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Scotland’s University of Strathclyde’s Energy Systems Research Unit (ESRU) has teamed up with software provider ...
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The Global Footprint Network, an international research organisation, marked today, August 2, as Earth Overshoot ...
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UK Business and Energy Secretary Greg Clark announced this week the launch of the first ...
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CO2 Concentration Surges
Tuesday 9th September 2014The amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere reached a new record high in 2013, propelled by a surge in levels of carbon dioxide, according to the World Meteorological Organization’s ...
Wave Challenge
Monday 8th September 2014NASA is helping the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) harness the power of the oceans by first harnessing the power of the crowd. Ocean waves hold a tremendous amount of energy ...
Missing Leaders
Friday 5th September 2014BLOOMBERG’S Businessweek report that disappointedly two of the most important world leaders will be absent from the United Nation Climate Change Summit in New York later this month. Indian Prime Minister ...
Sound Device
Thursday 4th September 2014Using alternative ways for charging mobile devices is a major aim for many developers - there are so many devices that they consume plenty of electricity just to keep them ...
Bid for Funds
Wednesday 3rd September 2014The UK government's Department for Energy and Climate Change have launched their promised pilot scheme to aid businesses financially to install energy efficient technologies to reduce peak demand. The Electricity Demand ...
Slice Emissions Not Meat
Monday 1st September 2014We are concerned about saving energy and becoming more energy efficient, one way would be to become vegetarians - or at least reduce our meat eating. Research by Cambridge and Aberdeen ...
Draft IPCC Report - Video
Friday 29th August 2014The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have finished drafting their Synthesis Report and sent it to governments for review. The Synthesis Report is the final piece of the Fifth Assessment ...
Eastern EV
Thursday 28th August 2014China has been making advances with energy efficiency, and they need to. No doubt we have all seen the pictures of the intense pollution in many of their cities. Reducing ...
Cloud Energy
Wednesday 27th August 2014Blimps could be the future for our energy needs - how? By netting the water vapour from the clouds then using that for hydro electricity generation and a supply of ...
Transparent Solar
Tuesday 26th August 2014In the future you maybe able to replace your windows with solar collectors due to the work of a team of researchers at Michigan State University (MSU) who are developing ...
Sustainable Solar Supply?
Thursday 21st August 2014A global shortage of solar panels is looming as the solar industry booms according to Ehren Goossens writing for Bloomberg, stating “reversing a two-year slump triggered by a global glut.” The ...
Salty Batteries
Wednesday 20th August 2014Batteries are tremendous things - think of how they have changed our lives. Portable power enables us to do so much, or provide the energy to keep moving - if ...
Energy Lagoon
Tuesday 19th August 2014Can anything good come out of a lagoon - devotees of ‘B’ movies may argue now, but a ‘fleet’ of tidal lagoons could deliver huge financial and energy benefits to ...
Sweat Power
Monday 18th August 2014In the future, working up a sweat by exercising may not only be good for your health, but it could also power your small electronic devices. Researchers have designed a ...
Catch The Light
Thursday 14th August 2014Saving energy isn’t any easier than using what we have naturally, particularly when it comes to light. During the day, when most of us are working, we are bathed in ...
Emergency Microgrid
Wednesday 13th August 2014Renewable energy needs good storage to provide reliable and consistent power, so it is interesting that a groundbreaking solar plus storage microgrid project has been launched in Rutland, Vermont, USA. ...
Stacked Solar
Tuesday 12th August 2014We often post about researchers trying to improve the efficiency of solar panels, generally using new and exotic materials but a startup, Semprius, have developed a simpler way to improve ...
Space Energy Storage
Monday 11th August 2014NASA is looking at four proposals for advanced energy storage technologies that may be used to power the agency's future space missions, making it possible for them to explore further ...
Fly Smoking
Friday 8th August 2014We publish a post on energy storage based on cigarette butts and then tobacco raises its head again - as plane maker Boeing, South African Airways (SAA) and SkyNRG are ...
Energy Butts
Thursday 7th August 2014Cigarette Butts are rightly named - something disgusting that is found in stinking ashtrays, thrown in the gutters by smokers and they are far from environmentally friendly, it is estimated ...
Trigeneration Plant
Wednesday 6th August 2014An innovative 'trigeneration' system fuelled entirely by raw plant oils could have great potential for isolated homes and businesses operating outside grid systems. Developed by a consortium led by the UK’s ...
No Bad PR
Tuesday 5th August 2014Climate change deniers have used PR firms to cast the dirt and spin the data to their own political or self profiting views. As for PR firms, it is what ...
Spray Solar
Monday 4th August 2014A team of scientists from the University of Sheffield in the UK is the first to fabricate perovskite solar cells using a spray-painting process – a discovery that could help ...
Climate Change Action
Friday 1st August 2014The UN Climate Summit takes place in New York City in September, with world leaders from President Barack Obama through to Chinese President Xi Jinping answering the invitation of UN ...
Tiny Inverter for $1M
Thursday 31st July 2014Fancy winning a million bucks form Google? If you do get your thinking caps on and invent a smaller power inverter. Google, along with the IEEE Power Electrics Society, have set ...