Climate modelling is becoming an ever more sophisticated science, but there are still more than 1200 different future pathways outlined in the latest IPPC report, depending on what we humans choose to do next. Now a team of journalists and scientists has assessed those pathways to find out if any of them is genuinely achievable….

Flywheels are an ancient technology going right back to the potters wheels of 3,000BC. But this simple technology is now being developed to provide kinetic inertia that can help stabilise the voltage frequency of utility grids around the world. So could this be another step on the way to full grid decarbonisation in the coming…

Internet usage is projected to account for 20% for all global electricity consumption by 2025. So anything that can help to reduce that catastrophically large number must surely be good thing. Now scientists in Copenhagen have successfully demonstrated a chip that can send enough data every second to cope with the entire internet’s traffic, all…

An abrupt collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC, was the plotline for the 2004 hit movie ‘The Day After Tomorrow’. Thankfully the apocalyptic scenes depicted in that film are not going to happen, but the AMOC system has been weakening for decades and it is likely to grind to a halt at…

Rooftop wind power has been a goal for micro power generators around the world for many years now. There’s no shortage of design ideas, but now there’s a new kid on the block that has no visible moving parts, makes no noise, and generates 50% more power than standard solar PV panels. So how do…

"KEEP 1.5 ALIVE" has been the mantra of recent global climate conferences. But more and more mainstream organisations now say our politicians have already failed, and that average global temperature increases higher than 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels are now inevitable. So, who are we to believe? Help support this channels independence at http://www.patreon.com/justhaveathink…

By 2050, fresh water may be inaccessible to as many as a billion people. Current desalination methods will be using vast amounts of energy to keep up by then, producing no less than 5% of total global greenhouse gas emissions, not to mention untold harm to marine ecosystems from outflow of concentrated brine solution into…

Climate models have been getting more and more sophisticated as the power of super computers has increased exponentially over the last few years. But have all the variables been factored in? A machine is only as good as the person that builds it, after all. Now a new research paper has found some very strange…

Solid State Batteries are on their way folks! And they have been for more than a decade!! No-one’s quite nailed it yet, at least not for mass produced EVs, or aviation. But that could all be changing if NASA’s latest breakthrough is to believed. So is it just more hype, or is there some real…

Lithium ion batteries have been the mainstay of the energy storage market for decades. But with utility scale energy storage projected to skyrocket to 2.5 terawatts by 2040, grid operators are frantically looking for cheaper, more reliable and more environmentally friendly alternatives. Now an ‘old’ energy storage technology has been revitalised and revolutionised for the…