⚡️ 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.
🔋 New electric car battery reduces charging time from hours to minutes
A new anode in a lithium-ion battery could drastically reduce the time it takes to charge the battery.
🌊 Tides offer renewable energy
The Morlais tidal energy project aims to create energy from one of the most untapped and overlooked methods to create renewable energy.
☀ UK initiative aims to make space-based solar a reality by 2035
Fifty organizations are teaming up to provide cost-effective and reliable renewable energy that takes up little space.
🌩 Non-profit aims to harness the power of weather events
This non-profit wants to harness the power of weather events, both on land and at sea. They want to design a system that warns people about upcoming weather events, like thunder storms and other environmental hazards, and at the same time turn the power into usable energy.
🚢 Buoys can charge ships at sea
Stillstorm is developing buoys that will be capable of charging ships at sea using offshore wind energy.
👊 The Renaissance man of nuclear power
John Ahlberg, a father of three from Gothenburg, wants to make fossil-free energy in the form of small modular reactors a reality in Sweden. And things are moving forward quickly. The first reactor could be in place by 2030.
♻ 14 percent of all U.S jobs 2030 will be "green"
Green investment will account for much of the growth in the U.S labor market during the next few years.
☀ Wind and solar power break records
We now get more of our electricity in the world from sun and wind than ever before and we have a good chance of expanding enough renewable electricity to meet the 1.5-degree target.
🛢Innovative approach cuts hydrogen costs by a quarter
More efficient electrolysis can reduce the cost of hydrogen by a quarter and make gas an interesting alternative fuel.