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.
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?