Energy
Transitioning to a world powered by renewable energy is key to tackling climate change. Here you can find the latest good news related to our clean energy transition, covering wind, solar, green hydrogen, hydropower, and more.
Fierce competition drives down the price of offshore wind energy
Competition drives the clean energy revolution in an exponential way to faster and better outcomes. We see that with electric cars where new models seem to break battery range records weekly. And the cost of building solar plants has declined by 25 percent in just five months. Now a similar Read More...
Hydrogen cars and electrolysers: the dawn of Australia's hydrogen economy?
The hydrogen economy has been a long time coming. The use of hydrogen as a replacement energy source for oil and gas has been talked about since the early 1970s when the term was first coined by an engineer at General Motors in the US. It still hasn’t really arrived. And doubters remain. They Read More...
Typhoon turbine could power all of Japan for 50 years
Storms can be devastating, mainly because they have so much power and energy. An engineer wants to harness that energy with the world’s first typhoon win turbine, an egg beater-like contraption designed to harness the immense energy of storms as a unique energy source. The amount of kinetic Read More...
Oslo makes bold move in fight against climate change
Norway is a northern country and its residents need a lot of energy to stay warm during the ice and snow of the winter. Nonetheless, Norway has long been ahead of the mark when it comes to climate action, and now the capital’s city government has issued its first “climate budget” which aims Read More...
50% of EU residents could be generating their own renewable energy by 2050
A people-powered energy revolution—an era in which people can produce their own electricity—is possible, and could happen soon, according to a new report released Monday by the environmental group Friends of the Earth Europe (FOEE). The report, The Potential of Energy Citizens in the Read More...
Here's how much of the US would need to be covered in wind turbines to power the nation
On September 27, the US District Court of Appeals in Washington DC will hear arguments over the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan, which dictates carbon-cutting standards for states based on their greenhouse gas emissions. The Supreme Court put a hold on enforcement of the Read More...
Finding better ways to get hydrogen fuel from water
With hydrogen power stations in California, a new Japanese consumer car and portable hydrogen fuel cells for electronics, hydrogen as a zero emission fuel source is now finally becoming a reality for the average consumer. When combined with oxygen in the presence of a catalyst, hydrogen releases Read More...
Cell made from spinach uses sunlight to produce electricity, hydrogen from water
A team of researchers from the Technion Israel Institute of Technology has developed a bio photo electro chemical (BPEC) cell that produces hydrogen and electricity from water using sunlight. They used a simple membrane extract from spinach leaves to achieve this feat. The device produces oxygen, Read More...
Solar startup in Africa has a very bright future
A startup that’s helped bring solar energy to millions of customers living in off-grid areas of Africa has announced that it will be shifting their business towards larger, more powerful solar-powered gear. After successfully bringing solar lanterns to 65 million people, the startup, d.light, Read More...
New renewables outpacing rising electricity demand for the first time
For the first time ever, investment in new renewables was more than enough to cover rising global electricity demand in 2015. That’s according to the first World Energy Investment report, published by the International Energy Agency (IEA). While fossil fuels still dominate energy supplies, Read More...