Beijing’s air quality is thanks in large part to coal-burning.
Lead writers of Citigroup’s new note attacks “one of the most unassailable assumptions in global energy”—the forecast that China’s coal consumption will grow wantonly over the next two decades. By extension, it challenges apocalyptic climate change forecasts.
Continue reading… “China may get over its coal addiction faster than anyone thought”
Researchers at Rice University have developed a supercapacitor that can operate at very high temperatures, using clay as a key ingredient.
Continue reading… “Researchers develop a new supercapacitor for energy storage at high temperatures”
31 percent of South Australia’s total energy came from renewable sources in 2012 and 2013.
In South Australia, one in five houses already has a rooftop solar array. Twenty-seven percent of that region’s power is derived from wind energy. New figures released by the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) predict that thanks to new sources of wind and solar power in development, the area could source half of its energy from renewables within the decade. This would make South Australia the first industrialized region to achieve such an accomplishment, surpassing other green-power giants like Denmark and Germany.
Continue reading… “South Australia to reach 50% renewable energy within 10 years”
Buildings in the U.S. consume a lot of energy.
The United States has a massive energy inefficiency problem. The amount of energy wasted by the US economy in 2012, could power the United Kingdom for 7 years.
Continue reading… “America uses 11 times more energy than the UK but only has 5 times more people”
Global energy storage market share chart via Navigant Research
Due to government funding, energy storage technology is seeing serious returns on investments around the world with distinctly focused industries taking shape in Europe, North America, and Asia.
Continue reading… “Worldwide there are 633 energy storage projects now underway”
This breakthrough could lead to the creation of long-range quantum networks.
University of Darmstadt scientists in Germany have stopped light for one minute. Light is usually the fastest thing in the known universe and travels at 300 million meters per second, but was stopped dead still inside a crystal for one full minute. This effectively creates light memory, where the image being carried by the light is stored in crystals. Beyond being utterly cool, this breakthrough could lead to the creation of long-range quantum networks — and perhaps, tantalizingly, this research might also give us some clues on accelerating light beyond the universal speed limit.
Continue reading… “Light completely stopped for 1 minute inside a crystal”
World Bank president Dr. Jim Yong Kim has called for action on climate change.
Last week, the World Bank announced that is largely turning away from providing funding for coal-fired power plants, except in rare situations where there is no feasible alternative.
Continue reading… “World bank turns away from coal-fired power”
Revegetation and creation of green jobs through profitable production of food, freshwater, biofuels and electricity.
The Sahara Forest Project in Qatar is putting together a number of different systems in a complex project intended to “produce food, fresh water and clean energy in deserts using seawater.” The project uses a number of different systems where the waste by-products from one process are used as feedstock for another. It began by focusing on what was readily abundant: seawater, sun, and desert sand, and looking to what was needed: food, energy, and clean water.
Continue reading… “Sahara Forest Project – multi-technology synergy to grow food in the desert”
Wind power
The final update of the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) of 2012 global wind power installation numbers has recently been published. Now Clean Technica has updated the “Top Wind Power Countries” lists. They are all about looking at relative rankings (or creating them when they don’t yet exist). That simply tells us much more about who the true clean energy leaders are than looking at total installation numbers.
Continue reading… “Top wind power countries in the world”
A new energy source from fractional hydrogen will allow a gallon of ordinary water to become energy.
A remarkable new energy source from fractional hydrogen will allow a gallon of ordinary water to become the energy equivalent of 200 barrels of oil, a team of physicists working near the onetime laboratories of Thomas Edison and Albert Einstein are saying.
Continue reading… “Hydrino Theory validated by Harvard tests”
An innovator in high-performance, cost-efficient wind energy technology is SheerWind. Initial field-testing results have been announced which compares INVELOX commercial-grade wind energy generation with the same turbine on a traditional tower-mounted system.
Continue reading… “SheerWind wind turbine can generate 600% more energy than conventional turbines”
Lab demonstration of the group’s new lithium-polysulfide flow battery contained in a simple flask.
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University scientists have developed a relatively cheap, long-life “flow” battery that can be used to mitigate power fluctuations from solar and wind energy plants, therefore enabling them to become major suppliers to the electrical grid.
Continue reading… “New battery design efficiently stores solar and wind energy”
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