We’re going in the right direction, but at the wrong speed. Once per year, the environmental clocks of practically every country on earth stop to sync at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP): an international summit whose purpose is to define, specify, and assess execution of efforts to protect the climate. Global commons, limited…
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Heat Islands
When we think of the cities of the future, we think of friendly spaces, with people at the heart of their design and activity. However, many urban hubs today are not very inhabitable. Especially during the summer, they are both the victim and the cause of the heat island effect. Despite this, the solutions lie…
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Clean Energies on Water
Renewable energies are energies that come from natural sources and have a faster replacement rate than their consumption rate. In other words, they are virtually inexhaustible. This concept, coined by the United Nations, came into use in the 1970s, a result of the oil crisis that revealed the finite nature of fossil fuel reserves. Fifty years later,…
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Greater Energy Independence Means Freedom
(Estimated reading time: 2,58 minutes) – Audio version of article available. Energy is an essential part of life. It meets human needs all while creating industrial, commercial, and social wealth. However, producing energy from fossil fuels increases climate change and degrades air quality, which deteriorates ecosystems and is harmful to health. Spain’s current energy model…
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Renewables and Energy Dependency
(Estimated reading time: 3,38 minutes) – Audio version of article available. Increased installed capacity for renewable technologies in Spain is essential if we wish to achieve independence from foreign energy sources. This situation is structural and affects us both in terms of international raw fossil material markets and their impact on prices, and in terms…
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How to store energy and how important this is
(Estimated reading time: 4.11 minutes) – Audio version of article available. Improving energy storage is an inevitable challenge on the road to a successful ecological and digital transition. To this end, in addition to investing in innovation and technology, we must take advantage of all possibilities already within our reach, with a host of devices…
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What is this hydrogen thing?
(Estimated reading time: 4.4 minutes) – Audio version of article available. Hydrogen (H2) is not a fuel, but an energy vector. Energy vectors are substances or devices that store energy, such that it can later be released in a controlled fashion. This stored energy can be produced by different power sources; some of them with…
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Benefits of Sustainable Energy
Do you want to learn how sustainable energy improves your life (and the planet’s)? Just like environmental journalist Adela Ucar, Fundación Canal believes that one cannot love what they do not know. Which is why we asked her to help us to discover the advantages and benefits of sustainable energy use in the city. Will…
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