Winding past the ochre-coloured plateaux of the Bardenas Reales natural park in northern Spain, Roel Grooten nudged me to take my foot off the accelerator. The car continued to barrel down the open stretch of road, its speed dipping only slightly. “It keeps on going,” said Grooten, the lead engineer for the Dutch car company […]
Though ridding the atmosphere of carbon dioxide is one of the main battles in the fight against climate change, one Italian start-up has found a way to turn CO₂ into a weapon against global warming. On Wednesday, Energy Dome launched its first CO₂ battery facility in Sardinia and entered the commercial scaling phase. The company has […]
Every hour, the Earth is bathed in 430 quintillion Joules of energy from the sun. That is more than the amount of energy the whole of humanity consumes in a full year. These staggering figures show the true potential of solar energy for innovation. And the uses of sunshine go beyond solar farms and solar panels on […]
The world is one step closer to nighttime solar power after a breakthrough discovery by Australian scientists. University of New South Wales (UNSW) scientists have found a way to ‘catch’ energy that flows out of the earth at night. “This could mean being able to achieve the ultimate dream of renewable energy: power generation uninterrupted […]
India’s G20 presidency next year offers a “golden opportunity” to accelerate the deployment of renewable energies, environment minister Bhupender Yadav told reporters on April 26 in a meeting with the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). This year is a litmus test for progress, representing a deadline for India’s renewable energy target of 175 gigawatts. While […]
Cost-cutting green home technologies are set to launch in the UK this summer to make it easier and cheaper for homeowners to slash their energy use and carbon footprint. Demand for green home technologies is surging as households look to invest in new equipment to cut their energy bills and reduce reliance on grid power. […]
Energy experts say the Victorian government’s expanded solar rebates scheme will help drive the state’s transition away from gas as it aims to halve its emissions by the end of the decade. Victorian households will be able to access rebates for both solar panels and a solar hot water system under the widening of the […]
Solar power is expected to reach 10% of global power generation by 2030. But the accumulation of dust on the solar panels can reduce output by 30%, while cleaning them uses about 10 billion gallons of water a year. MIT engineers have developed a waterless cleaning method to remove dust on solar installations in water-limited […]
The world’s first completely solar-powered beverage micro-factory started its journey in the spring of 2020, when Swedish startup Wayout International waved its container-sized machine goodbye from the port of Norrköping, south of Stockholm. With shipping options already radically reduced by Covid-19, the micro-factory set out across the Baltic, Atlantic and Mediterranean seas, via the Suez […]
Thailand’s agriculture ministry plans to install solar panels on at least one million of Thailand’s farms in a new pilot project aiming to reduce farms’ electricity bills by 20-30% in 15-20 years. The ministry plans to issue a non-fungible token named “Solar Panels NFT for Thai Farmers” worth around 697 billion baht to legally trade […]
