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Mark Venables

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Mark Venables is the Power editor.

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  • Artfully distressed image of cooling towers

    Cleaner coal: how small do you like your reactors?

    Coal will remain a staple fuel for electricity generation despite the carbon dioxide it emits with its effect of the environment. But research at Imperial College London into gasification and high-pressure reactors, which began with work on the fluidised bed reactor, is helping to increase efficiency.

Latest articles

  • The global state of carbon capture and storage

    Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) will help us to carry on using fossil fuels to generate electricity. Boosted by its inclusion in the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), projects such as Vatenfall’s Schwarze Pumpe are now in action but its use in abating climate change within the Kyoto protocol  is unclear.

  • 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.

  • Transmitted from pigs

    ...that’s clean energy and not mutated viruses, by the way. E&T reports.

  • 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.

Features

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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