"The boat, called Jellyfishbot, is about the size of a suitcase and so can get into the corners and narrow spaces where rubbish tends to accumulate but which are difficult for cleaners with nets to reach."
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Why We Must Celebrate America’s Natural Gas Boom
"Policies that ignore natural gas’ long and short-term benefits threaten the energy security America worked so hard to achieve. Moreover, impeding domestic energy production would eliminate all means of economic and energy security, while forcing consumers to rely on energy imports from countries who lack the same industry-leading environmental oversight and regulatory framework."
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Volvo’s new electric concept car is a ‘manifesto’ for the future
"Volvo is the latest automaker to lay out a grand vision for how it plans on tackling the twin challenges of electrification and autonomy."
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The future of EV batteries could be found under the sea
"All the battery metals we need to power a billion electric vehicles could be lying on the floor of the Pacific Ocean — but collecting them and turning them into EV batteries is a major challenge."
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Wind Turbine Blade Recycling on the Cusp of Being Possible
The aging of wind turbine blades is an increasingly important issue as many windmills begin to reach the end of their lifespan. According to the University of Strathclyde research, global turbine waste in the United Kingdom will increase five times from 400,000 tonnes per year in 2030 to 2 million tonnes per year by 2050.
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GM Invests In Controlled Thermal Resources For U.S. Lithium Production
GM announced today that it will collaborate with CTR to produce lithium in California.
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Hydrogen Should Be Focused On Cement And Steel, Not Cars
"In an ideal world replete with surplus renewable energy, maybe hydrogen has a future because then its inefficiency is negated by its convenience. But we aren’t in that situation right now, won’t be for decades, and might never be...But if our end goal is combating climate change and global warming, the best place for hydrogen is not cars."
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“Nuclear Batteries” Offer a New Approach to Carbon-Free Energy
"We may be on the brink of a new paradigm for nuclear power, a group of nuclear specialists suggested recently in The Bridge, the journal of the National Academy of Engineering."
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Oklo has a plan to make tiny nuclear reactors that run off nuclear waste
"The face of nuclear energy is changing, and one of the companies working to redefine what nuclear energy looks like is Oklo. The 22-person Silicon Valley start-up has a plan to build mini-nuclear reactors, powered by the waste of conventional nuclear reactors and housed in aesthetically pleasing A-frame structures."
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This Startup Is Using The World’s Biggest Agwaste Product To Filter Water – Its Long Game Is To Transform Global Water Management
"Today, most rice hulls are burnt worldwide–218 billion pounds a year–but cleantech startup Glanris has developed a process to turn rice hulls into water filtration media–a cleantech solution that has the potential to transform both the rice and the water management industry."