⚡️ 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.
🔌 The Air-gen - Making power out of nothing at all
Electrical engineer Jun Yao and microbiologist Derek Loveley, working at the University of Massachusetts Amherst [https://www.umass.edu/], have described, in a recent paper in Nature [https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2010-9.epdf], a bioelectrical device capable of producing clean electricity from nothing more than slightly moist air. The
💧 💡 Powering 100 small LED lights from a single drop of water
This groundbreaking achievement can help to advance scientific research into water energy generation and tackle the energy crisis.
🌙 A solar panel that can operate at night
A new paper describes a PV solar panel system that can still generate electricity long after the sun has gone down.
⚡ What goes up - using gravity to store energy
With solar and wind energy booming, there’s still one big problem, and that’s storage. How can we assure a reliable power supply when the sun isn’t shining, or the wind isn’t blowing?
🐢 Animals and plants thrive underneath solar panels
According to new research, both animals and crops in arid climates benefit from the shade produced by solar panels.
☀️ Solar Foods makes protein from air and electricity
Food production without agriculture. Finnish Solar Foods plans to achieve this with its unique innovation.
⚡ Work has begun on building the world's largest offshore wind farm
Upon completion, the massive project will generate enough power to supply 4.5 million homes annually. That's the equivalent of about 5% of the United Kingdom's total estimated energy generation.
☀️ Alberta, Canada is launching one of the world's largest solar farms
The project will utilize about 2.5 mm PV modules across 4,700 acres. It is expected to power as many as 110,000 homes and offset 472 tons of greenhouse gas emissions annually.
🏭 Goldman Sachs will no longer fund new coal projects
Goldman Sachs announces that it will no longer fund new coal projects. They will also not fund any extraction projects in the Arctic.