Heating your home with HYDROGEN. A green solution or a greenwashing scam?
13:31 | Gas suppliers and boiler makers are lobbying hard for the use of hydrogen in domestic heating systems. But is that the right road to take?
Are EVs really better for the climate?
12:03 | Once all the carbon costs of extracting, processing and manufacturing are taken into account, how much lower is the overall lifetime carbon footprint of an EV compared to and ICE car?
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…
Bioreactor Buildings
10:40 | Algae is one of the most successful organisms on earth, and we humans are only just starting to understand its potential in our climate mitigation challenge.
How to capture 2 billion tonnes of CO2 AND fix our oceans
13:02 | A UK based company called Brilliant Planet has perfected a method that, at full scale, can drawdown 2 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide from our atmosphere every year while also restoring alkalinity levels to our ocean ecosystems.
A global solar PV waste TSUNAMI is about to hit!
11:21 | Solar PV panels are multiplying at almost virus-like speed all over the planet. That’s a great thing for the transition to sustainable energy, but a massive potential problem for a catastrophically ill-prepared recycling industry.
A climate solution you might not think of
11:36 | Research shows that the unwanted by-product of the mining industry, rock dust, could be a transformational supplement to agricultural soils all over the world.
Gravity Energy Storage. Who’s right and who’s wrong?
11:10 | Gravity energy storage has real potential to provide cheap reliable grid balancing electricity to compliment the ever growing volume of intermittent renewables on our power grids, but only if it’s done in the right way.
Perovskite solar cells. Major new breakthrough!
11:30 | Perovskite structures have the potential to revolutionise the solar PV industry, but they are notorious for breaking down very rapidly in real-world use. Now a research team from Princeton University has developed a process for overcoming that problem.
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.
Lifetime carbon emissions of renewables vs fossil fuel. Problem or solution?
12:17 | How do lifetime emissions from manufacture, transport and disposal of renewables stack up against fossil fuels?
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.
How to cut out the ‘fossil gas middle man’
12:06 | A new report shows how much more economically smart it would be to simply jump straight from coal to renewables and cut out the ‘natural gas middle-man’ completely.
How waste heat can help get us off natural gas for good
11:42 | A video about capturing and utilising the enormous quantities of heat currently going to waste from more than seven million data centres and tens of millions of industrial facilities around the world.
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.
Massive global energy disruptions are coming. Brace yourself!
16:19 | 15 million jobs are set to be lost from the fossil fuel industry in the coming years, but more than three times that will be created in the renewable sector.
Carbon Dioxide Removal from our oceans. Can we achieve 20 BILLION tonnes per year?
12:30 | A new study proposes copying the way nature creates seashells, so that we can durably store billions of tonnes of carbon in solid rocks on the seabed.
IPCC ‘Survival Guide’. Hope or delusion?
13:53 | The latest IPCC report suggests we can survive the 21st century by making unprecedented and totally radical changes in the next eight years. But are they deluding themselves and giving us a false sense of security?
The Solar PV panel that provides electricity AND heat for your home!
15:59 | Solar photovoltaic panels provide electricity for homes, businesses and utility scale grid providers. Ironically though, the hotter they get in direct sunshine, the less effective they are at producing power.
Nuclear Fusion Illusion. Is it time to park the pipe dream?
14:35 | Nuclear fusion promises to provide unlimited, cheap, safe energy for the future of humankind. But are the latest “breakthroughs” really as good as they’re made out to be?
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.
Can we survive the coming decades?
15:49 | Can we survive the coming decades? The IPCC has just published their answer, at least from a climate point of view. And they pull no punches.
How to balance renewable grids WITHOUT energy storage!
13:24 | Balancing renewable power sources on modern electricity grids is becoming one of the greatest logistical challenges of our time.
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?
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.
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%.
Antarctica latest research: Doomsday Glacier ice shelf will be gone in 5 years!
12:52 | The country sized glaciers on Antarcticas outer edges have been receding for years, but now new research has shown the disintegration of Thwaites, or Doomsday, Glacier is accelerating fast.
We’ve got climate change under control…apparently!
10:13 | When it comes to climate change, the majority of us think we’re personally doing our bit, but that we’re being let down by everyone else, including our own neighbours.
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?
Rolls Royce Small Modular Reactor. Energy Revolution or delusional distraction?
15:50 | Small Modular Reactors are being touted as the only zero carbon baseload solution to our climate crisis. Rolls Royce say they’ll have their design operational within ten years. Can they do it, and do we want it?
Artificial starch from CO2. Ground breaking new tech could reduce land and water use by 90%
11:31 | A Chinese research group has perfected a system to manufacture synthetic starch, potentially saving huge swathes of land and water use.
Exploring the TRUE cost of ditching fossil fuels
13:50 | Fossil fuels are inextricably linked to our everyday lives and it’ll be impossible to phase them out in the next three decades. At least that’s what the fossil fuel industry would have you believe.
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.
BLAH, BLAH, BLAH? Is that all our leaders provided at COP26?
18:03 | Our leaders tell us that the COP 26 climate conference in Glasgow was a success, but hundreds of thousands of climate activists outside the event did not seem to share that optimism.
Wireless FULL EV charging has arrived! Exciting new tech breakthrough.
12:47 | The launch of the world’s first fully electric wirelessly chargeable car.
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?
COP 26 key priorities. Will our leaders FINALLY do the right thing??
13:13 | Can our politicians filter out the cacophony of climate noise in the world right now and focus on the key priorities that will actually make a difference?
CO2 Free Steel becomes a reality at Volvo and Mercedes Benz
10:14 | As we continue to use ever more steel for new infrastructure around the world, the task of decarbonising the industry is growing ever more urgent.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Low Carbon Hub – A glimpse of our distributed community energy future
7:54 | The business model featuring a one way street of electricity supply will soon be consigned to the history books, replaced by a smart distributed grid with multi-directional imports and exports, often driven by local community schemes. Here’s a great example.
Blue Hydrogen. The greatest fossil fuel scam in history?
15:42 | Blue hydrogen is being promoted by natural gas producers as the simplest and cheapest answer to decarbonising our economies. But recent studies have shown that it’s overall greenhouse gas emissions footprint is worse than natural gas.
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.