Live Science
China's $1 trillion 'artificial sun' fusion reactor just got five times hotter than the sun
3 min · · The experimental fusion reactor sustained the temperatures for a record-breaking 17 minutes. · Shared by 29, including MariadPDC, Lukas Stickelberger, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA
synhelion.com
Sun-to-Liquid technology turns CO2 and water into fuel
1 min · · The solutions of Synhelion combine CSP with high-temperature thermochemical processes to produce synthetic liquid fuels. · Shared by 8, including Lukas Stickelberger
Forbes
Dark Side To Solar? More Reports Tie Panel Production To Toxic Pollution
8 min · · A major new study of the economics of solar, published in Harvard Business Review, finds that the waste produced by solar panels will make electricity from solar four times more expensive than the… · Shared by 14, including Lukas Stickelberger, almagentia369, Douglas Karr
Infosperber
CO2 im Verkehr: Das Problem ist das Auto, nicht sein Antrieb
4 min · · «Netto null Treibhausgase» und Autos lassen sich nicht miteinander vereinbaren, selbst wenn alle nur noch «Ökostrom» tanken. · Shared by 8, including Lukas Stickelberger
Neue Zürcher Zeitung
Tandem-Solarzelle aus Silizium und Perowskite bricht Rekorde
· Perowskit-Solarzellen sind sehr effizient, Silizium-Solarzellen sogar noch etwas effizienter. Aber erst im Doppelpack entfalten die beiden Halbleitermaterialien ihre volle Schlagkraft. · Shared by 5, including Lukas Stickelberger
The Guardian
'Enormous opportunity': how Australia could become the Saudi Arabia of renewable energy
9 min · · The remote Western Australian town of Kalbarri could find itself at the bleeding edge of a renewables revolution · Shared by 31, including Lukas Stickelberger, Terry Hughes
Carbon Brief
Wind and solar are 30-50% cheaper than thought, admits UK government
9 min · · The most striking result of the new 2020 report is that BEIS has once again slashed its estimates for the levelised cost of wind and solar power. This is illustrated in the chart, below. · Shared by 44, including Robert McSweeney, Tom Raftery, Reto Knutti, George Monbiot, Max Roser, Lukas Stickelberger
BBC News (World)
The ‘solar canals’ making smart use of India’s space
5 min · · Solar energy is clean, but it usually takes up huge tracts of land. In India, an alternative is turning the country’s canals into glittering trails of solar panels. · Shared by 32, including Lukas Stickelberger
WIRED
Why Do Solar Farms Kill Birds? Call in the AI Bird Watcher
2 min · · Solar facilities kill tens of thousands of birds every year, and no one is quite sure why. An artificial-intelligence-powered birder is on the case. · Shared by 40, including Nige Roberts-Willson, Dean Anthony Gratton, Nicolas Babin, Phil (SubStack link in bio) Plait, Sarah-Jayne Gratton, Lukas Stickelberger, Dr. Marcell Vollmer 🇺🇦 #StaySafe #VivaTech, Rick King
VICE
These Are the Closest Pictures of the Sun Ever Taken
2 min · · Shared by 29, including Lukas Stickelberger
BBC News (World)
European space probe sees 'camp fires' on the Sun
5 min · · Solar Orbiter takes the closest ever pictures of the Sun, just 77 million km from the surface. · Shared by 7, including Lukas Stickelberger, 🇬🇧 Tom Kane Author 🇺🇳 #StandWithUkriane 🇺🇦
Neue Zürcher Zeitung
Josef Reichholf über Anthropozän, Klimawandel und die Menschheit
· Man kann geteilter Meinung darüber sein, ob es Sinn ergibt, vom Anthropozän zu sprechen, dem neuen erdgeschichtlichen Zeitalter des Menschen. Aber klar ist: Wir stehen an einem Wendepunkt in der… · Shared by 5, including Lukas Stickelberger
schroders.com
Vorübergehender Rückschlag für die Energiewende durch Covid-19
7 min · · Die Covid-19-Krise und der Ölpreisverfall dürften das Interesse der Verbraucher an der Energiewende dämpfen. Dieser Effekt wird jedoch nur von kurzer Dauer sein. · Shared by 4, including Lukas Stickelberger
Bloomberg
A Million-Mile Battery From China Could Power Your Electric Car
4 min · · The Chinese behemoth that makes electric-car batteries for Tesla Inc. and Volkswagen AG developed a power pack that lasts more than a million miles -- an industry landmark and a potential boon for… · Shared by 20, including Lukas Stickelberger, LARRY ELKAN, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, R.NFT R “Ray” Wang 王瑞光 #1A #AI, MΛRC VIDΛL
The Guardian
Rapid shift to renewable energy could lead Australia to cheap power and 100,000 jobs
3 min · · Ambitious goal requires us to ‘get over the political roadblock’ says Malcolm Turnbull, who backed climate change thinktank’s report · Shared by 37, including Lukas Stickelberger
euronews
Euronews Living | 'Reverse' solar panel technology still works when the sun goes down
1 min · · The special solar cells work the same as their daytime counterparts but in reverse. · Shared by 5, including Lukas Stickelberger