⚡️ 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.
⚡️🌊 Tidal energy takes Scotland towards zero emissions
Scotland is at the forefront of fighting climate change. On their way towards net-zero, electric cars on the island of Yell can now be powered by tidal energy.
🌻5 examples of how renewable energy is changing the game
Worl Economic Forum lists five examples of renewable energy success stories, to emphasize the unstoppable trend.
⛽ New method makes it 100 times more efficient to produce hydrogen
A new catalyst lowers the energy requirements for producing hydrogen so much that sunlight in the future can replace natural gas as an energy source in processes.
⚡️Superconductors - The Holy Grail in energy science
If a single material became superconducting and conducted electric current without resistance at room temperature, we could solve the world's energy problems. Recently, several breakthroughs have been made and the dream of frictionless electricity is now closer than ever.
🛢 Drastic reduction in oil spills
Amoco Cadiz, Exxon Valdez, and Deepwater Horizon. Many people remember the great oil disasters, but fewer know that both the number and amount of oil spills have decreased sharply in the world.
🌟 Electric cars for the people!
Electric cars are often described as "expensive". That perception is changing. A French-Romanian electric car contributes to that.
🦑 Cyprus, Greece, and Israel run a common power cable under the depths of the sea
A major EU project supports an electricity connection between the three countries, letting Cyprus in from its energy isolation
🦅 Smart camera system saves endangered birds from wind turbines deaths
A camera system saves endangered birds by stopping the wind turbines before the birds hit them - leading to an 82% drop in fatalities.
🔋 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.