New Process Enables Lithium Mining in Germany

Originally published on The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Whether grid energy storage, electromobility or wearable electronics – lithium-ion batteries have become an integral part of our lives. Millions of tons of lithium are mined in places […]

Post Lockdown Traffic Getting Back to Normal but Air remains Cleaner as Congestion is Down, New Research Suggests

Originally published on University of York Air pollution is lower than expected in some of the UK’s towns and cities, despite a return to almost normal traffic levels, new research shows. Findings by the University of […]

CleanSpark, Inc. & ReJoule Awarded $2.9 Million Dollar Second-Life EV Battery Grant with Support from Ford Motor Company

CleanSpark, Inc. (Nasdaq: CLSK), a diversified software and services company, and ReJoule, a battery diagnostics and optimization company announced that they have been awarded a grant from the California Energy Commission. The grant is approximately $2.9 million and is slated […]

Serpentine Optical Phased Arrays for Scalable Integrated Photonic Lidar Beam Steering

The University of Colorado, Boulder’s news, Leap in lidar could improve safety, security of new technology, by Kelsey Simpkins discusses a new work, a new study published in The Optical Society, by Nathan Dostart, Bohan Zhang, Anatol […]

DOE Awards $100 Million for Energy Frontier Research Centers

Originally published on ENERGY.GOV WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette announced $100 million in funding for 10 Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) to accelerate the scientific breakthroughs needed to build a twenty-first-century energy […]

How to Retire Early: Making Accelerated Coal Phaseout Feasible & Just

Appalachian River Originally published on the Rocky Mountain Institute’s website. By Paul Bodnar,Tamara Grbusic, Sam Mardell. Caroline Ott. Uday Varadarajan For over a century, growing presence of coal smokestacks worldwide signified economic development and progress. Coal supplied […]

German Net Electricity Generation in First Half of 2020: Renewables Reach Record Share of 55.8 Percent

The Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE just presented the data on the net electricity generation for the public power supply for the first half of 2020, which is based on data available on the […]

New Map Shows KXL Pipeline Route, Highlights Risk to Indigenous & Farming Communities

Originally published on the The Indigenous Environmental Network Map can be found here: https://climatealliancemap.org/kxl-map June 25, 2020 (Bemidji, MN) – The Indigenous Environmental Network, in collaboration with the Climate Alliance Mapping Project and the Keystone XL Mapping […]

Norsepower Unveils first Tiltable Rotor Sail Installation with Sea-Cargo Agreement

Two of Norsepower’s largest 35m tall Rotor Sails to be retrofitted onto Ro-Ro operating in the North Sea are predicted to reduce emissions by an estimated 25% HELSINKI – 29 June 2020: Norsepower Oy Ltd., the […]

A Blue-Sky Vision: Clean Energy & Mobility in India’s Recovery

Originally published on the Rocky Mountain Institute’s website. By Ryan Laemel This article was co-authored by Jagabanta Ningthoujam​. We at Rocky Mountain Institute have been working in India for the past five years, supporting government and […]