Energy

Which technologies will enable a cleaner steel industry?

Technologies like hydrogen-based direct reduction of ore, electrolysis, and advanced furnace technologies could reduce steel emissions.

Daniel Boero Vargas and Mandy Chan | World Economic Forum

Two offshore wind turbines amid turbulent sea waves under a cloudy sky.

Clean Energy

Six innovative ways to float skyscraper-sized wind turbines

While most offshore wind farms are firmly rooted in the seabed, engineers are developing new ways to float enormous wind turbines.

Emma C. Edwards

Oil pumpjack operating in the oil fields under a twilight sky.

Disaster Response

Shining a light on oil fields to make them more sustainable

Sensors and analytics give oil well operators real-time alerts when things go wrong, so they can respond before they become disasters.

Zach Winn | MIT News Office

Clean Energy

New battery is cheaper than lithium-ion with four times the capacity

A new type of room temperature sodium-sulfur (RT Na-S) battery could help solve the renewable energy storage problem.

Kristin Houser

Clean Energy

Extra-salty lithium battery less likely to catch fire

Stanford researchers have developed a battery electrolyte that can allow lithium-ion batteries to operate safely at much higher temperatures.

B. David Zarley

Clean Energy

Construction juggernaut unveils huge electric mining truck

Construction equipment manufacturer Caterpillar has demonstrated its first battery-electric large mining truck.

Kristin Houser

Clean Energy

This meteorite material could power our clean energy future

A lab-made version of tetrataenite, a mineral found in meteorites, could replace rare earth elements in the production of permanent magnets.

Kristin Houser

Climate Crisis

Quantum computer designs heat-radiating window coating

Notre Dame researchers have used quantum computing to design a transparent window coating that reflects heat into the atmosphere.

Kristin Houser

Clean Energy

Your house could become a rechargeable cement battery. Here’s how.

Rechargeable cement batteries could allow for whole sections of multi-storey buildings to be made of functional concrete.

Emma Charlton, World Economic Forum

This cheap material could capture CO2 from power plants before it pollutes the atmosphere

The simple compound costs just a fraction of similar carbon-capturing materials.

Stephen Johnson

Climate Crisis

NASA detects 50+ methane “super-emitters” from space

A new instrument aboard the International Space Station has been used to identify more than 50 “super-emitters” of methane.

Kristin Houser

Clean Energy

Molten salt reactors could save nuclear power

Molten salt reactors, a type of nuclear reactor first explored in the 1950s, could be the future of clean energy.

Kristin Houser

Animals

Wild mammals are making a comeback in Europe thanks to conservation efforts

Many large mammals in Europe were close to extinction. New data shows us that the continent’s mammal populations are flourishing again.

Hannah Ritchie | Our World in Data

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