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A toddler, picking up the tricks of recycling at an early age.

Teach your children well

If we have hope, it will be realized from the impact of coming generations.
17 Aug 2025 2 min read
Three-bladed tidal turbine being lowered into place by a large crane into the sea off Scotland's Pentland Firth, cliffs in the background.

Tidal Turbine Bearings and Seals

Critical components for successful long-term tidal turbine operation reach a major reliability milestone.
10 Aug 2025 1 min read
Tapered white cylindrical object 8 metres tall, in front of workers and truck, background of treeless plain and distant hills

Bladeless Wind Generators

A Spanish company is developing wind generators that exploit the vortex-shedding effect. The tapered towers have no rotating parts.
08 Aug 2025 2 min read
Aerial view of a temperate coastline showing clear blue ocean water and clean white breakers rolling into a little bay.

More Fish in the Sea

Marine preservation areas work well when properly managed. That's great ... because we need them.
03 Aug 2025 3 min read
Photo of a worker passing a yellow hospital isolation gown over a light table to inspect it for defects.

Reusable Hospital Isolation Gowns

Radically reducing the biggest source of hospital waste for GHG and cost reductions
02 Aug 2025 2 min read
Blocky illustraion of plastic bag with a red NO circle imposed over it, with text "say no to single-use plastic bags" to the left.

Do Plastic Bag Bans Work?

Mostly they do, with caveats.
24 Jul 2025 1 min read
Very large cube-shaped building, about 100 metres per side, under construction, with wind turbines on flat land  in the background

Gravity Energy Storage

Using the whole planet to store energy!
22 Jul 2025 2 min read
A cluttered hot-glass workbench in Murano, Italy. A glass artist is making ornamental "murrine" out of pulled glass cane.

Hot Glass, but a Cooler Climate

Glass blowing, an ancient art that has always had a dreadful carbon footprint, finds ways to improve.
18 Jul 2025 2 min read
Aerial photo of parking lot-sized array of white battery modules adjacent to a photovoltaic array and large building

AI Data Centre Powered by Renewables and Used BEV Batteries

Synergistic pairing of renewable energy with used BEV batteries to power AI data centre standalone microgrid.
15 Jul 2025 2 min read
Solar Takes Over

Solar Takes Over

Fossil fuels are so last decade
14 Jul 2025 2 min read
Insulation and claddidng being added to a large cylinrical steel tank that is under construction

Sand Batteries

A company in Finland has brought on line a high-temperature heat storage installation, using crushed local soapstone, to store off-peak and renewable energy for use during peak demand periods
08 Jul 2025 2 min read
Improvements, Still

Improvements, Still

A new 3D printable substrate improves solar distillation by an order.
04 Jul 2025 4 min read
Schematic of new thermodiffusive desalination process
water

New Desalination Technology

Australian researchers have developed a new desalination process that uses less energy than phase change and requires less maintenance than reverse osmosis.
03 Jul 2025 2 min read
Lost, So Small Amid That Dark

Lost, So Small Amid That Dark

Attenborough's long-beaked echidna re-emerges.
21 Jun 2025 2 min read
A pair of two-story tall rectangular brown high temperature heat storage containers next to a boiler house, whose chimney contains a boiler that the storage will replace

Storing Energy from Renewables and/or Waste Heat for Industrial Processes

System to store renewable energy as high-temperature heat for industrial processes
17 Jun 2025 1 min read
An iridescent Anna's hummingbird.

Feeders lead hummingbirds by the beak

Backyard hummingbird feeders present an environmental shift and an opportunity for species change through natural selection.
03 Jun 2025 2 min read
Red truck descending a long hill into a dry valley in the Atacama Desert, low barren mountains in the background

Extracting Water from Desert Air with Bio-inspired Materials

Getting water from desert air, like a frog
01 Jun 2025 1 min read
Sunnay day photo of narrow irrigation canal covered with solar photovoltaic panels, alongside orchards

Covering Canals with Solar PV

A pilot project to reduce evaporation and generate renewable electricity by covering irrigation canals with solar PV has completed its first phase.
24 May 2025 2 min read
A graph of carbon and non-carbon energy sources that slowly converges on 50 percent.

A Month Where Fossil Fuels Fell Behind

"Non-carbon" sources supplied more than half of US electrical power in March
12 May 2025 2 min read
Picture of a cluster of magnolia leaves in sunlight, with light brown branches behind

Printed Circuit Boards Made from Leaves and Pill Coating

Researchers have invented printed circuit boards made from leaves of magnolia trees.
01 May 2025 2 min read
Close shot of a translucent mushroom from a low angle that shows its gills.

Mycelial Proteins: A Little Like Mae West

In a world where the environmental footprint of foods is important, mycelial proteins gain market acceptance.
01 May 2025 3 min read
Modern two-masted commercial sailing ship in New York, with Manhattan skyline in background

The Return of Commercial Cargo Sailing Ships

Modern, purpose-built commercial cargo sailing ships are now sailing trans-Atlantic routes
01 May 2025 2 min read
Open cardboard box with attached lid, containing two smaller green cosmetics boxes cradled in protective packaging made of machine-made, custom-fitted paper origami

Automated Origami Paper Packaging

New machine technology to make custom origami paper packaging
24 Apr 2025 1 min read

When is a wind turbine like an owl?

Wind turbine blade noise reduced by biomimicry.
16 Apr 2025 1 min read

Potatoes for a warming world

New strains of potatoes that maintain production in a warmed climate
13 Apr 2025 2 min read
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