Two key advantages of fossil fuels are the energy density of the fuel itself and the ease of storing energy that a molecule based fuel …
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A ten year reduction challenge for the USA
In April, at the opening of the White House Climate Summit, President Biden announced the United States Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) for the period up …
Exploring the energy future
Three scenarios, Waves, Islands and Sky 1.5 explore the energy landscape out to 2100 and reveal very different possible pathways forward. All three are transformational …
Powering remote activities
Over the past three weeks I have been on a voyage from Cape Horn to the Cape of Good Hope, specifically Ushuaia to Cape Town. …
The potential for rapid energy transition in North America
Over recent weeks and months there has been considerable discussion in the USA and Canada on clean energy transition pathways, carbon pricing and the Paris …
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Stock, flow and cobalt. Issues for the EV transition.
In Shell’s recently released Sky Scenario, around 1 billion electric passenger vehicles (EVs) could be on the roads as early as the 2040s. These 1 …
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Real costs beginning to emerge?
There was great excitement coming from South Australia recently as the Tesla 100 MW generation capacity, 129 MWh storage battery commenced operation within the electricity …
A solar transportation system?
While Elon Musk is waxing lyrical about the Tesla Model 3, a house with solar roof tiles and batteries both in the house and in …
A new era for aviation?
The pressure to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and the prospect of a world running largely on renewable electricity has sent research and development teams in …
The battery that made headlines
It is hard to imagine that something as mundane as a battery could make national headlines, but that is what happened last week in Australia. …
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