Issues: Energy
Resources to help you understand the latest developments in energy technologies, the changes they will work across the economy, and their potential benefits to humanity.
- Australia's Tasmania makes shift to renewable electricity. [web page]
- Confirmation of a significant step forward in nuclear fusion research as a California team accomplished ignition. [web page]
- New wall-like array of wind turbines developed in Norway. [web page]
- Laser ignition technology reaches fruition for fusion reactors. [web page]
- Pavements go solar in Spain. [web page]
- Australian solar firm SunDrive makes significant materials breakthrough. [web page]
- Renewables on the rise in Scotland. [web page]
- Transparent solar panels hidden in plain sight as windows might significantly increase solar power adoption. [web page]
- Hydrogen fuel cells get a large power boost from new storage medium. [web page]
- The company intends to dig the world's deepest hole in order to liberate a huge amount of energy. [web page]
- Nuclear waste has enough energy to power the US for 100 years, but the technology was never put into use. [web page]
- New magnet-free electric motor has a rotor with wound coils. [web page]
- Perovskite to boost mankind's solar power push. [web page]
- Tesla to create a new battery farm in Texas following harsh Winter grid collapse. [web page]
- A new firm want to use waste nuclear material to power ultra-small nuclear reactors. [web page]
- Jeff Bezos goes nuclear with new fusion demo plant in Britain. [web page]
- The blowhole wave energy generator performed very well in the test that lasted for a year. [web page]
- Fossil fuel dependency is on the wane in Western Europe. [web page]
- Powdered hydrogen technique might be the energy breakthrough the hydrogen economy needs to get going. [web page]
- For Radiant, small nuclear is beautiful nuclear. [web page]
- Going deep in Japan's seas for the new class of tidal turbines. [web page]
- New fusion magnet makes net energy possible for tokamak design. [web page]
- Proof of concept shows that the physics that could make quantum batteries work is real. [web page]
- Proof of concept shows that the physics that could make quantum batteries work is real. [web page]
- Nuclear fusion is transitioning from being a physics challenge to an engineering one, as shown by the South Korean nuclear fusion reactor reaching 100 million°C for 30 seconds. [web page]
- A new MIT-designed battery constructed of aluminium, sulphur, and salt has been shown to be quick, safe, and economical. [web page]
- International Energy Agency confirms solar now cheaper than gas, oil and coal. [web page]
- Hydrogen cartridges developed by Toyota to create a functional clean energy distribution system. [web page]
- South Australia sets a new record by operating on renewable energy for a week in December 2021. [web page]
- Wave-riding generators have the potential to provide renewable energy at the lowest cost yet seen. [web page]
- China finds bigger equals better when it comes to wind turbine size. [web page]
- Warren Buffet and Bill Gates to build first small advanced nuclear Natrium reactor inside the USA. [web page]
- TerraPower, Bill Gates' company, will build a $4 billion nuclear power station in Wyoming to replace an existing coal power plant. [web page]
- Green hydrogen fuel at scale is the Saudi plan for a post-oil economy. [web page]
- You can't fight climate change and beat it without serious investment in new nuclear power facilities. [web page]
- An algae energy harvester can sustainably power devices for a year.
