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By Jo Nova For some reason wind and solar power will not be powering a new EV battery factory in Kansas. Instead the sudden extra demand for electricity will be met by keeping an old coal-fired plant running.

By Jo Nova Once again, batteries just aren’t living up to hopes and dreams. Only a year ago Rolls Royce were excited about the nine-seater P-Volt electric plane — forecasting that it would be carrying customers...

Batteries for handheld devices such as cellphones often need to be disposed of after several years, but researchers at Australia's RMIT School of Engineering have just created a recyclable battery that lasts for up to nine...

By Jo Nova Wade Allison has done a short but devastating analysis for the GWPF. The take home message is that the energy contained in the wind is diabolically more erratic than most people realize. It’s just basic physics...

Gravity batteries are a new technology that supports the generation and storage of renewable energy through regenerative braking and gravity. A recent study on this technology has proved that old mines could be pivotal in...

By Jo Nova The amount of storage America needs for a grid run on erratic wind and solar power is so galactically vast the numbers don’t matter. Because every which way they are calculated, every estimate, the highest...

An Italian startup behind the world's first carbon dioxide battery has signed a deal to export the technology to the U.S. The company says that its technology is the missing link that could supercharge the transition to renewable...

More deadly than man-made climate change Six people have died in New York this year so far due to house fires started by e-bikes. I had no idea. Fires from exploding e-bike batteries multiply in NYC — sometimes fatally...

by Jo Nova Just another day saving the Earth from pollution Highways were shut for 12 hours and people had to seal themselves in their homes for hours.

Australia has added more unreliable wind and solar than anywhere on Earth but when an energy crisis strikes, and those prices are still on fire, the solution is more of the same.

Sometimes it’s not sunny enough to depend on solar power, or windy enough to turn the windmill. So, Finnish researchers have devised a year-round, 24/7 energy source: a battery made from sand.[...]

Someone needs to tell the Australian Energy Minister the bad news about batteries

Is this real or did the Journal, Energy, get punked?

Tobias Trübenbacher, a design student from Berlin, has created a wind-powered lamp post that uses an integrated wind rotor to generate energy and a motion detection system to create an insect-friendly light spectrum.[...]

We all heard about the Tesla Megabattery fire in Victoria last Friday, but you may not know it only started operating on Thursday night. Or that 30 fire trucks and 150 firefighters took 76 hours to get the blazing battery...

Works out how long an investment in an energy storage time shifting system would take to pay back in full. Such systems typically charge a battery during the off peak period and then discharge during the peak period, so saving...