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Clean or Green technology articles, highlighting the ways in which our innovations in newer technologies and behaviours are changing the world.

  May 06, 2021

There's lithium in them hills ... or at least them German valleys

The trouble with lithium-ion batteries is that there's a shortage of lithium, say cynics; well, we have good news, there could be enough lithium in the Rhine River Valley for 400 million electric vehicles....

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  May 06, 2021

Terrible and wonderful news on climate change

Last week saw quite appealing news on climate change, enough to make you weep, but it also saw an incredibly uplifting report, enough perhaps to create a real sense of optimism about climate change....

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  May 05, 2021

Climate lawsuits are good for the climate and business!

Last week, Germany's constitutional court decided, in an unexpected landmark ruling, that the country's climate law runs in parts against the constitutional rights....

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  May 04, 2021

97 per cent fall in lithium-ion battery costs

Studies are underestimating the likely level of electric vehicle sales. A new study has found that the cost of lithium-ion batteries has fallen in cost by 97 per cent since their introduction in 1991; it projects continued price drops over the next three decades....

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  April 12, 2021

Seaspiracy: fact, fiction, or an example of the dangers of science journalism?

Is the Netflix documentary Seaspiracy fact or fiction? More likely, Seaspiracy is an example of how the presentation of complex information to the public leaves you open to charges of inaccuracy....

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  April 06, 2021

We are winning the war against climate change thanks to exponential fall in solar costs

The IPCC's projections on climate change are too pessimistic, suggests a new report, and why? Because of the way solar energy is falling in costs exponentially climate change can be defeated....

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