But electrification isn't all or nothing. Batteries would need to begin by operating alongside liquid fuels. In recent research, I lay out two potential ways to do this: using onboard battery packs ...

An electric barge will soon quietly carry cargo along inland waterways in The Netherlands, powered by batteries housed in a shipping container. Dutch company Wärtsilä designed the barge, and is ...

The shipping industry has a predisposition to assuming that molecules are required for energy. Some of that is simply that the history of shipping for the past two hundreds years has required them.

China leads the world in terms of renewable energy resources like solar power. And not just by a small margin either, making over twice as much solar power as the next highest country, the USA. Where ...

Shipping moves 90% of global trade and produces nearly 3% of global emissions. The sector has proved challenging to clean up, as cargo ships can travel for weeks between ports and typically rely on ...

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