Energy

Cacti are a promising new source of biofuels in the Mexican desert (Credit: Getty Images)
Future Planet
How Mexico is drawing power from cacti
By Miguel Trancozo Trevino
Hospitals over Venezuela lost power during a five-day nationwide black out this year (Credit: Getty Images)
Worst Case Scenario
How to survive an apocalyptic power cut
By Richard Gray
The question of what to do with the world's oil tanker fleet will become more pressing as the world tries to wean itself off fossil fuels (Credit: Getty Images)
Future Now
What to do with ageing oil tankers
By Richard Gray
Orkney
Energy
The islands with the electric sea
Eday is where the European Marine Energy Centre tries new tidal turbines in the rough waters (Credit: Alamy)
Energy
The tiny isles turning to hydrogen
By Diego Arguedas Ortiz in Stromness, Orkney Islands
Japan has been researching the potential of flammable ice for decades, but it is only within the last few years that extraction has come within reach (Credit: Getty Images)
Science & Environment
Why Japan wants to start ‘burning ice’
By Martha Henriques
airport
Best of BBC Future
Should we really all fly less?
By Diego Arguedas Ortiz
India's beautiful beaches may also hold the secret to its carbon-free future (Credit: Getty Images)
In Depth
The nuclear fuel in India's beaches
By Edd Gent
Greenhouse domes in Pagosa Springs, Colorado
Future Now
The farms that look like Moon bases
By Daliah Singer
Bitumen floats on Michigan’s Kalamazoo River after the 2010 spill; this visible part then evaporated, leaving most of the oil to sink below the surface (Credit: Alamy)
Energy
Canada’s deliberate oil spill
By Lesley Evans Ogden
Data centres
Untold World
The city where the internet warms homes
By Erin Biba
Harnessing power from fusion – a process shown in this rendering of the reactor at Iter – has remained frustratingly out of reach (Credit: David Parker/Science Photo Library)
Britain
The TV star building a fusion reactor
By Richard Gray
Energy
Grand Challenges
The world’s biggest energy challenges
By Richard Gray
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World-Changing Ideas
How Attenborough would change the world
The lure of oil can even draw people away from towns whose populations were previously quite steady, such as this district of Al Jazirah Al Hamra in the United Arab Emirates.
Technology
The ghost towns created by the oil rush
By Chris Baraniuk
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