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.
12:08 | Has battery chemistry reached yet another previously impossible milestone?
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.
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.
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.
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?
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?
13:05 | What if you could build your electricity grid out at sea and just bring cables to shore where they’re needed?
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.
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.
14:41 | Great on paper…but do Small Modular Nuclear Reactors pass the ‘sniff test’ in the real world?
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.
13:34 | So, Carbon Capture and Storage then. Climate change cure-all or delusional diversion by our friends over at Fossil Fuel HQ?
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
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?
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.
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?
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.
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?
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.
16:40 | Risk managers at the world’s largest financial institutions are beginning to factor ‘Planetary Boundary’ science into their spreadsheets.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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!
15:20 | Is our short-term thinking risking the future prosperity and possibly even survival of our descendants? Many scientists say very emphatically yes!
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?
11:46 | A team of researchers in Vienna has shown us how we can reliably move electrons using oxygen as the main source.
12:38 | Research now shows that cooling in the upper layers could be jeopardising satellite orbits and opening up a new ozone hole above the arctic. So what’s going on?
13:02 | Terra Preta, or Amazonian Dark Earth, has long been known for its remarkable biodiversity and fertility. Now a new study by a team of scientists in Brazil has identified what it is that makes Terra Preta so special.
13:55 | The energy transition solutions of the 21st Century will take many forms, with a complex mix of different power producers. Moving energy across ever greater distances will overcome much of the intermittency of renewables like wind and solar.
12:13 | Are we actually doomed as some commentators suggest, or is there any way at all that we can drag ourselves out of our self inflicted train wreck?
12:03 | The AMOC system has been weakening for decades and it is likely to grind to a halt at some point in the not too distant future, with profound effects on our planetary systems. So, can we do anything about it?