A report by climate change policy think tanks Sandbag and Agora Energiewende shows that renewables generated more energy than coal in 2017. According to their calculations, renewables as a whole were up from 29.8% to 30% of the EU’s energy mix in 2017. Hydroelectricity was the only green source that was down, at 9.1% from […]
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Model predicts scenarios for power generation using nuclear fusion
Nuclear fusion for the controlled and regular generation of electric power by converting hydrogen into helium and reproducing on a small scale what happens within stars is one of the foremost technological promises for coming decades. So far, only limited results have been achieved in laboratory experiments. Now, a prototype reactor called ITER is under […]
This Chinese battery maker will soon surpass Tesla in capacity
Contemporary Amperex Technology Ltd, or CATL, already sells the most batteries to the biggest electric-vehicle makers in the biggest EV market: China. Now it wants to use proceeds from a pending initial public offering backed by Goldman Sachs to get under the hoods of more European marques and secure customers in the US. The company […]
The Breakneck Rise of China’s Colossus of Electric-Car Batteries
The next global powerhouse in the auto industry comes from a small city in a tea-growing province of southeast China, where an unheralded maker of electric-vehicle batteries is planning a $1.3 billion factory with enough capacity to surpass the output of Tesla and dwarf the suppliers for battery-powered cars by GM, Nissan and Audi. Contemporary […]
Major shipping company tests solar for cargo ships
A new partnership between Eco Marine Power (EMP) and the Japanese ship owner Hisafuku Kisen K.K. of Onomichi will test the world’s first integrated rigid sail and solar power system for ships. Eco Marine Power is a technology-focused company working on ways to introduce renewable energy to the shipping industry. The new solution under development […]
Breakthrough Battery Technology Uses Manganese Sheets
Further demand for high grade, high purity manganese may be driven by new technology thanks to breakthroughs like the new discovery by researchers that using a nanosheet of manganese dioxide increases the performance of lithium-sulphur batteries significantly. High grade, high purity manganese is used as a primary cathode material in lithium-ion manganese batteries or NCM […]
