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The Nuance of Greenhouse Gas

The Nuance of Greenhouse Gas

... or how to win at climate change trivia
21 Aug 2025 4 min read
A toddler, picking up the tricks of recycling at an early age.
Hope

Teach your children well

If we have hope, it will be realized from the impact of coming generations.
17 Aug 2025 2 min read
Science Is Not Enough
Science

Science Is Not Enough

The gap between peer-reviewed certainty and public indifference creates problems.
12 Aug 2025 5 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.
Hope

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
Wind

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
Photograph of front of 1928 21-storey brick-clad high rise building, from ground perspective, looking straight up.
Historical Perspective

Oil Shocks and Microchips

How buildings learned to stop wasting and start thinking
05 Aug 2025 8 min read
Aerial view of a temperate coastline showing clear blue ocean water and clean white breakers rolling into a little bay.
water

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.
Hope

Reusable Hospital Isolation Gowns

Radically reducing the biggest source of hospital waste for GHG and cost reductions
02 Aug 2025 2 min read
This is our little example of how media behaviour can attract attention. We've put up a picture of a big, ugly vulture to get everybody's attention. Hey, we made you look!
Media

Modelling Media Misbehaviour: A First Step

A new paper helps us understand why media behave so badly so much of the time.
29 Jul 2025 6 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.
Hope

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
Hope

Gravity Energy Storage

Using the whole planet to store energy!
22 Jul 2025 2 min read
Cook Islands: A Cautionary Tale

Cook Islands: A Cautionary Tale

Canaries and coal mines and coconuts!
22 Jul 2025 7 min read
A cluttered hot-glass workbench in Murano, Italy. A glass artist is making ornamental "murrine" out of pulled glass cane.
Hope

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
Solar

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 panels and wind turbines on a grassy field.

Energy Grid and Beyond

How did your get your coffee today?
15 Jul 2025 7 min read
Solar Takes Over
Solar

Solar Takes Over

Fossil fuels are so last decade
14 Jul 2025 2 min read
Two-axis graph, showing % of net energy out as a function of EROI. EROI starting at 50 and declining precipitously below EROI of about 5
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Science

EROI and The Net Energy Cliff

13 Jul 2025 9 min read
Concept Source: Princeton Public Library. “Misinformation, Disinformation & Malinformation: A Guide.”
Climate Change

Misinformation, Disinformation, Malinformation, and Distrust of Climate Science

Misinformation, disinformation and malinformation are forms of rampant pollution of the information ecosystem. This pollution is toxic, promoting distrust in science, and holding back efforts to combat climate change.
08 Jul 2025 10 min read
Insulation and claddidng being added to a large cylinrical steel tank that is under construction
Greenhouse Gases

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
Hope

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
Tiny green frog, doing her best to match a green leaf.
Climate Change

How Not To Be a Boiled Frog

Blink.
01 Jul 2025 8 min read
A giant clump of electrical transmission hardware. Looks a little like Dr. Frankenstein's setup, TBH.
Measurement

Efficiency Gains via Electrification, or Why We Should Electrify Everything We Can

Decarbonizing the economy by electrifying everything in it will mean we need less total energy.
24 Jun 2025 6 min read
Lost, So Small Amid That Dark
Hope

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
Hope

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
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