The big problem with solar cells is of course that they do not generate any electricity when the sun is not shining. It can be solved by supplementing with electricity from other sources or you take excess electricity when the sun is shining and store it in a battery....
Premium Supporters – click here to listen to the audio of this text.We must reduce carbon dioxide emissions in order to reduce global warming. The culprit is the use of fossil fuels: oil, coal and natural gas. Now there are alternatives in sun and wind, often...
Wind farms located offshore is a great asset in the world’s transition to a low-carbon economy. When wind turbines are placed asea “concrete mats” are placed around the bottom of the towers to protect them from strong tides etcetera. Oftentimes engineers use concrete...
Some of the oil companies are also now beginning to see the end of fossil fuel production. Production will continue for many years to come, but we can see a downward trend. Royal Dutch Shell writes in a strategy document that they expect that they will never produce...
South Korea is one of the countries in Southeast Asia that is most dependent on fossil fuels, but they now want to change that. Last year, the president, Moon Jae-in, presented a Green New Deal that will make the country carbon neutral by 2050, and an important step...
Indonesia, Vietnam, Bangladesh and the Philippines have shut down coal power projects that together would have generated almost 45 gigawatts . That is about a quarter of all coal power capacity in Germany today.All four countries are in great need of energy and the...