Collaborate Disseminate
I’m fascinated by products you didn’t know you wanted, until you saw them. One of my favorite examples is the Honda Motocompo, a cute, foldable motorcycle designed to fit in the trunk of the compact Honda City car from the 1980s. It was a neat little m… Continue reading Honda patents a pop-out, rideable EV range extender
Mingyang Smart Energy said last week that it’s installed “the world’s largest single-capacity offshore wind turbine” in a project in Hainan, China. The turbine delivers a power output of up to 20 MW, besting its previous 18 MW model from 2023.
Tags: Offshore Wind, Wind turbine, World’s Largest
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Sweden’s Enerpoly has flung open the doors to its zinc-ion battery megafactory in the north of Stockholm – making it the first manufacturing facility to use this battery technology at a large scale in the world.Continue ReadingCategory: Energy, Science… Continue reading World’s first zinc-ion battery megafactory opens for business
In another instance of AI making itself genuinely useful, researchers at the University of Toronto (UoT) have identified a better catalyst for the production of green hydrogen using AI – saving themselves years in experimentation.Continue ReadingCatego… Continue reading AI saves researchers years in finding a better green hydrogen catalyst
While hydrogen’s high energy per mass makes it an excellent fuel, it’s awfully hard and expensive to store long-term. That could change, thanks to the work of researchers at Switzerland’s ETH Zurich. They’ve worked out a way to store hydrogen in ordina… Continue reading Hydrogen stored in iron: A cheap, scalable grid battery for the winter
Three Danish energy tech firms have flung open the doors to the first ever green ammonia plant in the world, in the town of Ramme, Denmark.
Tags: World’s First, Clean Energy, Ammonia, Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Continue reading World’s first green ammonia plant is now open for business
We’re a tad late to the news on this one, but we’re no less excited to bring it to you heavy machinery nerds. Australia’s Fortescue is teaming up with Liebherr Mining to develop an autonomous mining truck that will, in addition to driving itself, be th… Continue reading Fortescue’s got a self-driving 240-ton hauler in the works
You know how EVs and practically anything else that runs on lithium batteries aren’t really all that ‘green’ because producing lithium takes a huge toll on the planet?Continue ReadingCategory: Materials, ScienceTags: Lithium metal, Mining, Metals Continue reading Stanford breakthrough promises 50% cheaper, cleaner lithium extraction
We’re caught in a vicious circle of facing increasing temperatures across the planet, and combating that with air conditioning – which in turn causes global warming. A problem worth throwing a whole lot of science at, if there ever was one.Continue Rea… Continue reading 48% efficiency boost brings eco-friendly air con a step closer
We were this close to seeing Ecstasy being incorporated into therapy in the US in 2024. Now, we have to wait either a little or a lot – depending on how the chips fall. Let’s have a closer look at where we’re currently at.Continue ReadingCategory: Medi… Continue reading US FDA refuses to approve MDMA for PTSD therapy – now what?