Miscellaneous

Verbund and Sunfire researching the use of green hydrogen as a natural gas substitute

Monday, 01 April 2019 Robin Whitlock Austria’s largest electricity supplier, Verbund, is building a pilot plant at a thermal power plant site in Mellach, Austria, where the Graz University of Technology and the German cleantech specialist ...

Stanford Researchers Create hydrogen Fuel from Seawater

Tuesday, 19 March 2019 REM Researchers at Stanford University have devised a way to generate hydrogen fuel using only solar power, electrodes and saltwater. The findings, published March 18 in Proceedings of the National Academy ...

Australia

Real policy support needed to boost the potential of clean hydrogen says CEC

Friday, 01 March 2019 Robin Whitlock While the Federal Government’s support for hydrogen to date is welcome, tangible policy initiatives and an extension to the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) are needed to unlock a huge potential ...

Australia

hydro is a perfect partner to wind and solar in Australia says CEC

Wednesday, 27 February 2019 Robin Whitlock The effectiveness and long heritage of one of Australia’s most well-established technologies, hydro power, makes it a perfect partner to complement wind and solar in the country, the Clean Energy Council ...

Australia

Billion dollar plan could supercharge Australian hydrogen industry

Thursday, 24 January 2019 Robin Whitlock A billion-dollar plan announced by federal Labor could supercharge a clean hydrogen export industry and create new jobs in regional parts of Australia, the Australian Clean Energy Council (CEC) said recently. ...

Researchers Develop Artificial Photosynthesis System that Generates Both hydrogen Fuel and Electricity

Tuesday, 30 October 2018 Dan McCue Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP), a DOE Energy Innovation Hub, have come up ...

GenCell Energy Unveils Affordable Off-Grid Primary Power Fuel Cell Solution

Tuesday, 05 June 2018 Dan McCue

GenCell Energy headquartered in Israael, has unveiled its GenCell A5 off-grid power solution. The company states it is the world’s first affordable primary power alternative to diesel generators.

Evaporation Could Provide Reliable Renewable Energy Source

Wednesday, 27 September 2017 Dan McCue According to a recently published study, a major source of renewable energy is hiding in plain sight just waiting to be tapped. Researchers at Columbia University claim evaporation from US lakes and dams ...

Ancient Technology Could be Utilized for Modern Energy Storage

Friday, 08 September 2017 Dan McCue FIRES (FIrebrick Resistance-heated Energy Storage), an energy storage system designed by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) utilizes technology dating back thousands of years. ...

France Proposes Ban on Oil and Gas Production by 2040

Wednesday, 06 September 2017 Dan McCue Nicolas Hulot, Minister of State, Minister of Ecological and Solidarity Transition, today presented a bill to the French Cabinet to end research and exploitation of conventional and unconventional hydrocarbons ...