⚡️ 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.
🔌 "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.
♻️ 3D printed living material that can grow "on-site"
Researchers have created a new 3D-printed, living material of algae.
💦 New nanoscale material can split water to make fuel
Hydrogen is somewhat the underdog in the vehicle fuel debate, but now scientists have made a breakthrough when it comes to extracting technology.
🛸 "Shields up" - US Air force is developing "energy shields"
Tiny and powerful lasers can automatically shoot down all incoming missiles and thus create a kind of shield around aircraft, ships, and other vehicles. The USAF wants to make a reality of the Star Trek tech.
🌴 Africa's first biomass power plant is in the pipeline
Côte d’Ivoire is set to get Africa’s first biomass-fired electricity generation plant with a capacity to produce 46MW.