If you value freedom, engineering and sustainability, you probably want to have a ‘home battery’ that stores and provides you with energy independent from the grid. But these are not as easily bought as your average turkey sandwich. Which battery do you need for your family? How do you install it? How much does it cost? This liveblog is intended to provide you with (some) of the answers.

Why taking half a year off to “do nothing” is both terrifying and marvellous at the same time.

What if there is a place where you can make money by sharing ideas?

Costs of renewables continue to fall incrementally and are at a record low of around €40 per MWh. Meanwhile, conventional nuclear - despite over half a century of industrial experience - continues to see costs rising and is up to three times more expensive at €150 per MWh. why is that?

The global energy firm Wartsila modeled the least-cost renewables mix for all regions of the world, based on projected technology costs for 2030. The analysis shows that all regions require overbuilding of renewable capacity of up to four times. Contrary to popular belief, no seasonal storage is required, “only” four to ten days of multi-day storage capacity.

The conventional one gigawatt nuclear power plant takes almost 15 years to build if you are not from a major nuclear state*. The fastest builders (historically) are the Japanese, for which it takes only 5 years. Asian states - or contractors - are generally faster builders compared to the West and Russia. Learn more about the differences and reasons why in this blog.

Wow. At the United Nations Biodiversity Conference in Kunming, President Xi announced a 400 gigawatts solar and wind project. This one project would be more than the entire wind and solar capacity installed in the United States.

The world runs on oil, whether we like it or not. How then, do we transition from fossil-based oil towards a sustainable future? This blog reveals why we are addicted, and provides the two forms of methadone needed to transform the transportation, buildings and industry sector.

Hydrogen has a key role to play in our sustainable future. Except for cars. It is time we acknowledge the future of land-based transport is battery-electric, not hydrogen-powered. This blog explores the beauty of hydrogen and why we should not put it into our cars - of any size.

Long-term thinking is largely buried in the past along with the Middle Ages, but it can be revived. This article describes how cathedral thinking, a mindset from the dark ages, can help mankind with difficult issues such as climate change.

Humankind stands at a crossroads to shape tomorrow's world. Increasing population and affluence subsequently increases overall demand, be it in the form of food, water or energy. This article explores the two different paths to escape a humanitarian crisis as described in the book “The Wizard and the Prophet”, so that you can recognize them and place the paths in today's context and political decisions.

Flind is a dashboard that gives you insights on your vessel’s energy consumption and emissions. For free.

Reducing carbon emissions in the shipping sector can be hard and expensive. Carbon insetting is a way to compensate for emissions that you are unable to mitigate within your normal operations - or are too costly to mitigate - but can be mitigated at other places in your fleet or the sector. Carbon insetting is simple, scalable and perhaps most importantly: almost all vessels can do it without the need for retrofitting or upfront investment costs.

The US wants the global shipping industry to reduce its CO2 emissions to zero by 2050. That target is considerably more ambitious than that of the IMO, which is to reduce CO2 emissions by at least half by 2050.

Over 20% of all Dutch emissions are coming from the Port of Rotterdam, of which the production of grey hydrogen from fossil feedstock is one of the main culprits. This article explores what is needed to build a green hydrogen refinery. It provides an overview of the existing fossil infrastructure and fuel consumption, which technologies are required to transform, how much it would cost and who are actually working on it.

Saudi Arabia is building a $5 billion plant called Helios to make green fuel for export and decrease the country’s dependence on petrodollars. All of the zero-carbon fuel it produces will be shipped to international buyers in the form of ammonia. The 4 gigawatt plant should be fully operational by 2025 and produce 650 tons of hydrogen a day by electrolysis – enough for conversion to 1.2 million tons per year of green ammonia.

A curious coincidence In Rotterdam. Two vessels - the ‘MS Antonie’ and ‘the Maas’ claim to become ‘the first hydrogen inland vessel’ in Rotterdam. We have translated their claims from two Dutch news outlets and made a comparison which might help you on your hydrogen journey. The race is on for the first hydrogen-powered inland vessel in Rotterdam!

This thesis by J.M. Rozendaal at van Oord focuses on the technical, environmental and economic impact of a methanol hybrid power plant design for new-build offshore working vessels. Its conclusion is that a methanol solution has a CO2 reduction potential up to 99% and a CO2 price of 78 euro per ton CO2 reduction.

An interview with Daniel Yergin, author of 'the Prize'. In this interview he claims that ‘the oil age will not be over for a long time’. Three weeks after this interview, Shell and BP announced they have reached peak oil.

Northvolt has partnered with Hydro to establish a first-of-its-kind battery recycling facility. The recycling plant will come online in 2021 in Fredrikstad, outside of Oslo. At commissioning, the Hydro Volt plant will have initial capacity to process more than 8,000 tonnes of batteries per year – roughly the equivalent of 23,000 moderately sized EV batteries. Northvolt is aiming for 50% recycled material in new cells by 2030.