Renewable Energy

One country's solar energy storage problems

Batteries and hydrogen/methane storage techniques are sorely needed to store the energies we are creating from wind or sunlight, but the ageing networks can be replaced with new, and some...

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Make your Ecological Footprints (Seize Your Power)

The classic forest and ocean stewardship we all must seize from non-competent conservation. La Digue island shows us the way; La Digue Image; Credit: © Shutterstock With Earth Overshoot Day...

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Photovoltaic Summer!

This field of photovoltaics in Germany represents part of the massive German investment within the renewable energy sector; PV image Credit: Shutterstock When the sun shines and the wind blows,...

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Fracking Nonsense

The Tudors put up Cowdray House in West Sussex, in England. The Tories may bring more than these ancient castles down, unless fracking fails to cause earth tremors (for the...

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Photosynthetic solar power

The light used in photosynthesis doesn't have to be used by green plants. Instead, scientists have dreamt for generations of using that powerful sunlight to create all the energy we...

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Renewable energy rules

Iceland is foremost among geothermal energy producers, having the youngest land surface and therefore the most natural capacity; Geothermal image; Credit: © Shutterstock Geothermal energy seems, to the casual observer,...

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Congo Hydroelectric May-be's

The enormous River Congo and the equally big forest hinterland is green here - without any renewable energy schemes! It has the record of world's deepest river, at 220m (720ft)and...

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A revelation for solar-powered hydrogen generation

A side view of a MIS photoelectrode with a metallic collector situated on an insulator-covered semiconductor. Photocurrent is created and passes down through the array, causing hydrogen to pass upward...

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Biofuel Progress without Enzymes

Ning Sun of the Joint BioEnergy Institute was lead author on a paper describing an enzyme-free ionic liquid pretreatment of switchgrass, Panicum virgatum, that can help boost the production of...

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It's a gas! (or coal or oil)

This Yangtse coal boat is carrying more fuel for China's burgeoning carbon dioxide production; Yangtse coal boat; Credit: © Shutterstock China and other rapidly developing nations are leading the greenhouse...

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