Earth and Energy

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Today’s combustion engine rockets are cheap-ish but not that efficient so the race is on…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF When the battery in your implanted medical devices runs out you run to the hospital…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF If you wanted proof that technology always gets smaller then here it is, and in…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Forget thinking linearly, when you think exponentially everything’s possible – including taking photos through walls….

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We think of batteries as having a common fixed shape, but structural batteries can be…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The Earth is bathed in energy, and reversing climate change relies on us being able…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The aviation industry is one of the world’s biggest polluters, so Reaction Engines is developing…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As the global energy grids are connected together it becomes increasingly realistic for countries to…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We throw away far too much waste and most of it goes to landfill, but…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Renewables are the future, but the electricity they generate needs to be stored so it…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The world needs to decarbonise the atmosphere and dramatically reduce carbon emissions, and innovations are…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF If you want to connect remote communities to the electrical grid you can build expensive…