⚡️ 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.
🔋 Old Batteries from Electric Vehicles Get New Life Powering California’s Grid
A startup based in California has saved thousands of old and used vehicle batteries from landfills by turning them into an energy storage facility.
⚡ Scientists convert scrap metal into electricity
Combustion of metal powder makes it possible to store energy from solar and wind power and get electricity from it when we need it most.
🌤 Minnesota Installs New Community Solar Garden
In Makato, Minnesota, a 1.2-megawatt solar array will be built this year. People living in apartments, mobile home park occupants as well as individuals with low credit scores can subscribe and own a share of the solar array.
🌊 New sustainable hydropower can meet the world's energy needs
Many countries in Africa and Asia can get all the electricity they need by expanding hydropower and they can do it in ways that don't harm the environment.
🌾 Solar panels harness the full light spectrum to improve crop yields
A new study from the University of California suggests that using the full light spectrum can benefit both solar energy production and crop yield.
🔋 They will create an open energy-sharing standard, EP
The internet runs on the world's largest standard, the Internet Protocol. Now a group is creating an open standard for energy sharing, the Energy Protocol, EP.
💡 The Energy Society Manifesto
At this time in history, an abundance of clean energy for a low fixed cost is possible.
🌤 A solar project that is a Win-Win-Win-Win
A 10 megawatt community solar landfill project is being developed in New Jersey. The solar farm consists of two 5 MW systems and they can produce enough electricity for about 2000 homes.
🌊 Building the world's largest facility for wave power
A wave power plant in Ordu in Turkey is to become the largest land-based plant in the world.