IEA calls for $45 trillion push to halve carbon emissions
Emissions will jump 130 percent and oil demand 70 percent by 2050 unless governments take immediate action to start a new $45 trillion “energy technology revolution,” according to a new International Energy Agency (IEA) report.
Halving emissions by mid-century will require governments to rapidly drive up… Continue Reading
Portable nuclear reactor maker Hyperion gets funding
Hyperion Power Generation wants to sell something that looks a bit like a giant battery to off-grid areas and small towns, filled with a uranium hydride mix that can provide up to about 27 megawatts of energy continuously over a period of several years.
We wrote… Continue Reading
Nuclear innovations — will they lure cleantech capital?
Nuclear power is a bit of a land mine in the field of clean technology. Mention it in any given room of environmentalists, and opinions will explode. Some say nuclear’s terminally unsafe. Others say it’s the only true cleantech solution.
Detractors have kept nuclear innovation limited… Continue Reading