Alternative Energy

Aug 04, 2020 at 17:02 | Haley Zaremba

Green hydrogen is red hot. While hydrogen has long been touted as a virtually inexhaustible source of clean energy, with zero carbon emissions since this first element on…

Aug 04, 2020 at 12:26 | Vanand Meliksetian

Not so long ago the energy transition was primarily an idealistic concept driven by environmentalists and researchers. The most important impediment was the high costs of clean technologies.…

Jul 31, 2020 at 18:01 | Irina Slav

China may have saddled itself with as much as $42 billion in unpaid renewable energy subsidies, but it pales in comparison to the…

Jul 31, 2020 at 17:49 | Viktor Katona

Nowadays it is not very frequent that one would hear of a new nuclear project coming onstream in Europe. Perhaps unsurprisingly the Old Continent’s forthcoming nuclear launch takes…

Jul 30, 2020 at 16:09 | Irina Slav

It’s abundant, and it’s emissions-free: the heat from the earth’s mantle that reaches well into the crust and gives deep drillers a headache occasionally is the new star…

Jul 30, 2020 at 15:14 | Alex Kimani

What do The Dark Knight Rises, Back to the Future, Oblivion, and Interstellar have in common? They are sci-fi megahits…

Jul 30, 2020 at 15:00 | Irina Slav

Solar panel installations hit a total 629 GW last year--an increase of 12 percent from 2018. It was also a lot—really a lot—of panels. And in a few years, these panels…

Jul 29, 2020 at 12:10 | Alan Mammoser

The energy system of the future took clearer form this month when the European Commission, the EU’s executive branch based in Brussels, adopted two closely related strategies. Its new Hydrogen…

Jul 24, 2020 at 17:43 | Vanand Meliksetian

In the world of hydropower two factors matter when considering the construction of a dam for electricity production: the movement of large quantities of water and rapid changes…

Jul 24, 2020 at 10:01 | Irina Slav

Russia’s gas giant Gazprom will start producing “clean”, that is, zero-emission, hydrogen beginning in 2024 under a new government plan to develop a hydrogen economy. The plan sees Gazprom…

Jul 17, 2020 at 17:35 | Haley Zaremba

As long as science fiction writers have been imagining it, scientists have been trying to make it a reality. The holy grail of clean energy. The silver bullet…

Jul 16, 2020 at 13:29 | Irina Slav

When the European Union recently announced large-scale hydrogen production plans as part of its green energy future, many in the solar, wind, and natural gas industry rejoiced. But…

Jul 16, 2020 at 13:16 | Haley Zaremba

Why haven’t biofuels taken off? For years they have been touted as the fuel of the future, with high-profile commercial aircraft making headlines for pioneering all-biofuel international flights…

Jul 15, 2020 at 12:55 | Robert Rapier

In a previous article, I analyzed the carbon footprint of producing hydrogen from fossil fuels. That is how over 95% of the world’s hydrogen is…

Jul 15, 2020 at 12:37 | Jon LeSage

Nuclear power has high hopes of coming back as a serious competitor in the utility sector through nuclear fusion, but it’s been requiring massive investments and several more years of…

Jul 13, 2020 at 16:02 | Alex Kimani

After decades of stagnation and multiple false dawns, the hydrogen economy is finally taking off, with some experts predicting that hydrogen could become a globally-traded energy source, just like oil…

Jul 10, 2020 at 16:53 | Irina Slav

Good news is in short supply during any crisis, and this one has been no exception. The energy industry is being pummeled to the ground by low oil…

Jul 09, 2020 at 13:05 | Charles Kennedy

A former Shell executive and a veteran fund manager and former Exxon figure are launching a hydrogen-focused investment fund to great fanfare as governments the world over shift strategy to…

Jul 09, 2020 at 10:18 | Julianne Geiger

APB Corp founder Hideaki Horie has received backing from a swath of Japanese firms to develop a new kind of battery that would significantly decrease production costs and improve safety,…

Jul 08, 2020 at 13:43 | Irina Slav

Big Oil majors have been scrambling to make the most ambitious climate commitments in the industry, planning a pivot to clean energy, talking about net-zero emission bills, solar,…