Hydrogen stored in iron: A cheap, scalable grid battery for the winter

Researchers at Switzerland's ETH Zurich have devised a cheap and safe way to store hydrogen in ordinary steel-walled containers for months without losing it into the atmosphere – using iron.

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Spaceship tech slashes energy usage of existing AC systems by 50%

Helix Earth Technologies has repurposed a technology originally developed to filter air on spacecraft to develop a system that can be retrofitted to existing commercial air conditioning units and slash their energy usage.

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Giant dual-rotor wind turbine takes to the seas

The world's largest single-capacity floating wind platform has set to sea and the builder released images of the operation. Mingyang’s OceanX is set to travel 191 nm (220 miles, 354 km) over the next three days to its final offshore destination.

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Supercritical geothermal power: Limitless promise or impossible dream?

Supercritical geothermal power holds the promise of meeting humanity's energy needs for millions of years, but how practical is it? A new analysis by Karthik Subramanian of Lux Research suggests that it may lie somewhere between improbable and impossible.

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World’s first 18650-sized potassium-ion battery aims to fill lithium gap

The majority of our portable electronic gadgets, and the new wave of e-transportation, are powered by lithium batteries. Group1 has developed a more sustainable alternative, and has now launched the world's first 18650 potassium-ion battery.

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World-first wind turbine tech puts an 8-megawatt charger on an oil rig

In the Belgian North Sea, maintenance vessels are now able to tether to an automatic cable at a wind farm to get their batteries topped up. The innovative system is the first of its kind and a major step in helping reduce emissions from shipping.

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Massive 40-MW floating wind turbine array wins major tick of approval

Wind Catching Systems has received an important tick of approval for its enormous 40-megawatt Windcatcher offshore floating wind turbine array, as it prepares to build a full size demonstrator project off the Norwegian coast.

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Massive Australia-to-Singapore clean energy cable gets green light

The world's largest renewable energy and transmission project has received key approval from government officials. The Australia-Asia Power Link project will send Australian solar power to Singapore via 4,300 kilometer-long undersea cables.

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World’s first dual-tower solar thermal plant boosts efficiency by 24%

Two 650-foot-tall towers have risen in China's Gansu Province. Combined with an array of 30,000 mirrors arranged in concentric circles, the new facility is expected to generate over 1.8 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity every year.

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Geothermal fracking plant scores world-record energy contract in Utah

Just a year ago, Fervo Energy successfully demonstrated the effectiveness of its horizontally oriented geothermal system. Now the company has landed a massive contract for providing its clean, virtually endless power to the California grid.

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