"For decades, the most common developers have been bisphenol A (BPA) and, more recently, bisphenol S (BPS). Both can affect living organisms by disrupting hormone signaling, and both are detected in the environment and in people who handle receipts frequently." actu.epfl.ch/news/safer-r...

"The end customer plans to use SYPOX's technology to produce around 150 tons of synthesis gas per day from 2026 onwards – using renewable electricity and with up to 40 percent lower emissions." www.tum.de/en/news-and-...

"The price surge means silver now makes up about 26 per cent of the cost of making a solar module, compared with just 3 per cent three years ago, according to Jenny Chase, lead solar analyst at BloombergNEF." @solarchase.bsky.social Just what these players need. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Quadruple whammy: High exposure, vulnerability, La Niña and human-induced climate change turned very heavy rainfall into a disastrous deluge around the Limpopo, Umbeluzi, Maputo, Incomati, Save and Buzi rivers. - new @wwattribution.bsky.social study www.worldweatherattribution.org/la-nina-clim...

"US startup Unigrid has begun commercial-scale international shipments of its proprietary NCO sodium-ion cells, which the company says makes it the first battery firm outside China to export sodium-ion technology at scale." www.ess-news.com/2026/01/16/s...

"The leading American composer has withdrawn his 15th symphony from the Trump-controlled arts centre." slippedisc.com/2026/01/phil... www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2vR...

"To minimize the energy use in Sacramento’s extremely hot weather, Van der Ryn relied on passive solar principles. The four-story building ... provides significant thermal mass, absorbing heat during the day and releasing it at night." metropolismag.com/projects/gre...

"Due to its broad availability and naturally occurring CO2 removal capacities, quicklime presents a scalable solution that can boost the deployment of a range of CDR technologies, particularly ocean liming and certain types of direct air capture (DAC)." carbonherald.com/frontier-buy...

Maybe it is a good time to re-listen to the speech of the former republican governor of California after the Capitol riot in 2021 www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAWv...

Between 2007 and 2024, power-sector projects accounted for 45% of China’s investments in Latin America’s largest economy, totaling $35 billion. So now that Brazil needs batteries for the grid, guess who is set to benefit? 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Jet fuel made from light, not heat. cleantechnica.com/2026/01/21/a... #saf #aviation #travel #aircraft #fuel #sustainableaviationfuel #energy #biofuel #biogas #wastegas #innovation #startups #airlines #flight #flying #carbonneutral #aviationfuel #energytransition #sustainable #sustainability

Non-permanent carbon removals #CDR, like afforestation, cannot compensate for emissions as permanent ones can. This should be reflected in #CarbonPricing. PIK study in Environmental and Resource Economics provides guidance, calculates the price difference. 👇 www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...

"The compound will now be tested in pilot plants at a near-industrial scale, rather than in grams. A solid version of the liquid compound must be made for this purpose." www.helsinki.fi/en/news/inno...

"The Sardinia facility took less than two years to construct and the expandable dome took less than half a day to inflate, according to the article." www.utilitydive.com/news/google-...

"The dynamic approach is important as it optimizes operations and ensures less need for costly storage solutions of green hydrogen or renewable power." www.topsoe.com/press-releas...

"Based off of Claude Debussy's 'Reverie', originally arranged by Larry Clinton, and then later arranged by Liston, this performance is from a 1960 Switzerland performance of Quincy Jones's Big Band, and features Liston as well as her arrangement" www.youtube.com/watch?v=caKI...

📮 Everyone talks about lithium. Yet graphite, without which lithium-ion batteries simply wouldn’t work, is quietly becoming a major bottleneck. In my latest article, I expose why graphite represents a critical risk for the energy transition and what it all means.👇🏻 #battchat #batteries #greensky💡🧪

"Most importantly, the SAF that our e-kerosene pathway produces can compete on price with jet fuel made from oil, making Fischer-Tropsch obsolete." prometheusfuels.com/news/prometh... (I want you to comment on this @jmelville.science) @natrevcleantech.nature.com @christianonre.bsky.social

🚨Our film is up We spent months making this👇 About how Britain shut down many of the factories we need to feed us and defend us. Will have more to say on it in due course but in the meantime - pls watch, share and let me know what you think youtu.be/PQ3hT8tqZgo?...

"Varaha, an Indian startup developing carbon dioxide removal (CDR) projects with smallholder farmers in Asia, has signed an offtake deal with Microsoft for biochar carbon removal in India spanning 100,000+ tons over three years." agfundernews.com/varaha-signs...

📽️ Been working on this film, on & off, for the best part of a year. It's about the REALITY (not just the theory) of tariffs. It's the tip of the iceberg of the biggest econ story of our day. It'll air on Sky News on Fri 9pm but you can watch the whole thing here NOW👇 youtu.be/woT0FX5Ztas?...

" 'Even if Fleetzero goes away tomorrow, in 20 years every ship being built will have batteries,' Henderson said. 'It’s just economics and physics.' " trk.wsj.com/view/69430fa...

Today on Volts: Swedish tech entrepreneur Jonas Birgersson was once known in his country as "broadband Jesus" for his efforts in spreading decentralized, low-cost broadband access. Now, he wants to bring the same decentralized, peer-to-peer revolution to the electricity grid.