- In Finland, the first industrial sand battery started storing electricity. [web page]
- Gravity batteries point the way to an interesting way to store green energy for when the sun/wind aren't generating. [web page]
- Small fusion concept receives Jeff Bezos funding. [web page]
- The nuclear regulator in the United States has given the go-ahead for the first small modular reactor. [web page]
- Energy from concrete? Well, the lifting of it using surplus power. [web page]
- Have the Finnish solved the nuclear waste disposal issue? [video]
- Thermal batteries have the potential to store wind and solar energy effectively in a sustainable grid. [web page]
- New property in Si/GaN boosts carbon-free hydrogen production. [web page]
- Engineers create a solar panel that uses radiative cooling to produce power at night. [web page]
- New hydrogen transport powder appears, promising a density increase of twofold. [web page]
- Unreasonably wasteful burn-offs may be put a stop to by a new methane binding method. [web page]
- Engineers at MIT have created a heat engine with no moving components, comparable to the photovoltaic cells in a solar panel. [web page]
- New lithium-metal battery has a two decades life span and can charge an EV in just three minutes. [web page]
- Hydrogen pellet method points the way to effective laser fusion. [web page]
- Solar-powered battery just got super-sized, and it's nearly done. [web page]
- Scientists at Monash University in Australia claim to have achieved a significant breakthrough in green ammonia manufacturing that might replace the notoriously polluting Haber-Bosch process, potentially reducing global greenhouse gas emissions by approximately 2%. [web page]
- Solar electricity may be stored for over two decades with a novel energy storage device. [web page]
- The energy stored in a rechargeable Molten Salt Battery is frozen in place for long-term storage. [web page]
- Zap Energy puts the pinch on fusion energy with a novel new tech - no massive magnets required. [web page]
- Britain has the potential to become a world leader in tidal energy. [web page]
- Let the wind power rip to power our Earth. [video]
- Iron-air batteries use rust to store energy for longer durations. [web page]
- Heating and cooling buildings with sewer waste energy. [web page]
- US going big with offshore wind farms - at last. [web page]
- Shell is said to be cutting oil and gas production expenses in order to concentrate more on renewable energy. [web page]
- High temperature semiconductors are cracking some of the key engineering challenges for working nuclear fusion systems. [video]
- A recent development in magnet technology might pave the way for fusion reactors that are both smaller and more powerful. [web page]
- Small-scale nuclear plants to push ahead in UK. [web page]
- Solar panels go transparent for glass buildings everywhere. [web page]
- The hydrogen-boron laser fusion test conducted by HB11 provides ground-breaking findings. [web page]
- A fortunate discovery concerning lithium-sulfur batteries has a real opportunity to completely transform the way we power our globe in the near future. [web page]
- In the next decade, a growing industry of nuclear-fusion companies claims they'll have commercial reactors ready. [web page]
- Thin film solar launching into USA. [web page]
- Much talked about tidal turbine tech finally goes live inside the UK. [web page]
- First Light Fusion, a startup, claims to have made a big advance in nuclear fusion. [web page]
- Jordan to get a truly massive new solar array to help power Israel. [web page]
- A car exhaust for fusion could be just what we need. [web page]
- The technology behind solid-state thermophotovoltaic cells, or TPV, is advancing rapidly. [web page]
- The US Navy uses microwaves to transmit 1.6 kW of electricity across a distance of one kilometre. [web page]
- Tidal turbines take a turn towards power in Scotland. [web page]
- Your new nuclear reactor may be docking off your coast, soon. [web page]
- Tesla's battery development team has published a study on a new high-energy-density battery that might last a century. [web page]
- There's a large amount of wasted energy to be saved by electric vehicles. [web page]
- Your queries on ultra-deep geothermal drilling are addressed. [web page]
- Green energy costs are still dropping as the energy equivalent of Moore's Law keeps on ticking. [web page]
- Hydrogen fuel has recently been successfully produced by scientists using just air and sun energy. [web page]
- China now looks likely to produce the world's first working thorium technology nuclear reactor system. [web page]
- Solid-state battery revolution just got a little realer? [web page]
- The future of the US energy grid is up for grabs as local distributed systems fight distant utilities. [web page]
- Ignoring the solution to the UK's energy dilemma that is right beneath our feet is insane. [web page]
- SPARC next-generation fusion research looking good. [web page]
- Bill Gates's Natrium sodium fast reactor to push ahead in USA. [web page]
- Japan is looking to Toyota for an urban hydrogen power concept. [web page]
- Storing the energy bounty of renewables for days and later grid release is now looking possible with a mass iron air battery rollout. [video]
- A cunning idea to turn skyscrapers into batteries via the power of gravity. [web page]
- Aluminum has a greater energy density than lithium ion in redox cycle batteries. Swiss scientists are developing the technique as renewable winter energy. [web page]
- The 20 million kWh "Water Battery" in Switzerland is now operational. [web page]
- Free jet fuel from CO2 capture becomes a possibility. [web page]
- One of the primary renewable energy sources in Europe will be the ground-breaking new Swiss "water battery." [web page]
- Coming battery tech will be built-in, not added on. [web page]
- Sahara solar has the potential to undermine and replace Opec and Russia's oil hegemony by establishing a new energy order based on inexpensive desert solar. [web page]
- American solar prices reach new levels of cheap - but climate change demands even better efficiency. [web page]
- In light of 2022's mad dash for fossil resources, the rhetoric at COP26 now seems rather insane. [web page]
- Why Tesla is fixing its battery supply issues. [video]
