Hydrogen Home Storage. Could this be a game changer?
11:08 | Now a new energy storage system puts green hydrogen production firmly into the hands of the consumer. On site, in their own home. Safely and reliably. Could this one be a game changer?
Life Cycle Assessment. Optimising raw materials for renewables
17:48 | Switching to renewables is an important step towards a more sustainable future. Optimising the efficiency of those mining and processing operations can hugely reduce their impact.
Wet Bulb Temperature. Life or death?
10:25 | Wet bulb temperature sounds almost comical, but the implications of it’s extremes could not be more serious.
Retrofitting to Passive House standards
13:51 | Passive House, or Passivhaus, is an energy efficient building design standard for new builds all over the world. But what about existing buildings that already account for almost 40% of all global greenhouse gas emissions?
Micro Hydropower : Turbulent Turbines
14:02 | A new micro-hydropower technology is working with the natural flow of water and wildlife rather than against it, to bring much needed constant baseload power to off grid areas in remote areas of developing nations.
Oceans, Carbon and Heat. Have we wrecked another equilibrium?
12:04 | Our oceans have been absorbing carbon dioxide and heat energy from our warming atmosphere for decades. But we’re reaching a point where even those vast bodies of water are struggling to cope. So what next?
Nano Coated Salt Technology
11:18 | The energy storage sector is becoming a pretty crowded field as more and more companies come up with solutions that will be crucial to dealing with the intermittency of renewable technologies.
One Sun One World One Grid
25:54 | India and China will most likely be key to the success or failure of our transition to a sustainable future. They’re now jostling for geopolitical power too.
Biomass. Is it killing our forests?
11:11 | Biomass is held up by governments around the world as a net-zero carbon alternative to fossil fuels. Just like most aspects of climate change mitigation though, the reality is far more complicated than that.
Carbon Dioxide Reduction A BIG loophole for business
14:02 | Some businesses are banking on throwing money at carbon offset schemes like large scale reforestation to enable them to carry on business as usual.
Is it too late to avoid 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming?
10:40 | Climate Change comes into sharp focus in 2021 / 22.
India’s Solar Canals. Lateral thinking at its finest!
10:37 | Solar Power is set to be the dominant transformative form of power on the mighty subcontinent of India as it moves away from its dependence on coal and towards a more sustainable future.
Liquid Metal Batteries. Are they an economic possibility?
25:54 | Liquid metal batteries are being hailed by some as the most transformative and revolutionary energy storage technology since John B. Goodenough came up with lithium ion batteries several decades ago.
Gravity Energy Storage: A very uplifting technology!
9:47 | Two new companies have developed systems that mimic the effect of pumped hydro by raising and lowering extremely large and heavy weights up and down over huge height distances.
Vertical Farming: Growing fast!
12:46 | Vertical Farming has been in and out of the news for a decade now.
Passive House – A low carbon future for our homes?
11:21 | What are the principles of Passive House?
Hydrogen energy storage in AMMONIA: Fantastic future or fossil fuel scam?
18:00 | Folks in the energy industry are apparently getting quite excited about the concept of hydrogen energy storage in ammonia.
Fossil free steel. Another giant step towards net carbon zero?
12:01 | Steel has become an essential material in our modern world. But the steel making industry is responsible for 7% of all global greenhouse gas emissions.
Structural batteries : Shaping the future of energy efficiency
12:11 | Batteries in electric vehicles and electronic devices make up a very large proportion of the overall mass. But what if you didn’t need to bolt the batteries to any part of the bodywork at all?
Regenerative Agriculture – The fastest way to climate safety?
13:54 | A growing number of ecologists and land managers are turning to regenerative agriculture as the fastest way to draw CO2 back out of the atmosphere.
Zero Emission Trucks : Can we afford to go there? Can we afford not to??
16:24 | All of the world’s biggest truck making firms are racing to get their hydrogen or battery electric vehicles to market in the next couple of years. Will we have the infrastructure ready to accommodate them? Can we afford it?
Arctic Methane. Has 2020 triggered a tipping point?
12:12 | The summer of 2020 saw record breaking heatwaves across the Arctic region. Those warm temperatures also caused the thawing of permafrost and sediment on the seabed allowing the release of very high concentrations of methane. Have we now reached the tipping point?
Organic Redox Flow Batteries – The true path to grid scale energy storage?
10:47 | An all organic Redox Flow battery has been developed by a team of researchers in Sweden. Could this be the system that finally makes global grid scale storage a reality?
