Silk Road revisited
A city within the city. It is the new Midwest Commodity Exchange Center (MCEC), the core of the metal products trade park in Xi’an. Positioned…
Innovation
The solar voyager
While Solar Impulse 2, the aircraft powered by solar energy is reaching the end of its journey around the World, another “eco” international industrial enterprise…
Speeding on the innovation highway
Electric cars were – and still are – being hailed as a new dawn. Next up are driverless cars. Going towards self-charging driverless cars will not be an easy ride
The incompatibility of HELE coal technology with 2°C scenarios
In December 2015, international governments pledged in Paris to limit global average temperature rise to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels, and to pursue efforts…
Clean energy from human urine
It used to be good only for water closets. Not true anymore. From human urine now we can extract potable water and energy too. Energy…
Hyperloop One already a success
Imagine a fossil-fuel independent world where those who don’t want to give up their road autonomy drive electric cars, while those who need to get…
MIT researchers convert waste gas into liquid fuel
Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have discovered a form of bioconversion that could be used to convert waste gases to biodiesel for…
Eleven organizations collaborate on innovation Dutch Windwheel
Eleven companies and research institutes have joined forces to start an innovation program for the development of the ù AM and Royal BAM Group, Deltares, Dura…
GES2 power station conversion by Renzo Piano in Moscow
Renzo Piano Building Workshop to convert a historic power station, on the Moskva river, into a new venue for contemporary arts and culture Italian architect…
Energy Storage Will Likely Follow Renewable Energy’s Rapid Growth Path
As can be gleaned from recent reports in the popular and trade press, activity is swirling around energy storage systems, highlighted by Tesla’s April 30…
GE Signs Largest Battery Storage Deal to Date
General Electric (GE) signed its largest energy storage deal to date to provide Coachella Energy Storage Partners with a 30-megawatt battery system as part of…
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…
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…