JCB's hydrogen-combustion streamliner has set a 406.320mph land speed record at Bonneville, making it the fastest hydrogen-powered and zero-emission car ever — and giving hydrogen internal combustion the demonstration the industry has been waiting for.
At this year’s World Hydrogen Summit, the Hydrogen Council opened proceedings with a CEO-led declaration titled “Hydrogen for a Resilient World.” The underlying argument was blunt: the years-long argument over green versus blue hydrogen has become a distraction. What matters now is whether governments treat hydrogen as a serious pillar of energy resilience—creating demand, funding […]
Glendinning has taken the next step in its renewable energy journey with the installation of a floating solar array — the first of its kind to be self-designed and fabricated within the UK quarrying sector. Like many in the industry, Glendinning first explored self-generation through roof-mounted solar. Between 2021 and 2024, the company installed more […]
JCB’s return to the Bonneville Salt Flats with a hydrogen-powered streamliner is being framed as a motorsport story, but the more interesting read for the energy sector is what sits behind it: a £100 million bet that hydrogen combustion can scale into mainstream heavy industry, and a clear signal about where engineering talent and supply […]
For decades, the aluminium recycling industry has operated with an uncomfortable truth at its core: a significant proportion of what is collected never actually gets recycled. Globally, estimates suggest only 10 to 15 per cent of aluminium is genuinely reclaimed. Even within the EU, where collection rates approach 60 per cent, the smelting process introduces […]
Europe’s push for green hydrogen is gathering pace, but a new study from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden has identified a constraint that many policymakers have overlooked: local water supply. Green hydrogen is produced through electrolysis — splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen using renewable electricity — and while the process is climate-friendly, large-scale […]
A major new partnership between four of the UK’s biggest energy companies could see the Humber become the home of Britain’s first integrated hydrogen transport and storage network — and potentially reshape the region’s industrial future for decades to come. What’s happening? National Gas, Centrica, Equinor, and SSE Thermal have come together under the banner […]
In 2015, the United Nations launched a universal call to action: the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This framework consists of 17 aspirational goals designed to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure peace and prosperity for all by 2030. Governments and industries worldwide are adopting these goals, but achieving them requires scientific innovation. Chemistry—the central […]
For decades, aluminium strength was measured in smelters and megawatts. Primary production sat at the centre of industrial growth, with energy availability dictating who could scale and who could not. That equation is now changing. In both China and the United States — the world’s two largest aluminium markets — attention is steadily shifting away […]
As the global energy system moves toward decarbonisation, attention is increasingly shifting beyond tailpipe emissions to the full environmental impact of clean fuels across their entire lifecycle. Technologies such as green hydrogen, green ammonia and synthetic electrofuels are central to this transition — but their true sustainability depends on how they are produced, monitored and […]