The rise of electricity storage: something for everybody
The barrage of news about the progress and promise of electricity storage in the last year just got another jolt from two disparate sources: the…
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US legislation the key driver in the energy storage market
Last April Tesla Motors unveiled its Powerwall and Powerpack lithium ion batteries for homes and utility-scale applications, which could facilitate an increased role for wind…
The world’s first climate positive data center is built in Sweden
Up to 10 percent of the world’s electricity is consumed by the Information and Communications Technology sector alone. ICT is emerging as a new target…
More coal plants are being cancelled than built
The global coal boom has started to slow, a new report says, as more plans for new power plants are now being shelved than completed….
Russia completes design papers for Fukushima tritium removal
Russia’s Atomproekt has completed the draft design and working documents for a demonstration unit to separate tritium from contaminated water at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear…
Four reasons why the transition from fossil fuels to a green energy era is gaining traction
Don’t hold your breath, but future historians may look back on 2015 as the year that the renewable energy ascendancy began, the moment when the…
Bringing the age of steam into the information age
‘Greetings from the Stone Age’ proclaimed the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung upon the opening of a brand new coal power plant near Hamburg this year,…
Monsanto fears
Neil Young is like good wine, improving all the time. The older he gets the better he becomes. Nothing sad, nothing pathetic no sign of…
The Shaky Science Behind Predicting Earthquakes
It is a typical day and Italy is shaking. I am standing in the monitoring room at the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, in…
Fossil Fuels (emissions) here to stay
Gone are the days of the fossil fuels golden age but we are still in a period of abundance. New supplies added to the world…
The Dream of Flying with no Fossil Fuel
The longest distance ever flown by a solar airplane in aviation history: 13 hours and 20 minutes of flight, reaching an altitude of 8,534 meters…
US Geothermal Stuck in the Mud, but 2014 Global Growth Boosts Industry
The geothermal industry’s efforts to grab a bigger slice of the growing renewable energy pie met with some success in 2014, though that wasn’t reflected…
Global warming slowdown: No systematic errors in climate models, comprehensive statistical analysis reveals
Skeptics who still doubt anthropogenic climate change have now been stripped of one of their last-ditch arguments: it is true that there has been a…