The most recent information about strategies for transforming humanity's energy utilisation.

On 26 August 2026, a glacier collapse in Nepal's Langtang region dammed a mountain river with ice and rock. When the temporary dam failed, the surge travelled nearly 100 kilometres downstream, destroying homes, roads, a border highway, and several hydropower stations along the way.

What the Integrity Era of Nature Finance Means for Circular Energy Infrastructure Published as part of iQ-LOOP's Insights series. This week's Nature Premium newsletter — Elena Doms and Chris Winter's weekly read on natural capital markets — carried a headline worth sitting with: investors managing over €50 trillion in assets, through the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change, have assessed UK nature markets and delivered a verdict. The foundations are there. The cap

Storing Surplus Renewable Energy in Aluminium — and Releasing It On Demand Published as part of iQ-LOOP's Insights series. On a windy day in Scotland, the grid can produce more clean electricity than the country knows what to do with — and pays wind farms to switch off rather than take it. Last year, more than 13% of Britain's potential wind generation was curtailed this way, costing billpayers over £1 billion, according to NESO, Britain's system operator. Its own forecasts p

Published as part of iQ-LOOP's Insights series. Every AI keynote this year has featured the same slide: soaring inference volumes, falling cost-per-token, a roadmap toward some greener, more efficient future. What none of them mention is where the electricity behind those tokens is actually coming from. Increasingly, in the United States, the answer is coal. The number nobody expected to go back up US coal-fired electricity generation rose 13% in 2025, according to the Energy

What physics tells us that mainstream economics forgot Published as part of iQ-LOOP's Insights series. Is it feasible for an economy to indefinitely expand on finite resources on our planet? It appears to be the type of inquiry a freshman might have, which a professor could dismiss. A recent dialogue between Nivi Jaswal-Wirtjes [1], and economist Professor Steve Keen [2] places that inquiry at the forefront, with ramifications for individuals engaged in energy, industry, or i

One of the curious things about Britain is that we can spend weeks complaining about the rain... Published as part of iQ-LOOP's Insights series. ...and then, a few months later, find ourselves under a hosepipe ban. It seems ridiculous. After all, the rain didn't disappear. We all remember it rather well. The problem wasn't that Britain ran out of water. The problem was that the water wasn't necessarily where it was needed, when it was needed, or in a form that could easily be

2026 A new peer-reviewed paper published in Advanced Energy Materials — authored by researchers at the University of Perugia, AIT Austria, and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology's Helmholtz Institute Ulm — provides independent scientific validation of the core mechanism behind iQ-LOOP's platform: using aluminium as a circular carrier to store off-peak renewable electricity and release heat and hydrogen on demand. The paper highlights aluminium's exceptional volumetric ener

Every great leap in civilisation has begun with a breakthrough in how we store and move energy. Published as part of iQ-LOOP's Insights series. Wood tied settlement to the forest at its doorstep. Coal, moved by rail and by sea, let industry relocate to wherever capital and labour gathered, breaking the old link between power and place. Oil, carried by pipeline and tanker, built the first genuinely global energy market — and much of the last century's geopolitics along with it

For most of human history, energy didn't travel down a wire — it travelled as cargo. Coal, wood, and charcoal were carried to wherever heat or power was needed, then released on arrival. The electrical grid changed that: energy now moves instantly, but only where the wires reach, and only when the wires can carry the load. iQ-LOOP revives the older idea, with a circular, zero-carbon twist. iQ-LOOP's platform is made up of three components: (1) CREATE, (2) FuelPods and (3) RE

Published as part of iQ-LOOP's Insights series. A LinkedIn post by Prof. Steve Keen circulated widely this week, and it is worth engaging with directly because it identifies a constraint that much of the AI infrastructure conversation still skips past. Every discussion about the limits of the AI buildout eventually arrives at electricity: • Not enough gigawatts. • Not enough turbines. • Not enough grid capacity. • Not enough time. That conceptualisation