Ilika Plc’s share price has been climbing steadily since the end of November, reaching a three-year high in January after having declined steadily throughout most of 2019. No single event seems to have triggered this rise but it is likely that the world’s increasing interest in electric vehicles and the internet of things has finally [...]
The share price of Ceres Power Holdings has been increasing steadily from 213 pence at the end of November to an all-time high of 352p today. This may well have been caused by Ceres’s announcement at the beginning of November that it was producing a new range of its SteelCellTM products that ran solely on [...]
On 1 July 2019 RedT, the provider of flow batteries, announced its plan to merge with Avalon Battery Corporation, a private California-based supplier of flow batteries with engineering facilities in Vancouver and a manufacturing plant in Suzhou. Following AIM rules, trading was suspended at a price of 1.07pence. The merger is in fact a reverse [...]
By Oliver Nelson-DummettOliver Nelson-Dummett Today we are introducing a new writer to Greenbarrel who, as the title of his piece suggests, looks at the arresting idea that people can power their homes by light shining on their windows, using what are known as luminescent solar concentrators. This article is planned to be the first in [...]
AFC Energy, the hydrogen fuel cell manufacturers, has clearly impressed the market recently with its share price climbing steadily from 5 pence in early November to above 25p today. It had not been at this level since the end of 2015, and had been floating around 5p for over a year. A string of announcements [...]
When, on 2 November, the government announced a moratorium on fracking in England until proved safe, opponents felt their protests had been justified, while supporters either thought it was an election stunt or wondered why other countries did not have the same problem. Was it the ground underneath England or the people above it that [...]
The IEA predicts a bright future for the offshore wind industry but there is a problem: wind farms fixed to the sea floor are not yet commercially viable in water depths above 50-60 metres. The southern North Sea, for example, is generally shallower than this but the northern part is not. Floating wind farms are [...]
The eighth annual Oxford Energy Day, held on 1 October with 180 attendees, was devoted to the issues of energy storage for the UK. Professor Chris Llewellyn-Smith, who is currently advising the government on the matter, gave the keynote address. To achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 Llewellyn-Smith estimates that the UK will need 50 [...]
In 2009 ten of the forty largest listed companies in the world by market value were European, whereas now only Shell and Roche Holding are. Furthermore there are almost no new large European firms: most have existed for more than a century. Europe, which includes the UK, is almost absent in new technologies. It does [...]
Darrell Bricker and John Ibbitson think that world population forecasts are wrong. The UN’s current best guess is that the world population will increase from 7.8 billion today to 9.8bn in 2050 and then level out near 11bn by the end of the century. Bricker and Ibbitson think that the population will have already levelled [...]