EASAC Commentary on Hydrogen and Synthetic Fuels
No climate benefit from hydrogen unless EU stops subsidies for fossil fuels, says EASAC.
A Low-cost, High Power Density Vanadium Flow Battery Stack
Better batteries thanks to improved stack technology.
Rejuvenating Biomass with Its High Value-added Outputs
Biomass pyrolysis produces coal, an energy vector, but also nanomaterials.
Life in a carbon-neutral world
Some interesting reading about carbon neutral european cities.
Science for the SDGs – Part 7: Energy
There is a double challenge, to change competely global energy production so that everybody get enough without adding greenhouse gases emissions.
Can sub-Saharan Africa achieve sustainable access to energy for all by 2030?
A combination of a new satellites data processing and economical modelling helps to evaluate the possibility to achieve one of the SDG7 target in sub-Saharan Africa: universal access to affordable, reliable and modern energy services.
“Only ecology-based economies can avoid future catastrophe”
In this opinion piece, Fazlun Khalid gives his view about what we should aim after the COVID-19 pandemics. Scientific research is in the programme, and not only for vaccines
Smaller scale solutions needed for rapid progress towards emissions targets
Low-carbon technologies that are smaller scale, more affordable, and can be mass deployed are more likely to enable a faster transition to net-zero emissions.
Science for the SDGs – Part 4: Sustainable and just economies
How can science help to progress toward economics systems that would be more sustainable (and more fair)?
