Siemens, the largest industrial manufacturing company in the EU, announced plans to develop a massive battery research and manufacturing facility in Canada this week. The news...
Large-Scale Energy Storage Needed There is a growing need for battery systems that can hold a lot of power for several hours or days. This is...
Deindustrialization Long Trend Since the end of WW2, a very long-term and structural tendency of the US economy has been deindustrialization. This is a term that...
Nuclear Power In Everything? When nuclear power generation became a practical technology, it gave hope that the energy that had so far only been used to...
The global average surface temperature is already about 1.2 °C above pre‑industrial levels, causing extreme weather events that pose a risk to humans, animals, and infrastructure....
In the world of lighting and display tech, light-emitting diodes or LEDs have been leading the market thanks to their energy efficiency, long lifespan, and ability...
Finding The Right Hydrogen Catalyst Hydrogen could, in theory, be a perfect fuel to store energy and power applications that are hard to electrify. This is...
Green Energy At Scale As our energy systems transition to green energies, at least three major challenges are still to be solved. The first one is...
A clean energy transition is happening all over the world as the worsening climate crisis creates an urgent need to decarbonize energy systems. Unlike fossil fuels...
Many Ways To Split Atoms Nuclear power is often associated with massive power plants, giant cooling towers, and the fear of nuclear meltdown. This is progressively...
Driven by global decarbonization efforts, the growth of electric vehicles (EVs) is projected to continue at a rapid pace, accounting for more than half of worldwide...
Pine Tree Battery As renewables are becoming a larger part of the power grid, as well as many systems becoming electrified, like heating and transportation, more...
Solid-state batteries are in focus these days. It is steadily gaining traction with consumer electronics and electric vehicles, constituting the largest share of the global solid-state...
Batteries Made To Last As the world electrifies and switches to renewable energy, the need for more energy storage grows. This is in part driven by...
A team of innovative researchers just released a study demonstrating how alumina nanoparticles can extend solar panel life tenfold. As the global community approaches its goal...
