Green ammonia, what else?
Everyone looks to green hydrogen as the new frontier of fuels. But its storage and long-distance transport are still open challenges. Ammonia is an emerging…
Articles by Alice Masili (ONE team)
Wind blows, hydrogen goes
The future of travel will not only belong to battery-powered vehicles. Climate-neutral synthetic fuels are another promising option, and the focus of a pioneering new…
The flexible virtues of PtX
The Power of X – not talking here about the Marvel mutant superheroes, but about technologies that can help us to fight climate change. Southwestern…
Clean coal: a mirage or a forced marriage?
What’s the real meaning of affordable energy? Something you can buy cheaply or something you can rely on to improve your well-being? The answer is…
Nuclear, a waste of time?
One kilogram of Uranium 235 generates the same amount of energy derived from the combustion of 2 million kilograms of coal. Thermoelectric power plants rely…
If Ebola becomes the norm
Climate change interferes, directly and indirectly, with a wide variety of diseases by acting as a multiplying force for the diffusion of infectious diseases. Global…
Nuclear power – breakthrough technology or eternal promise?
A new-wave nuclear power that could cut down carbon emissions, according to Microsoft founder Bill Gates, is one of the 10 Breakthrough Technologies that will…
Plastic is here, there and everywhere
It had to happen sooner or later: the ocean contains plastic, the fish contain plastic, and now the plastic also arrives in the water we…
Ice melting is too silent to disturb policy makers’ sleep
In the Paris Climate Agreement, where member states agreed to limit the increase in average global temperature to values significantly lower than 2 degrees Celsius…
The true carbon footprint of photovoltaic energy
The sun is an inexhaustible energy resource to generate electricity apparently without toxic pollutants or effects on global warming. Certainly, solar energy systems (photovoltaics, solar…
Hywind and Dry
We are in Buchan Deep, where Scotland has given the green light to Hywind, a project that brought about the construction of the largest floating…
The Bitcoin never ending rise: a model of unsustainability?
A currency that keeps growing and democratizes the digital economy but looks far from being ecological. Maybe it is the right time to ask questions…
The alarming link between greenhouse effect and hurricanes
Who lives by the fossil fuels shall die by the global warming. Cynical, unforgiving, bitter, acrimonious and catastrophic? Sure. It ticks all the boxes. But…
The Chinese Solar revolution
If we were convinced to have made the most of the sun’s energy, it was because we had not yet thought of turning a dismantled…
Vertical green
Have you ever thought of building a green roof or a vertical garden for your house? After this article, you will start thinking about it,…
Looking for alternatives: CO2 mineralization
The reduction of carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere is one of the great goals of our century. The constraints on emissions set by the…