Hope Hot Glass, but a Cooler Climate Glass blowing, an ancient art that has always had a dreadful carbon footprint, finds ways to improve.
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.
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.
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
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.
Greenhouse Gases 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.
Hope Storing Energy from Renewables and/or Waste Heat for Industrial Processes System to store renewable energy as high-temperature heat for industrial processes
Birds Feeders lead hummingbirds by the beak Backyard hummingbird feeders present an environmental shift and an opportunity for species change through natural selection.
Materials Steel Steel is one of the pillars of modern civilization but its production emits far more CO2 than the aviation industry. Material substitutes for steel simply don’t exist on the kind of scale needed. Reducing the carbon impact of steel production faces major technical and economic challenges.
Hope Extracting Water from Desert Air with Bio-inspired Materials Getting water from desert air, like a frog
The Day Bores Became Exciting Oilfield down-hole skills may lead to viable large-scale closed-loop geothermal. It's a trend to watch.
Solar 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.
Can Ticks Invade Canada Faster? Some North American tick species seem to be expanding northward more quickly than their physiological cold tolerance allows. A new paper proposes an explanation.
