California officials expect zinc energy-storage technologies to help the state attain 100-percent clean energy by 2045, proving cheaper and safer than lithium-ion while holding a charge longer.
“Some of them are looking for 25 to 50 hours of…
2020
California needs batteries. When California is on fire, it needs batteries that can keep a home, a hospital, a fire station, a senior center running longer than the four-hour standard of lithium-ion.
“What's happened that's brought this to bear has…
The longer society waits to address climate change, the more likely climate will change society, according to BP’s chief economist Spencer Dale. The human tendency toward procrastination is just one of the scenarios Dale attempts to model when…
BP’s “Delayed and Disorderly” scenario for the energy sector suggests that energy rationing may be necessary to prevent climate catastrophe, but that doesn’t mean BP expects energy rationing to take place.
“If you can't reduce reductions by energy…
With climate change increasingly difficult to deny, those who would do nothing about it have turned to delay.
European scientists last month catalogued what they call the “Four Discourses of Climate Delay”—arguments that facilitate continued…
The climate-change conversation focused on responsibility to future generations until Greta Thunberg refocused it on present generations, said a renowned theoretical physicist. And that has implications for our coronavirus response.
Princeton…
If the United States elects a new president in November, he or she will encounter a world more united and adamant in support of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.
That unity and ardour stems from U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to withdraw…
Representatives from steel and chemical companies—two of the worst greenhouse-gas emitting industries—say they have clean alternatives under development, but they need government policies that won’t undercut their efforts.
“Policy is so very…
Satellite images showed noxious pollution vanishing over China and Europe when the world shut down in response to the coronavirus pandemic. But on the ground in Milan, environmental economist Valentina Bossetti was puzzled the air wasn’t…
A spate of recent shark attacks off Australia may have the government on the warpath against sharks again, but a famous Australian shark-attack survivor says conserving sharks is tantamount to saving humanity.
Three fatal shark attacks have occurred…
