⚡️ 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.
🔋 Hydrogen-powered battery provides environmentally-friendly storage of energy from solar cells
A refrigerator-sized device that can both create hydrogen through electrolysis and store it in a fuel cell can act as a battery for solar energy.
🕊 This is how wind and solar energy make the world more peaceful
Our move to renewable energy will make the world more peaceful. As countries become self-sufficient in energy, many incentives for conflict will diminish.
🐠⬛️ Reef Cubes - A way to re-boost marine biodiversity and protect offshore wind farms
ARC Marine has invented Reef Cubes - an artificial coral reef that protects and strengthens marine biodiversity while protecting offshore wind farms.
🛢 Shell has reached “peak oil” and now oil production will decrease every year
The oil companies see the beginning of the end for fossil fuels and instead invest in renewable energy.
🇰🇷 South Korea is investing $43 billion in building the world's largest wind farm
Major investments in renewable energy will give South Korea the opportunity to decommission all power plants that run on fossil fuels and also close several nuclear reactors.
🏭 Four Asian countries shut down 80 percent of their planned coal-fired power plants
Sustainable energy is now cheaper than coal power in many countries and this makes new coal power plants a lousy investment.
⚓️ New way of powering aquatic research robots
An ex-NASA researcher has unriddled how the thermal energy trapped in the ocean can generate unlimited clean power for aquatic robots.
⚡️ Great Britain windfarms break the record for clean power generation
On Friday, December 18th, 40% of Great Britain’s electricity was generated in wind farms. All thanks to the stormy winter weather.
☀ New solar cells will be 20 percent more efficient than today's panels
Solar panels built with a combination of silicon and the material perovskite are the most efficient panels to date.