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Green hydrogen, almighty gas of the gaps

This column previously appeared in the October issue of Dutch technology magazine De Ingenieur. Centuries ago, life was straightforward. The will of an invisible but omnipotent supreme being explained everything. If you got a...

Great, Energy Vault actually constructed it’s hilarious gravity battery!

Crazy storage tower Energy Vault picked by World Economic Forum If a successful investor throws $ 110 million of its assets on an idea, is it a good idea? If the World Economic Forum...

Expensive natural gas doesn’t make green hydrogen cheap

The price of fossil natural gas in Europe has been shooting up in all directions for the past few days, but on average it is mostly upwards. This makes many forms of sustainability acutely...

What to think of that award-winning Dutch Ocean Battery?

At the consumer electronics fair CES2022, the Dutch startup Ocean Grazer won an innovation award this January. Ocean Grazer is developing the Ocean Battery, an offshore energy storage system for wind farms. Since winning...

Planet of the Humans, a weak documentary on sustainable energy

American filmmaker Michael Moore published the documentary Planet of the Humans on 21 April 2020 (Earth Day). I publish a lot on energy transition and a number of people was curious about my opinion...

Rectification: Trump’s SolarWall certainly no ‘Dutch idea’

Donald Trump has announced that the controversial wall on the southern border will be a ‘SolarWall’. The wall will generate income via photo-voltaic solar panels, lessening the burden for Mexico to pay for construction. Rectification,...