campaign trail. Only trouble is, it won’t be quite as easy in practice as it is in rhetoric.
10:17 | It’s tempting to think the cause of climate mitigation is now all but dead. But just at the top of a very black cloud there is a faint glimmer of a brighter lining.
16:24 | I visited Greg Jackson at his London HQ to have a chat about what he’s up to.
16:55 | An AMOC collapse could bring such catastrophic seasonal disruption that it would make recent extreme weather events look like a walk in the park!
10:59 | So, can we look forward to 24-7 solar power?
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.
11:40 | Perovskite and silicon appear to be the dream combo for improved efficiency in solar PV technology, with the potential to more than double the performance of anything you may have on your roof today.
11:34 | A team at the US NREL claims to have used plant-based biomass to create turbine blades that can be completely broke down at the end of their operational lifetime and refabricated into new products.
12:36 | Should we let Artificial Intelligence take over the job of fixing the climate?
13:09 | Arctic Sea ice reaches it’s minimum extent each year around the middle of September. This year is one of the lowest in recorded history.
12:30 | The old fashioned, centralised energy monopolies are crumbling to make way for distributed smart grids enabling us consumers to run appliances, energy storage, and electric vehicles while contributing to overall grid stability.
12:10 | Biomass is touted as a sustainable, ‘net-zero’ alternative to fossil fuels. But environmental groups and scientists have disputed this claim for many years.