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Mark Venables

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Mark Venables is the Power editor.

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  • A leading light

    Fuel cells offer a great deal of promise in a variety of applications. E&T visits Finland where a key demonstration project hopes to prove this ‘disruptive’ technology is on the verge of commercial reality.

  • Charge of the electric car

    The ability of the UK power grid to support the growth of electric cars has been called into question, but as E&T discovers there is more than enough electricity to go around.

  • On the grid for green

    When you picture green cars, the last thing on your mind would be the typical 200mph racing car. But, as E&T discovers, several new racing series are shattering that conception.

  • Solar grid parity

    Will it ever be possible for solar power to match the costs of our current electricity generation? E&T gauges the likelihood.

  • Smart grid thinking

    The European electricity grid is past its sell-by-date and creaking at the seams as it attempts to cope with a distributed generation scenario that it was not originally designed for. E&T takes a look at the moves to create a European Super Grid.

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Power games

Before construction work could begin on the London Olympic Park the electrical infrastructure needed to be put in place, as E&T discovers.

[You write it!] The future of fusion: are diamonds forever?

Increasingly, we live in a time that is obsessively motivated towards alternative energies, as global warming and its effects begin to dominate the world’s collective consciousness.

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