A solar solution for Sub Saharan Schools
10:59 | Kerosene lamps are still widely used in many parts of the world, not least by kids trying to study during the evenings in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Airbus Hydrogen ZEROe Project. Stealing a march on the competition!
12:47 | Most industry commentators predicted it would be 2050 before we saw a commercial hydrogen powered plane in service. But industry giant, Airbus, have just smashed that assumption…
Portable Liquid Air Power. A new boost for electric vehicles
13:38 | Cryogenic air cooling is an invention that’s been used in industry for well over a hundred years. Recently the process was put to use as an energy storage system for electricity grids.
Climate and Ecological Emergency. Can you really make a difference?
15:21 | Climate and ecology are inextricably linked. This holistic approach forms the basis of the Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill, recently tabled in the UK Parliament.
Global greenhouse gas 2021 rebound. Is there any chance of staying under 1.5 degrees Celsius?
14:24 | Global greenhouse emissions dropped by 7% in 2020, for reasons that we all understand only too well. As we approach the half way mark in 2021…
A vertical axis wind turbine that doesn’t need the prevailing wind! How do they do that?
12:08 | Most air flows just goes to waste. What if we could scoop that air up and do something useful with it?
Climate change : The daily consequences we’re choosing to ignore
13:56 | The consequences of climate change are already happening all over the world every day.
Stirling Heat Engine to Stirling Heat Pump : How is it done?
14:12 | A UK company has developed a heat pump system based on the principles of the Stirling Engine, using no HFC refrigeration gases and with a 30% saving in energy costs compared to existing systems.
Population Growth. Is it out of control?
13:05 | Some say population growth is the root of all the problems we will face in the future and that it is rapidly spiralling out of control. But a new report suggests the numbers might not be quite as bad as we previously thought.
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).