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Electric cars: Juiced up and ready to go

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Electric cars: Juiced up and ready to go

The compact, powerful batteries needed to create viable electric cars are tantalisingly close, but which of the competing options will become the next power player?

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Interview: Fusion in a cold climate

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Interview: Fusion in a cold climate

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Rival designs race to harness ocean energy

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Rival designs race to harness ocean energy

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Money flows into green transport despite recession

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Ice on fire: The next fossil fuel

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Ice on fire: The next fossil fuel

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Methane controls before risky geoengineering, please

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Methane controls before risky geoengineering, please

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Chicken feathers could make cheap hydrogen store

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Chicken feathers could make cheap hydrogen store

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Biofuels could clean up Chernobyl 'badlands'

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Biofuels could clean up Chernobyl 'badlands'

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Virtual power plants could tame coming grid chaos

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Virtual power plants could tame coming grid chaos

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Train can be worse for climate than plane

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Train can be worse for climate than plane

Comparing the "full life-cycle" emissions of different forms of transport reveals that assumptions about which is worst are often wrong

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Poor countries could be paid to go nuclear

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Methanol challenges hydrogen to be fuel of the future

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Hot rock power scheme could brew trouble in Eden

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Rules of high seas could lead to Arctic 'pole of peace'

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