Arable land is always at a premium. Since the last ice age, humans have cleared one-third of the earth’s forests and two-thirds of its wild grasslands, much of it for agriculture. And as the world’s population – 8 billion last November – continues to expand, there is increasing pressure on farmland to produce not only […]
Chinese solar giant JA Solar has announced plans to build a new manufacturing facility in Phoenix, Arizona that will produce high performance photovoltaic (PV) solar panels. The new JA Solar plant represents a $60 million investment in Arizona manufacturing. That investment will pay for advanced, highly automated assembly lines that produce high-efficiency solar panels (PV […]
The conversion of solar energy into hydrogen energy represents a promising and green technique for addressing the energy shortage and reducing fossil fuel emissions. A research team from City University of Hong Kong (CityU) recently developed a lead-free perovskite photocatalyst that delivers highly efficient solar energy-to-hydrogen conversion. Most importantly, they unveiled the […]
When record rainfall caused flooding in south-east Queensland last February, Steve McLean’s solar installers stayed off their roofs, blowing a $60,000 hole in his company’s budget and setting back what could to have been another record year for his business. “If we didn’t do a system for five weeks, you can imagine nobody else did. […]
Behind the “billionaire biffo” between Mike Cannon-Brookes and Andrew Forrest over the future of Sun Cable is a project that analysts are calling “visionary” but also “extremely ambitious”. In Australia’s first major business story of the year, Sun Cable was placed into voluntary administration on Wednesday. It signaled the company could not make debt payments […]
A novel technique called Underground Gravity Energy Storage turns decommissioned mines into long-term energy storage solutions, thereby supporting the sustainable energy transition. Renewable energy sources are central to the energy transition toward a more sustainable future. However, as sources like sunshine and wind are inherently variable and inconsistent, finding ways to store […]
