Cocoa pods: Where chocolate starts its journey. Image: By Karunakar Rayker from India, via Wikimedia Commons This article first appeared on the Climate News Network website by Kieran Cooke If you like chocolate you’ll love this: the same tree that provides your indulgent treat is helping to slow climate change, thanks to [...]
This is the second of two articles on SIMEC Atlantic Energy Part one of our two-parter on SIMEC Atlantic Energy concluded with summary of the state of the company in July 2018. In short, we attempted to examine whether the company’s plan to transform itself from a heavily subsidised small tidal power turbines company (MeyGen) [...]
This is the first of two articles on SIMEC Atlantis Energy a renewable energy group which is moving away from subsidy support into private sector investment The accepted conventional wisdom in the UK for the past three decades at least, has been that renewable energy companies have been infant groups that have needed subsidies and [...]
Small reactors power many icebreakers (like the lead vessel, seen here at the North Pole). Image: Via Wikipedia Commons (public domain) This article first appeared on the Climate News Network.Net website by Paul Brown The nuclear industry’s fierce fight for survival is leading several countries to develop smaller, off-the-shelf nuclear reactors. As costs escalate, several countries [...]
Offshore wind power’s future looks bright. Image: By Cassie Boca on Unsplash This article first appeared in Climate News Network.Net by Paul Brown As turbines grow in size and costs tumble, offshore wind turbines, both floating and fixed to the seabed, have vast potential. Offshore wind power is set to become one of the world’s largest electricity producers [...]
This is the second of two articles on the chaos in the UK’s energy policy In the first article on the UK’s energy situation I wrote about the mess Mrs May’s government had got itself into with its attempts to put a ceiling on energy prices for the country’s 30million or so households. The long-delayed [...]
This is the first of two articles on the chaos in the UK’s energy policy On 7 February the government announced that the energy bills of 15 million households could increase by more than £100 a year after the regulator Ofgem said it was raising the level of a price cap. Consumers on default tariffs, [...]
Nature can save the world’s cargo vessels a fortune. Image: By Stephen Crowley on Unsplash This article first appeared on the Climate News Network. net website by Tim Radford Laboratories can make energy from greenhouse gases, power smartphones with their own radiation, and cut shipping costs naturally. And each could become reality. Researchers have found ways to [...]
Ilika plc describes itself as a pioneer in solid–state battery technology and as a materials innovation company. It has developed a type of lithium-ion battery, which instead of using a liquid or polymer electrolyte, uses a ceramic ion conductor. Three or four years ago the London AIM-listed Ilika elected to focus its cell development on [...]
Arsenal FC’s battery-powered London home. Image: By Ronnie Macdonald, via Wikimedia Commons This article first appeared on Climate News Network. Net By Paul Brown The fastest-expanding industrial sector on the planet is now electricity storage − a battery boom which heralds an end to the need for fossil fuels. Billions of dollars are being invested worldwide [...]