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.
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.
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.
How can we make air conditioners 33% more efficient? Here’s a revolutionary solution.
11:19 | Energy consumption for heating and cooling is expected to triple in the next thirty years, as populations grow, and more people move into cities. A lot of that energy demand is used in compressing and pumping fluids.
IPCC Sixth Climate Assessment. Will this one make the blindest bit of difference?
14:36 | The IPCC has been publishing science based climate warning assessments since 1990 and in those 30 odd years human beings have released more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than we did in the previous two centuries.
Is wind power the future of freight shipping?
The global freight shipping industry accounts for nearly 3% of all GHG emissions, so freight operators are on a quest to reach net zero by 2050. Here’s three of the most promising wind power options that could help them get there.
New Iron-Air Battery outperforms best Lithium Ion tech.
11:27 | Iron Air batteries use cheap, non toxic, abundant materials and potentially have a far higher energy density than Lithium Ion batteries.
Can you really affect climate change? Yes. You can. Here’s how…
22:59 | This video looks at ten areas of your life where you can make a positive difference.
Battery Swapping. Transforming the trajectory of electric vehicles?
12:29 | As electric vehicle sales continue to accelerate around the world, battery charging times and operational lifespan are becoming ever more important questions in the minds of potential EV drivers.
Solid State Batteries – Autumn 2021 mass production in Japan. Is it FINALLY happening?
14:10 | Solid state batteries are the long-promised Holy Grail of battery technology. Turns out it’s quite tricky to make them reliable!
Deep Ocean Floating Wind Turbines. How do they do that?
12:58 | Offshore wind turbines powered almost 40% of all the UK’s homes in 2020. IEA says there’s enough potential energy out there to power all of Europe, the US and Japan several times over.
Global decarbonisation : Lies, damn lies, and statistics?
13:40 | Decarbonisation is the only way out of our climate emergency. But just about every mainstream agency and organisation around the world is advising policymakers not to move too quickly away from fossil fuels for fear of disrupting economies and societies.
Climate impact of the world’s top meat and dairy producers
14:46 | Three study papers have been published that look at different activities of industrial meat and dairy producers, with some fascinating conclusions and proposals.
Hemp conversion to graphene and diamond. Smart carbon capture?
14:26 | Hemp is an extremely fast growing plant that stores a large amount of carbon. So is it really possible to convert it into graphene and diamond in a sustainable, environmentally friendly way?
Mixergy Water Storage. Smart technology for grid stability.
13:58 | A new smart domestic hot water storage tank has been developed that not only heats water 20% more efficiently, but can also use electrical energy when it’s free or even negatively priced.
World’s most powerful tidal turbine : Launched April 2021
12:37 | A jumbo jet sized floating platform supporting two large turbines has been launched off the coast of Scotland, providing new hope for a potentially influential industry.
Geothermal Energy meets Master Planned Communities : A blueprint for the future?
10:16 | A major housing development in Austin, Texas is installing five miles of geothermal pipework to serve a Master Planned Community that will comprise 7500 homes and 30,000 residents.
Why has the Amazon flipped from carbon sink to carbon source?
13:45 | Human activity hasn’t just lowered the amount of CO2 the Amazon region can store, it’s also kicked off numerous other feedback loops that are now tipping out of control.
China Carbon Neutral by 2060? Will their coal addiction kill the plan?
15:50 | China is installing more renewable energy than any other country in the world, but they also added the equivalent of one large coal power plant to their electricity grid every single week in 2020.
Agrivoltaics. An economic lifeline for American farmers?
14:28 | Agrophotovoltaics, agrivoltaics, or APV. Just like the name suggests, it’s a way of combining photovoltaic solar panels with agriculture.