⚡️ 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.
☀️ California Begins Covering Canals with Solar Panels to Fight Drought
In California, a pilot project is being launched to cover the irrigation canals in solar panels in order to fight drought.
🍁 Floating leaf creates fuel from sunlight
Researchers from the University of Cambridge have designed lightweight and flexible devices that can use solar technology to convert light into fuel. Now, there is a possibility for cargo ships to one day be powered by “artificial leaves” floating out at sea.
💨 The world's largest wind farm is complete
A new wind farm can generate enough energy to supply an entire city with electricity.
🔌 Jonas Birgersson: "All the electricity you need for a low, fixed fee"
Jonas Birgersson became an internet pioneer by promising and delivering all the internet you need for $20 a month. Now he believes that the same thing can be done with electricity. "For a low, fixed price, you have all the electricity you need."
💨 This way we can get more energy out of existing wind power
By simply controlling how the wind turbines move to capture the wind in a new way, it is possible to increase production from wind power without having to invest in new equipment.
⚡️ Huge water battery to store excess energy
Switzerland has built a huge water battery to store surplus energy. The battery can store as much electricity as 400 000 electric car batteries.
🥦 Huge benefits from growing broccoli shaded by solar panels
Solar panels take up a lot of space and farmers usually want to grow crops on the surface where solar panels would work best. Now, scientists have found that a certain vegetable thrives in the shade from the panels. This vegetable is broccoli.
🔋 Can nuclear waste become batteries that last for thousands of years?
NDB claims to have the solution for how we should manage nuclear waste and have constant access to electricity during the electrification of the world - diamond batteries made from nuclear waste.
🔋 Mathematical model can give us better batteries
Researchers have found a method to see how different materials can affect lithium metal batteries without having to do any physical experiments.