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Energy research

May 2024

  • Can I install a heat pump in my Victorian home?

    Heat pump mythbusters
    Can heat pumps be installed in older properties?

    Critics claim the technology is best suited to newbuilds – but studies reveal success with retrofits and in poorly insulated homes

April 2024

  • An aerial view of a pink sunset and a smokestack (steamstack?) in silhouette in the foreground, pumping out what is apparently steam.

    US aiming to ‘crack the code’ on deploying geothermal energy at scale

    Recent $74m investment made alongside assessment that 10% of electricity could be generated by geothermal by 2050

February 2024

  • An artist’s impression of Cern’s proposed Future Circular Collider.

    Cern aims to build €20bn collider to unlock secrets of universe

    Research lab submits plans for next-generation model at least three times size of Large Hadron Collider

December 2023

  • Illustration for long read about dismantling sellafield nuclear power plant

    The Audio Long Read
    Best of 2023: Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site – podcast

    From January: Nothing is produced at Sellafield any more. But making safe what is left behind is an almost unimaginably expensive and complex task that requires us to think not on a human timescale, but a planetary one. By Samanth Subramanian

November 2023

  • The artificial leaves were tested on the River Cam in and around Cambridge including sites such as the Bridge of Sighs.

    Floating factories of artificial leaves could make green fuel for jets and ships

    Cambridge University scientists develop a device to ‘defossilise’ the economy using sunlight, water and carbon dioxide

July 2023

  • FILE PHOTO: John B. Goodenough, 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner, attends a news conference in London<br>FILE PHOTO: John B. Goodenough, 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner, speaks during a news conference at the Royal Society in London, Britain October 9, 2019. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls/File Photo

    John Goodenough obituary

    American materials chemist who won the Nobel prize for his role in the invention of the rechargeable lithium battery

June 2023

  • Illustration of space-based solar power

    UK innovators get £4.3m to develop space-based solar power

    Minister says technology to collect energy and beam it to Earth could help boost UK’s energy security

April 2023

  • Elia Barbieri's illustration for fusion energy

    The big idea
    The big idea: will fusion power save us from the climate crisis?

    Recent breakthroughs have been wildly hyped – but there’s still reason to hope

February 2023

  • ‘The new system may also create over 28m more long-term, full-time jobs than lost worldwide and require only about 0.53% of the world’s land for new energy – less than the land required for the current energy system.’

    We don’t need ‘miracle’ technologies to fix the climate. We have the tools now

    Mark Z Jacobson
    Wind, water and solar energy is cheap, effective and green. We don’t need experimental or risky energy sources to save our planet

January 2023

  • Wind turbines in California

    ‘No miracles needed’: Prof Mark Jacobson on how wind, sun and water can power the world

  • Illustration for long read about dismantling sellafield nuclear power plant

    The Audio Long Read
    Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site – podcast

  • A module being assembled at the international nuclear fusion project ITER in Saint-Paul-lès-Durance, southern France, on 5 January 2022.

    International nuclear fusion project may be delayed by years, its head admits

  • Sizewell B nuclear power station in Suffolk.

    £50m fund will boost UK nuclear fuel projects, ministers say

December 2022

  • Robin McKie

    Despite the hype, we shouldn’t bank on nuclear fusion to save the world from climate catastrophe

    Robin McKie
  • illustration: sellafield nuclear site glowing an eerie purple in the distance beyond a lush green natural field

    The long read
    Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site

September 2022

  • Crabs in a tank

    Crab and lobster shells could be used to make renewable batteries

    Prototype designed using chemical in crustacean shells remains 99.7% efficient after about 400 hours

June 2022

  • A hydrogen hybrid power plant in Wittenhof, Germany.

    Pollutionwatch
    For hydrogen power to be a climate solution, leaks must be curbed

    Unlike carbon dioxide, hydrogen does not have a direct effect on climate – it affects other pollutants

April 2022

  • The moon rises behind the wind turbines in Scotland.

    Use England’s plentiful brownfield sites for windfarms, urge scientists

    Experts cite Scottish example, with turbines along roads and rail lines, as a way to make better use of ‘cheap, clean’ energy source

January 2022

  • Highview Power’s CryoBattery illustration

    Here’s how to solve the UK energy crisis for the long term – store more power

    Four storage solutions to help Britain keep the lights on deep into the future

February 2021

  • Dovedale National Nature Reserve in the Peak District, Derbyshire, England.

    Powering up: UK hills could be used as energy 'batteries'

    Engineers explore using gentle slopes rather than steep dams or mountains to store electricity
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