A study by ETH Zurich and PSI finds that #ElectricVehicles could be economically viable in #Africa before 2040 with solar-powered charging infrastructure.

"But making these powerful magnets generates radioactive byproducts that can contaminate water and soil. As the west introduced environmental regulations in the 1980s, US rare earth suppliers 'started exporting their product to China ...' " www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Les Égarés (Sissoko Segal Parisien Peirani) - Izao www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqLo...

Today on Volts: "closed-loop" geothermal energy digs deeper than conventional geothermal & does not require natural hotspots, so it can be done anywhere. I talk with Eavor, a cutting-edge Canadian startup that has just opened its first closed-loop facility in Germany, about the possibilities.

Sodium-ion battery cells already near lithium-ion cost parity, set to get cheaper - www.ess-news.com/2026/01/09/s... @dominikkeiner.bsky.social @aukehoekstra.bsky.social @jeroahola.bsky.social

"After three decades of perfecting how to reclaim and reuse building components, the Swiss Architect and her team are changing the rules of construction in Basel and its surroundings" metropolismag.com/profiles/how...

Balkony, Frankfurt, 26th of December

"For example, it is estimated that the new measures ... would enable the recycling and reuse of hundreds of tons of rare earth materials, as well as around 5-6 million tonnes of steel, 1-2 million tonnes of aluminium, and 0.2-0.3 million tonnes of copper." ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

All signs point to Trump’s second term creating a hotter and less affordable future for Americans. Without new offshore turbines going up, millions of households across the Northeast will soon pay more money for dirtier and less reliable electricity. My latest 👇

"For us, we look for markets where renewable power, green power, is cheap and the U.S., at least for the time being, it certainly isn't one of those. Renewable power in the U.S. has become – well, all power in the U.S. – has become a scarce commodity." www.forbes.com/sites/curren...

Two magnesium start-ups—Magrathea Metals and Tidal Metals—are making plans to start production of the metal in the US. The US Departments of Defense, Interior, and Energy all list magnesium as critical because its alloys are lightweight and strong. cen.acs.org/materials/St... #chemsky 🧪

"CATL said this potentially is the start of a ‘dual-star’ approach, creating a new trend of 'sodium and lithium batteries shining brightly together.'" www.ess-news.com/2025/12/29/c...

If you are looking for a classic movie this weekend, consider satire "Wag the Dog". Because of a sexual misconduct the president calls a spin doctor (R. De Niro) who distracts the public by a virtual war with Albania, created by a Hollywood Producer (D. Hoffman) www.youtube.com/watch?v=steA...

"Andrew Wilson, deputy secretary-general of the International Chamber of Commerce, said introduction of the CBAM could be 'quite disruptive'." www.ft.com/content/9e4a...

#Blackouts will continue to happen, especially given the continued changes in electric grids, writes Qing-Chang Zhong. But Virtual Synchronous Machines might be the key to keeping the lights on as we transition to a renewable future. spectrum.ieee.org/virtual-sync...

"Frontier buyers were NULIFE's first customers as part of a prepurchase in 2024 for which the company has already delivered more than half of the total volume contracted" frontierclimate.com/writing/nulife

I can't get enough of this excellent, brief paper by Oliver Geden & Andy Reisinger. If you care about climate, incl. human & environmental impacts, then you must also care about serious commitments to removals. Take 6 minutes & read this masterpiece. www.swp-berlin.org/en/publicati...

SYNTHONY - Guru Josh Project 'Infinity' (Live from Auckland) www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FsB...

🚗⚡ Europe’s electric vehicle market is closing the year strong despite ongoing uncertainty around the European CO2 standards review. Battery electric vehicles reached a 23% market share of new registrations in Europe. #MarketMonitor

Katharsis by Fjarill* www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2Bu... (* 🇸🇪 butterfly)

To fight climate change and achieve net-zero carbon emission targets, governments are increasingly betting on technologies that remove carbon dioxide from the air. cen.acs.org/environment/... #chemsky 🧪

BLOG: Massachusetts’ strong CDR policies and green building incentives, combined with growing data centers, create an opportunity to pair DAC with data centers to use waste heat, capture CO₂, and store it in the built environment.

"Chinese firms are on track for a 75% jump this year in global shipments of lithium-ion battery cells for energy storage,.. They have exported more than $65 billion worth of storage and electric-vehicle batteries this year, cementing their dominance in a sector vital to backing up wind and solar.."

Mame-Diarra Niang, Glitch 1, 2015 huismarseille.nl/fotografen/m...

Franco Fontana, Landscape 1978 sammlung.kunststiftungdzbank.de/kuenstler/fr...

"The €2 billion project will build an integrated, battery‑quality lithium supply chain based on geothermal brines, helping to reduce Europe’s reliance on imported raw materials and support the decarbonisation of transport and industry" www.eib.org/en/press/all...

"The wooden elements were assembled by six people in 26 weeks using a whopping 750,000 screws says Robert Winkel, founder of Mei architects and co-founder of Nice Developers..." metropolismag.com/projects/saw...