⚡️ Energy
Energy production and consumption is becoming cleaner, cheaper and decentralized. With connected devices you as a consumer can take control of your energy consumption. Here you will also find content about batteries, smart grids, nuclear and other innovation in the energy field.
🧊 A loophole in the greenhouse effect paves way for a cool invention
UCLA scientists are testing a thin film designed with nanotechnologies, which can reflect sunlight and reject heat into space. This can be used to employ radiative sky cooling with air conditioning and refrigeration systems.
🏭 76% of all planned coal-fired power plants stopped since 2015
Since the Paris Agreement in 2015, 76 percent of all planned coal-fired power plants have been stopped, a recent report reveals.
💡 Optimist's Edge: This is what you need to know about the nuclear power of the future
The fourth generation nuclear power is not that far away and has greater benefits than you think. In this article, two experts reveal everything you need to know about the energy production of the future.
🔋 Here is the World’s first 3D-printed solid-state battery
Sakuu's 3D batteries breakthrough design is capable of saving up to 50% of material costs while sustaining better performance than conventional solutions.
🔌 "Charging rooms" could be the end of wires
Electronics are great, but the heaps of tangled wires they cause are not. Researchers might have found a solution to the problem.
☀️ Solar panels are built where they're needed the most
This startup builds solar panels where they are most needed in order to even out the distribution of clean energy.
🌊 New tidal energy design harvest double the energy
Researchers have designed a new type of generator that can extract twice as much wave energy.
🇲🇿 Mozambique gets first solar energy storage facility
Mozambique builds a US$32 million solar system that comprises solar panels and utility-scale battery energy storage. The first of its kind in the country.
🔋 Breakthrough: Here is the world's first sodium EV battery
Sodium is a whopping 1,000 times more abundant than lithium and both cheaper and easier to extract. Now, the biggest battery maker for EVs has revealed a sodium-ion battery that could shake the industry.