Renewable Energy News

The International Renewable Energy Agency has revealed that increasing renewables to 36 percent of the global energy mix by 2030 would generate about half the emissions reductions needed to prevent global warming rising above 2 degrees celsius.

Following the UN Climate Change Summit in Paris last year, ambitious targets were set by the international community in efforts to combat climate change on a global scale.

A UK scientist has developed an innovative idea for a helium airship powered with solar, that could be the key to reducing air-freight emissions.

If the world is planning on meeting the climate change goals decided at the Paris Climate Conference last year, there are going to need to be drastic changes- the energy system will need to be at least close to/at zero emissions in the next 50 years.

Melbourne’s Hero Building is proving true to its name, having installed the largest solar system to be retrofitted to a Melbourne apartment block, while 101 Collins Street has invested in the highest commercial solar panel system in the country.

The owners of 149 apartments in the Hero Building installed a 50 kW solar panel system to power the lighting and ventilation systems in the common areas of the 60-year old building.

An element that is less radioactive and produces less nuclear waste than uranium is inching closer towards becoming an alternative fuel for nuclear energy. Carlo Rubbia, one of the world’s top nuclear experts, said that one of the main reasons why the United States cut research on thorium in the 1970s is part of what makes it so attractive today — thorium is difficult to turn into a bomb. It is also about three or four times more abundant than uranium and produces roughly 200 times more energy than its cousin.

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