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More funding and more diversity in STEM are crucial for turning the ambitious goals of the national science statement into a reality.
The most common vapes on the market are single-use, disposable ones. They contain valuable resources, yet aren’t designed to be recycled.
A proposed tariff on electric vehicles may serve its purpose, but fundamental issues with EVs will remain.
For years, the ‘duck curve’ of low daytime demand due to cheap solar power has challenged energy planners. California is showing the solution is storage.
The reason batteries come in so many types has as much to do with history as innovation.
It’s common to see solar panels on rooftops and fields, but they aren’t widespread on cars − yet.
China’s two largest EV battery makers are pledging to slash the cost of their batteries this year. Behind the pledge is a cost war – and new battery chemistries.
The temptation to justify critical minerals mining at all costs is a dangerous fallacy. The social and environmental impacts of poorly mined critical minerals are dire.
Batteries can power life-saving devices when implanted in the body, but they can also be deadly if inserted into cavities or ingested.
Lithium-ion battery fires are becoming increasingly common as electric vehicles spread, and are hard to extinguish. A new approach uses an electrolyte based on a commercial fire extinguisher.
Australia leads the world in rooftop solar per head. Can this small-scale power source be the secret weapon to fire up our struggling transition to net zero?
If big money is going to invest in clean energy and technology, the rules have to be clear. Australia’s launch of a green finance strategy last week was a good start but there is further to go.
More and more motorists are opting for bigger EVs – but there are several environmental concerns to consider.
Nanoparticles can help address a dependency on platinum — a rare and expensive material — to generate clean power.
Storing energy in large pumped hydro schemes sounds simple. But engineering and terrain challenges have put Snowy 2.0 well off track – while grid-scale batteries get better and better
Some power plants don’t have massive smokestacks or cooling towers – or even a central site.
Lithium-ion batteries power many electric cars, bikes and scooters. When they are damaged or overheated, they can ignite or explode. Four engineers explain how to handle these devices safely.
Lithium-ion batteries are holding back the full-scale decarbonization of Canada’s energy grid. Zinc-ion batteries may be the solution.
Our research has found 30,000 farm dams which could be used as energy storage. Solar by day, hydro by night.
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Director of Energy Lancaster and Professor of Physical Chemistry, Lancaster University
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Co-Founder at Relectrify | Graduated PhD in Battery Storage, The University of Melbourne
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Research Group Leader & Senior Research Scientist, CSIRO
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Professor of Energy and Environmental Economics and International Affairs, Penn State
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics, Macquarie University
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Professor of Sustainability, Curtin University
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Associate Professor in Energy and Power Systems; Co-Director - Future Energy, University of Tasmania
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University of Southern Queensland
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Professor, Kyoto University
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Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
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Professor of Science Communication and Chemistry, University of Hull
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Senior Research Fellow, College of Engineering and Computer Science, Australian National University
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Researcher, National Renewable Energy Laboratory