Solar panels above waterways and farms. WIN-WIN!
13:59 | Agrivoltaics and Solar Canals have been around for a while now, but they haven’t exactly ‘gone viral’ have they?
Kicking fossil fuel out of industry! Here’s how it’s done…
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.
Are Electric Vehicles a MISTAKE?
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?
Renewable Energy Domination
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!
Doomsday Glacier collapse! Time for MORE human intervention??
13:41 | Some scientists reckon we should radically intervene. But are they right?
Have we lost control of METHANE gas?
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.
The death of clean, green energy in the USA? Not a chance! Here’s why…
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.
Is there ANY optimistic climate news? YES. There is…
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.
Global Energy Market Disruption. This man has THE PLAN!!
16:24 | I visited Greg Jackson at his London HQ to have a chat about what he’s up to.
Has the Atlantic AMOC system ALREADY started to collapse??
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!
Solar Power can now be generated at NIGHT! It’s really TRUE!
10:59 | So, can we look forward to 24-7 solar power?
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.
Solar PV with more than 40% efficiency is now achievable
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.
FINALLY! Fully recyclable wind turbine blades!
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.
The INSANE effect of Artificial Intelligence on Climate Change
12:36 | Should we let Artificial Intelligence take over the job of fixing the climate?
Arctic Sea Ice minimum 2024. Three degrees Celsius warming now baked in?
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.
The power is finally in YOUR hands!
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.
New report: Biomass CO2 emissions 4X higher than COAL!!
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.
Electric vehicle import tariffs are a really dumb idea!
14:16 | Electric Vehicles are coming our way from China like a tsunami over the horizon. But both the European Commission and the US Government believe they can keep back the tide simply by applying very high tariffs on those imported cars.
Battery powered flights from Washington DC to LA. No longer a pipe dream?
12:08 | Has battery chemistry reached yet another previously impossible milestone?
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.
High voltage electrons from Morocco to the UK. The blueprint for a global ‘internet of energy’?
12:53 | Electrifying everything with renewable technologies like solar PV, wind turbines and battery energy storage is a ‘holy grail’ that energy transition naysayers tell us is an impossible dream.
Global Economy or Climate Emergency. Is that our choice?
11:54 | Your money is in grave danger if the world does not act urgently to mitigate the worst consequences of our rapidly warming climate. Now a new report sets the challenge out in painful detail.
How China is winning the GREEN ENERGY race
18:59 | China’s version of the industrial revolution has lifted hundreds of millions out of abject poverty, but it is still held up by some as the greatest modern sin against humanity and our climate. So, how accurate is that allegation?
100% wind and solar is coming!
17:30 | 100% electrification from renewables, backed up with interconnections and energy storage is now just around the corner. But there are still bumps in the road. Can we overcome them in time?
Ocean Electricity Grid. How do they do that?
13:05 | What if you could build your electricity grid out at sea and just bring cables to shore where they’re needed?
Europe is cooking at double speed! Are Europeans ready?
12:34 | The European Environment Agency has just published it’s first ever Climate Risk Assessment, which finds that EU policies are nothing like robust enough to cope with what’s coming our way.
Rethinking electricity grids
11:58 | The cost savings, energy efficiency improvements, and speed of installation that new materials are facilitating may just make the difference in the race for decarbonisation.
Small Modular Nuclear Reactors. The Verdict
14:41 | Great on paper…but do Small Modular Nuclear Reactors pass the ‘sniff test’ in the real world?
Perovskite Solar PV. FINALLY some good news!
13:19 | Perovskite is not a material most of us will have come across in normal daily life, but it has the potential to take solar photovoltaics to levels of efficiency that were previously thought to be impossible.
Carbon Capture and Storage. Inconvenient new data.
13:34 | So, Carbon Capture and Storage then. Climate change cure-all or delusional diversion by our friends over at Fossil Fuel HQ?
Does energy efficiency just make us use more stuff?
13:36 | ‘Jevons Paradox’ says the more efficient and cheaper we make things, the more we use them. So are we in a no-win situation or is there actually a way out
The INSANE numbers of a global climate conference!
17:07 | Our global leaders all gathered in one of the biggest oil producing nations to discuss with more than two thousand oil industry lobbyists exactly how they should legislate in the coming decades. What could possibly go wrong?
If BIG OIL fails, do we all go down with it??
14:38 | The International Energy Agency just released a new paper analysing how oil and gas will dwindle in the next three decades to a small fraction of their current size.
Corporate ‘Net Zero’ BS is all the rage. Don’t get taken in!
14:45 | Everyone’s got a ‘Net-Zero’ plan these days, haven’t they? But are these claims a genuine marker of real decarbonisation within a business or just an exercise in corporate box-ticking?
How can we stop burning fossil fuels if we still need everything else they make?
15:49 | Petroleum-based products are all impossible to make without first producing hundreds of millions of tonnes of gasoline, kerosene, and diesel. At least that’s what the fossil fuel industry would like you to believe.
Moving waste heat from industry to homes
12:44 | How about a well insulated shipping container that can handle 1300 degrees Celsius and be delivered to small operators who need low grade heat, or to district heating systems to keep you toasty warm in the winter?
Global Energy Transition. Are we winning?
13:42 | The Global Energy Transition is the most profound change to human civilisation since the end of the last glacial period about 11,000 years ago.
The money men know the truth about planetary boundaries!
16:40 | Risk managers at the world’s largest financial institutions are beginning to factor ‘Planetary Boundary’ science into their spreadsheets.
We need to talk about ANTARCTICA…AGAIN!!
16:03 | The 2023 Antarctic Sea ice maximum was more than a million square kilometres lower than the previous low record. Now two scientific research teams published data on just how bad it is likely to get.
Big Oil, Big Lies and Big Al…
15:37 | World leaders just gathered at the UN in New York to discuss the climate, ahead of the main COP 28 climate conference coming up in November 2023.
Emissions free cooling. Can we do it?
11:20 | We can’t eliminate air conditioning, because millions of people would literally die. So what are we doing to try to solve a rapidly worsening problem?
13 miles down and 1000 degrees! Hot enough for you?
11:27 | There’s enough energy just in the very thin crust of our planet to run human society for hundreds of thousands of years.
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.
Arctic heat is coming our way. And fast!
12:44 | A new research paper has analysed the fundamental long term changes in the way heat is carried into the Arctic Ocean from the much warmer Pacific and Atlantic oceans. And it’s not great news!
Are future humans really our problem?
15:20 | Is our short-term thinking risking the future prosperity and possibly even survival of our descendants? Many scientists say very emphatically yes!
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?