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Big Battery Powering Large-Scale Energy Storage Solutions

Researchers at the QUT-operated National Battery Testing Centre (NBTC) have commissioned the biggest large-scale iron flow battery - and the first of its kind - outside of the United States.

14 Feb 2023

New Board Members to Shape the Future of Scotland’s Renewable Energy Industry

Scottish Renewables, the industry body for renewable energy in Scotland, has newly elected three Directors to its Board.

14 Feb 2023

An Out-of-This-World Approach To Mitigate the Effects of Global Warming

Scientists from Harvard have revealed an out-of-this-world geoengineering approach that has the potential to slow the effects of global warming using space dust. While something of a moonshot, the researchers claim dust mined and launched from the moon could have an impact on the flow of solar radiation, slowing down the effects of climate change.

By David J. Cross 14 Feb 2023

Synthesizing Renewable Fuels for a Cleaner Future

Over the past couple of decades, the use of non-renewable sources of energy as fuel has degraded our environment and contributed to global warming.

14 Feb 2023

Hydrothermal Vents: A Surprising Source of Dissolved Black Carbon

Hydrothermal vents have been discovered as an earlier unexplored source of dissolved black carbon in the oceans, adding to the knowledge of the ocean’s role as a carbon sink.

13 Feb 2023

New Global Perspective on Wetland Loss can Help Prioritize Conservation and Restoration Actions

Wetlands are among the most threatened ecosystems in the world. A new study, published in Nature, has found that the loss of wetland areas around the globe since 1700 has likely been overestimated.

13 Feb 2023

Lowest-Ever Sea Ice Cover Recorded in the Antarctic

There is currently less sea ice in the Antarctic than at any time in the forty years since the beginning of satellite observation: in early February 2023, only 2.20 million square kilometres of the Southern Ocean were covered with sea ice.

13 Feb 2023

FuelPositive Announces the Near Farm Readiness of Containerized Green Ammonia Production System

FuelPositive Corporation provided an update today on the progress of its on-farm, containerized Green Ammonia production system and its current Sales Pipeline for 2023 and beyond.

13 Feb 2023

Comprehensive Picture of Greenland Ice Sheet Revealed

Scientists discovered that glacier movement in Greenland is more complicated than it sounds, with deformation in warmer ice comprising small amounts of water accounting for motion earlier thought to be caused by sliding where the ice meets the bedrock beneath.

13 Feb 2023

SSE and the University of Glasgow to Fund Unique Renewables Research

SSE Energy Solutions is to fund the most detailed research ever conducted into the performance of renewable technologies in the business sector.

From SSE Renewables 13 Feb 2023

LANXESS Software Calculates Carbon Footprint for Group’s Own Products

LANXESS has developed a tool that automatically calculates the carbon footprint for the Group’s products.

13 Feb 2023

Battery Day - Second-life Batteries: Reuse Needs to Sit Firmly Alongside Design for Recycling

Battery Day (18 February) celebrates the convenience that batteries bring to our everyday lives – in our phones, our computers, our electronics, our cars and our energy storage.

13 Feb 2023

AUSTELA - Solar Thermal Power & Storage Recognised with $65 million Grant from Government

The federal government’s $65 million funding for a major Concentrated Solar Thermal Power (CSP) project at Port Augusta is a positive step towards implementing long-duration renewable storage in the electricity grid and recognises the key role that CSP can play, says the Australian Solar Thermal Industry Association (AUSTELA).

13 Feb 2023

Vast Solar CSP Reference Plant, VS1 Port Augusta, to Receive $65 million Funding from ARENA

Vast Solar has welcomed the Minister for Climate Change and Energy’s and the Australian Renewable Energy Agency’s (ARENA) announcement that it has approved funding of $65 million for VS1, Vast Solar’s 30MW/ 288MWh reference plant in Port Augusta, South Australia.

13 Feb 2023

Contamination Risk in Groundwater Understated

More than 44 million individuals in the United States rely on unregulated private drinking water wells. Scientists from the University of New Hampshire and other institutions discovered that current monitoring practices do not truly capture groundwater pollution risks.

10 Feb 2023