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We Must Halve Our Energy Use to Avoid Climate Catastrophe: New Modelling

New research shows that a transition to renewable energy alone is not fast enough to keep global temperatures below 2050 target levels.

28 Apr 2022

Hydrogen Fuel Cell Developed with Inexpensive Materials to Expand Its Usage

Scientists at Imperial College London have engineered a hydrogen fuel cell that utilizes iron rather than rare and expensive platinum, allowing better application of the technology.

26 Apr 2022

New Research Harnesses the Power of Movement

Harvesting energy from the day-to-day movements of the human body and turning it into useful electrical energy, is the focus of a new piece of research involving a Northumbria University Professor.

26 Apr 2022

Xprize Milestone Award for ISU Researchers for their Efforts to Remove Carbon Dioxide from the Atmosphere

A research group from Iowa State University that helped develop a demonstration-scale pyrolyzer that has the ability to sequester thousands of tons of carbon dioxide annually has received an esteemed milestone award from XPRIZE Carbon Removal, it was declared on Friday.

25 Apr 2022

Two New Labs Aim to Accelerate Clean Energy-Related Innovations

To better meet the energy demands of Singapore in a sustainable and renewable manner, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) is leading an initiative to launch two new laboratories which will help energy start-ups make the leap from research and development into commercialisation through industry expertise, mentorship, and test-bedding.

22 Apr 2022

Addressing Climate Crisis by Developing a Gamut of Technologies for Direct Air Capture

The need for negative emissions technologies to address our climate crisis has become increasingly clear. At the rate that our planet is emitting carbon dioxide – adding about 50 gigatons every year – we will have to remove carbon dioxide at the gigaton scale by 2050 in order to achieve "net zero" emissions.

22 Apr 2022

UQ Collaborates on a Trailblazing Sustainable Energy Project

The University of Queensland will play a crucial role in a multi-million-dollar four-year project which will see universities and industry working together to build commercialisation in Australia’s critical mineral supply chain that will create 1300 jobs.

20 Apr 2022

New Research Examines the Influence of Factors That Contributed to Patterns of High-Burn Severity

At the beginning of September 2020, high heat, severe winds, and extended drought conditions resulted in the volatile growth of wildfires ahead of the western slopes of the Cascades Mountains in the Pacific Northwest. The fires engulfed huge tracts of destroyed communities, and forestland took tons of lives, and cost hundreds of millions to fight.

15 Apr 2022

Creating Scalable Clean Energy Solutions for Decarbonization of Industrial Processes

On April 11, 2022, MIT announced five multiyear flagship projects in the first-ever Climate Grand Challenges, a new initiative to tackle complex climate problems and deliver breakthrough solutions to the world as quickly as possible.

15 Apr 2022

New Research Could Lead to Self-Charging Electronics Using Stored Solar Energy on Demand

The researchers behind an energy system that helps capture solar energy, has the ability to store it for up to 18 years, and then liberate it when and where it is required have currently taken the system a step ahead.

12 Apr 2022