Dance Power: Harvesting Movement Energy
If you’re seeking to engage the general population in thinking about renewable energy, you may have an uphill battle. However, one company has figured out a way not only to [...]
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Nano-Coated Solar Collectors Revolutionize Heating & Cooling
The Concept: a Finnish company uses an innovative combination of nano-coatings, improved mechanical design, and larger panels to provide unprecedented solar thermal [...]
Gaming the Way to Energy Behavior Change
What would it take for you to consistently change your home energy behavior? Saving money has not proven to be an effective motivation, higher prices have not been welcome [...]
The Grid: A Biography of America’s Electricity Infrastructure (book review)
Some think the biggest obstacle to renewable energy is Big Oil. Others blame conservative climate deniers. The real culprit may be an old, old friend, the electrical [...]
Big Data, Big Gains for Renewable Energy
Renewable energy is on a fast track that may get even faster. The advent of networked sensor systems and the much touted “Internet of Things” (IoT) has brought about the [...]
Speeding Energy Storage to the Grid: Going Slow to Go Fast
Flow batteries seem to be the best solution to fill the short-term energy storage gap at grid scale, but despite a prodigious amount of development, the industry as a whole [...]
Cambridge University: Moving closer to the ‘ultimate’ lithium-air battery
Lithium-air, or lithium-oxygen, batteries have been hailed as the ‘ultimate’ battery due to their theoretical energy density, which is ten times that of the [...]
Qarnot: Free Home Heat from Cloud Computing
Despite the benefits of cloud computing, there is ongoing concern about the amount of energy and cooling resources needed for the surging number of data centers the world [...]
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