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  Grid optimisation

  Balancing act

  Harnessing the sun’s power: closer integration of solar farms with battery storage, e-mobility and heat pumps could enable the PV sector to continue to grow without compromising grid stability

  16 Dec 16, Sascha Rentzing 0

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  Fuel cells

  Hydrogen comes closer to ousting fossil fuels

  Travelling by air and rail could be about to become much cleaner. The world’s first four-seater passenger plane powered by hydrogen rather than fossil fuels has recently completed its maiden flight at Stuttgart airport.

  15 Dec 16, Astrid Dähn 0

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  Bioenergy

  Used with more care

  In a new development strategy German biomass research institutions seek to answer the question how tu use bioenergy with more care.

  18 Mar 15, Sascha Rentzing 1

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  Smart home

  Nest gains home access

  Google-owned home automation company Nest is continuing its rapid expansion by prodding ever more companies from the appliances and smart home sector to join its open software collaboration, dubbed "Works with Nest”.

  16 Jan 15, Isaac Bah 0

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  Climate Change Performance Index

  Northern Europe is the greenest of them all

  The Climate Change Performance Index 2015 compares 58 top CO2 emitting nations. Scandinavia is top, Australia a flop. Morocco conquers the top ten.

  15 Jan 15, Tim Altegör 0

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  Climate Change

  Scientists issue hands-off warning for fossil fuel reserves

  Keeping global warming below the 2 degree level means limiting cumulative carbon emissions to 1,100 gigatonnes till 2050. But a new study says that might prove illusory as the emissions contained in present day estimates of global fossil fuel reserves are around three times higher than this.

  14 Jan 15, Isaac Bah 0

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  Fuel cell technology

  Toyota follows Tesla’s lead

  Good ideas are best shared – including patents, at least according to the announcement by Japanese car manufacturer Toyota that it is making more than 5,600 of its patents for hydrogen fuel cell technology available free of charge, in the hope that the initiative will spur development and introduction of innovative fuel cell technologies around the world.The announcement, made at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, comes only months after Elon Musk, founder and CEO of...

  12 Jan 15, Isaac Bah 1

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  Need-based beaconing

  Radar on, lights off

  The flashing lights on wind turbines are an annoyance for people living nearby. Some German companies are now marketing radar technology that can detect aircraft and turn the lights on only when they are needed. Who will win the race?

  18 Dec 14, Bernd Müller 0

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  Carbon capture and storage

  A costly proposal

  The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) sees carbon capture at coal-fired power plants as a key technology in the fight against climate change. The technology itself will soon be ready for market, but the high costs and unresolved storage issue will hamper its introduction.

  15 Dec 14, Sascha Rentzing 0

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  IPCC report

  Climate or coal?

  The world must act quickly to reduce its CO2 emissions – or face major catastrophe. But politicians are failing to ensure that fossil fuels are systematically replaced by renewables.

  15 Dec 14, Jörg-Rainer Zimmermann 0

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