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…
New record in worldwide wind installation
More than 50 GW Additional Wind Power Capacity, Wind Power Worldwide Close to 370 GW According to preliminary figures gathered by WWEA, the year 2014…
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…
Coal industry stands for progress and prosperity
Outlawing coal, as EU policymakers seem intent on doing, would be a divisive and backwards step for humanity, writes Brian Ricketts. Brian Ricketts is the…
Coal gasification: Could it lift the industry out of the ‘coaldrums’?
It has been no secret that the seaborne coal market has been in steady decline, amid a deep imbalance between supply and demand which has…
China agree to fight carbon emissions
Diplomats in Paris were beaming when the world’s most populous country announced plans to start cutting its net CO2 emissions “around 2030”. But environmentalists were…