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Hypnetic Puts the Power of Pumped Energy Storage Into Shipping Containers
Hypnetic, a German startup, has developed a way to retrofit shipping containers with an innovative pumped energy solution – minus the reservoirs.
Is Hydrogen Storage the Future of Renewable Energy?
There are many potential ways to store surplus renewable energy, but hydrogen is emerging as one of the most promising. New advances are making it cleaner and more practical.
Energy Storage Systems: The Linchpin of the Energy Transition
Is it possible for heavily industrialized nations to create energy security with renewable power alone? Yes, it is! However, one of the most important factors in achieving this is efficient storage technologies.
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Financial Anxiety Deepens Younger Generations’ Climate Change Concerns
Climate change is among several deep concerns Millennials and Gen Z have about the state of the world, and the growing inability to finance solutions is only making things worse.
A Bright Future? How the Next Generation of Solar is Overcoming its Many Challenges
Solar power is one of the best-known sources of renewable energy, but it is still only responsible for 3 percent of global electricity. What’s keeping it back and how can it further develop?
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People Power: Making the Energy Transition Through Prosumership
Grassroots activism, favourable regulations, financial incentives, and good, old-fashioned peer pressure are key to the energy transition.
Tubesolar: Can Tubular Solar Panels Crack the Agrovoltaic Dilemma?
The combination of solar power generation and agriculture – agrovoltaics – comes with benefits and problems. Can a new design generate electricity and increase crop yields?
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Social Media Platforms’ Climate Misinformation Leads to Action Delay – Report
Climate change denial confuses the truth by overwhelming us with misleading claims and questions. These are designed in bad faith to confuse the debate so action is delayed. But in the times when the most powerful tool of spreading information is social media, do we really know how they deal with climate disinformation?
Tidal Power: The New Wave of Hydroelectricity?
Hydropower is one of humanity’s oldest forms of energy, but there are still vast areas of the sector left unexplored.
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100 Percent Renewable Energy Needs Efficiency and Intelligence. Interview with Severin Beucker (Borderstep Institute)
How can we successfully transform our energy system towards climate neutrality? For Severin Beucker, co-founder of the Borderstep Institute, the most important prerequisites are efficient and intelligent grids and consumers.
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Waste Heat: What it is and How to Convert it to Energy
What if the heat from, say, server farms or subway tunnels can be used to warm homes? Waste heat recovery technologies seek to close the energy loop.
A Windy Future: Can Wind Power Lead our Clean Energy Revolution?
Bob Dylan famously claimed “the answer is blowin’ in the wind”. Does the same apply for our growing energy and environmental crisis?