🔌 The Air-gen - Making power out of nothing at all
Electrical engineer Jun Yao and microbiologist Derek Loveley, working at the University of Massachusetts Amherst [https://www.umass.edu/], have described, in a recent paper in Nature [https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2010-9.epdf], a bioelectrical device capable of producing clean electricity from nothing more than slightly moist air. The
🌙 A solar panel that can operate at night
A new paper describes a PV solar panel system that can still generate electricity long after the sun has gone down.
⚡ What goes up - using gravity to store energy
With solar and wind energy booming, there’s still one big problem, and that’s storage. How can we assure a reliable power supply when the sun isn’t shining, or the wind isn’t blowing?