Cooling our future. How Global Cooling is heating up the planet
14:56 | Existing cooling systems cause the atmosphere to warm even faster through CO2 emissions and refrigerant chemicals that are thousands of times more powerful as greenhouse gases. So what can we do to square the circle?
Concrete Carbon Capture. A pathway to net zero?
16:53 | Carbontech is a developing industry dedicated to drawing carbon dioxide out of our atmosphere and locking it up in products, buildings and infrastructure.
The power brick that actually is a brick!
13:19 | A research team at Washington University in St Louis, Missouri has just published details of a power brick that actually is a brick. A red house brick to be precise.
Geothermal ground source heat pumps. Heating your home from your own back yard!
13:35 | Geothermal energy could be potentially transformational for our power grids. But you and I can also get in on the act by drawing our own domestic heating from beneath our gardens (or communal gardens if you live in an apartment block).
Why don’t we all just use Geothermal Energy?
14:37 | Science tells us there’s enough energy in the first 10 kilometres below our planet’s surface to provide all our energy needs for millions of years. So why isn’t our entire planet powered by it?
Arctic disintegration is worse than we thought
14:35 | Arctic sea ice is disappearing faster than we thought!
China’s MILLION VOLT Energy Superhighway
12:31 | Smart grids delivering renewable energy across continents will require extremely long electricity transmission distances. China is tackling the issue by switching from AC to DC power and ramping up the output to 1.1 million volts.
Lithium Recycling FINALLY goes global!
13:22 | Lithium recycling wasn’t considered important ten years ago when fewer than 60,000 electric vehicles were sold worldwide. But today…
Perovskite Solar Cells: Game changer?
14:58 | Perovskite can give a big boost to the performance of existing solar cell technology. We take a look at how it works.
How energy storage will kill fossil fuel
15:50 | Dramatic cost reductions, improved efficiencies, and a plethora of new innovations in how to store energy that can be delivered into the grid over long durations have all contributed towards a rapidly changing energy market.
Global Green Recovery. Really?
11:37 | Global Green Recovery seems to be the buzz phrase exciting journalists and Social Media types in many parts of the world right now…
Small Modular Reactors. Are they now unavoidable?
16:16 | This week we consider the pros and cons of Small Modular Reactors.
Liquid Air Batteries. Literally energy from thin air. Seriously. Literally!
13:11 | This design that utilises tried and tested components that have been reimagined and re-engineered to perform a vital function for electricity grids, now and in the future.
Bolsonaro : How quickly is he destroying the Amazon Rainforest?
15:52 | Jair Bolsonaro took power in Brazil in October 2018. Since that time he has waged a relentless war on one of the most delicate and essential ecosystems on the planet.
Busting Climate Myths : The Psychology of Denial
28:36 | Debunking myths about Climate Change is a crucial factor in closing the gap between public and scientific consensus. The good news is that the gap is narrowing quickly.
How do we solve the Cobalt problem?
17:14 | Cobalt has become an important ingredient in the batteries powering much of today’s technology. Most of it comes from the mines of the DRC in Africa…
Green Hydrogen: Can Australia lead the world?
13:09 | Australia’s vast land mass, almost constant sun and wind, and access to an array of minerals and resources really does make it the ideal location for large scale hydrogen production powered by renewable technologies.
Is Germany sustainable?
14:29 | Wind power now dominates Germany’s electricity sector, but the country also still burns millions of tonnes of coal every year.
Planet of the Humans : Let’s just have a think…
29:07 | We review the movie Planet of the Humans and consider its implications for climate activism.
Is Big Oil finally getting stranded?
13:22 | Thanks to Russia and Saudi Arabia, global oil production has not decreased in reaction to the abrupt halt in our economies. Is this a ‘Perfect Storm’ that spells the end for BIG OIL?
Is the Gulf Stream collapsing?
13:32 | The Gulf Stream and the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation exert a huge influence on heat and energy distribution around our planet.
Can Coronavirus cool our climate?
13:36 | How will global civilisation bounce back? We might actually have a once in a lifetime opportunity to reshape the way we run our societies.
Californian Carbon-Negative Roadmap
14:32 | A new study by a research team co-ordinated by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory explains how California will lead the way to Carbon Negative Emissions.
Global Dimming Paradox: Are we facing an abrupt temperature spike?
13:55 | As entire countries are getting shut down around the world, with the rapid reduction of emissions that this causes, is the global dimming paradox about to be tested?
Antarctica: What happens if the ‘Doomsday’ Glacier collapses?
12:40 | Antarctica is home to some of the world’s largest ice sheets and glaciers. Now a new US / UK research collaboration has discovered that the rate of melt is even worse than scientists feared.