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With the aviation industry contributing around 2 percent of global carbon emissions, the sector must find a way to go greener. While many industries are beginning to decarbonise operations, some are finding it extremely difficult to find the right path to cleaner operations. The aviation sector has long relied on …

Local authorities in the Greater Manchester area in the UK have issued planning permission to UK energy infrastructure development company Carlton Power to build what would be the world’s largest battery energy storage scheme, which will cost $963 million (£750 million). Carlton Power plans to build and operate a 1GW …

Czechia will build its first small modular reactor in 2032 to increase energy security and climate protection in a project backed by Czech President Petr Pavel, who stressed the role of nuclear energy in the country’s future energy mix. Czechia already has two conventional nuclear plants in Temelín and Dukovany …

NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) are teaming up to explore one of the biggest puzzles of the Universe: dark energy. A new space telescope, Euclid, which will explore the dark Universe, is launching in July on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida. With an …

China has been leading the electric vehicles (EV) manufacturing race in recent years, and now the region can expect a big EV infrastructure boost to promote the uptake of environmentally friendly vehicles. Both China and India expect to see huge investments in their EV industries, with the construction of thousands …

Mitsubishi Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. has entered a deal for technical studies on technologies that would enable ammonia to be used to power vessels. The agreement with Winterthur Gas & Diesel AG (WinGD) will test the gas commonly used for fertilizers on “large, low-speed two-stroke marine engines” currently being developed by …

NASA has launched its 28th commercial resupply mission with SpaceX, sending 7,000 pounds of cargo to the International Space Station. A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft propelled by a Falcon 9 rocket will bring several measurement instruments, as well as two roll-out solar arrays. The International Space Station Roll Out Solar Arrays …

Tesla CEO Elon Musk made a bold prediction in 2017: “Everything will go fully electric, apart from (ironically) rockets. Ships are the next easiest to solve after cars.” Six years later, the world’s second-richest person might be right about the next battery boom in ships. Japanese battery startup PowerX Inc. …

Countries around the world seem to be in a race to set up solar power plants in space and beam energy back to Earth. The United Kingdom and China have already displayed interest in building such a technology and now, Japan seems to be the latest member to join the …

Ford Motor Company has reached an agreement with Tesla Motors that will provide Ford’s EV customers access to more than 12,000 Tesla Superchargers across the United States and Canada. The deal will double the number of fast chargers available to Ford EV customers starting in the spring of 2024, the …