Green Energy

With a growing number of extreme weather events happening around the world in 2021, climate change is high on the public agenda. Climate scientists have stated that, for example, the extreme temperatures seen across the US and Canada in June 2021 would be "virtually impossible" without global warming. One way in which climate change can be combatted is the development and implementation of novel technologies for generating the ever-increasing amount of energy needed by the world's population in a more climate-friendly way.

The Holy Grail of green energy is widely regarded as nuclear fusion because it has the potential to generate huge amounts of energy with little to no environmental impact. It was reported this August that the Nuclear Ignition Facility in the US is on the verge of 'ignition'. This is a key milestone on the road to generating useable energy by nuclear fusion, where the energy released by fusion of the fuel exceeds the energy supplied to