Europe Is Stockpiling Wind Energy By Converting It To Hydrogen.
Clean Chemistry Ørsted, an energy company in Denmark, announced in March its new plans to convert electricity from its wind turbines into hydrogen fuel, joining the ranks of several other prominent European power companies.
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Record efficiency for perovskite-based light-emitting diodes.
Efficient near-infrared (NIR) light-emitting diodes of perovskite have been produced in a laboratory at Linkoping University. The external quantum efficiency is 21.6%, which is a record. The results have been published in Nature Photonics.
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Renewable Energy Now Accounts for a Third of Global Power Capacity.
Abu Dhabi, UAE, 2 April 2019 – The decade-long trend of strong growth in renewable energy capacity continued in 2018 with global additions of 171 gigawatts (GW), according to new data released by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) today.
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US Energy Storage Solution: Giant Coal-Killing Water Batteries.
File this one under K for Karma. US coal power plants have spent the past few decades messing with the nation’s water resources, and now water is turning around and messing with coal.
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March Temperatures in Alaska: 20 Degrees Hotter Than Usual.
By local standards, Alaska has been sweltering this spring. Temperature records have been set across the state, including in Kotzebue, where the thermometer reached 42 degrees Fahrenheit on the last day of March — 30 degrees above normal.
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Record-breaking ocean temperatures point to trends of global warming.
An international team released 2018 ocean heat content observations in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences on January 16, 2019.
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The End of the World Or: The unfortunate results of ignoring an inconvenient truth.
It was a balmy, bordering on uncomfortably hot day in Washington, D.C. on June 1, 2017.
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Pesticides and antibiotics polluting Europe’s rivers.
A new study has found that pesticides and antibiotics are polluting streams across Europe. The study, published in the journal Science of the Total Environment, tested samples from 29 waterways in 10 countries including some in the UK.
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Our Zero Emission Future.
A low-cost shift to clean energy is now feasible for every region of the world, owing to the plummeting costs of solar and wind power, and breakthroughs in energy storage.
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Global deforestation wipes out an area size of Belgium.
New research has found that global deforestation is on the rise.
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Global surface temperatures in 2019 are on track to be either the 2nd or 3rd warmest since records began.
Global surface temperatures in 2019 are on track to be either the second or third warmest since records began in the mid-1800s, behind only 2016 and possibly 2017.
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Melting permafrost in Arctic will have $70tn climate impact – study.
Study shows how destabilised natural systems will worsen man-made problem. The release of methane and carbon dioxide from thawing permafrost will accelerate global warming and add up to $70tn (£54tn) to the world’s climate bill, a
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Cheaper, Cleaner Biofuel May Be Right Around The Corner.
By combining an unorthodox solvent and a genetically engineered bacterium, a team of researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Worcester, Massachusetts has discovered a groundbreaking method for producing biofuels that is more economically efficient and environmentally friendly than
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Toyota and Kenworth unveil jointly developed fuel cell electric heavy-duty truck.
Toyota, Kenworth, the Port of Los Angeles and the California Air Resources Board (CARB) say they have
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Renewable energy co-ops launch manifesto for EU elections
REScoop is asking candidates and their political parties to guarantee new rights of citizens under the Clean Energy Package. The European federation of renewable energy co-ops is asking candidates running for EU elections to take into account ten policy priorities
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Solar panel demand causing spike in worldwide silver prices.
Rising demand for solar panels is having a major effect on the worldwide price of silver, which could lead to solar panel production costs becoming far higher in the future, new research from the University of Kent has demonstrated.
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Solar Steel supplies 500 MW of its RackSmarT fixed Tilt structure to the largest PV project in Europe.
Solar Steel, division of Gonvarri Steel Services is supplying 500 MW of its RackSmarT fixed tilt structure to the PV Project named Nunez de Balboa, which will become the largest PV plant installed to date in Europe.
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Researchers report high performance solid-state sodium-ion battery.
Solid-state sodium-ion batteries are far safer than conventional lithium-ion batteries, which pose a risk of fire and explosions, but their performance has been too weak to offset the safety advantages.
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World Circular Economy Forum & Innovation and Design in Circular Economy / Training in Helsinki, Finland
Final deadlines for registration. We're nearing the deadline for a deep dive into Innovations and Designs in Circular Economy Training registration.
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