Collaborate Disseminate
Anyone who has spent any amount of time in or near people who are really interested in energy policies will have heard proclamations such as that ‘baseload is dead’ and …read more Continue reading The Death of Baseload and Similar Grid Tropes
As humans we often think we have a pretty good handle on the basics of the way the world works, from an intuition about gravity good enough to let us …read more Continue reading Static Electricity Remembers
In the early years of electrification, when electricity was beginning to shape the modern world, this new technology was being put to use in many more places than turning motors …read more Continue reading A 100-Year-Old Electronic Musical Instrument Brought Back to Life
Imagine cooling your building with the same principle that kept Victorian-era icehouses stocked with lake-frozen blocks, but in modern form. That’s the idea behind ice batteries, a clever energy storage …read more Continue reading The Coolest Batteries You’ve Never Heard Of
If you’ve ever had a packing peanut stick to your clothes as you unbox your Amazon delivery, then you know that Styrofoam is pretty good at generating static electricity. A new invention turns that quality into a workable energy-saving solution.Continu… Continue reading Static from Styrofoam and wind harvested for electricity
Incredibly, for the first time, scientists have unraveled the mechanisms at play when rubbing a surface creates an electrical current, something that was first recorded in 600 BCE yet not fully understood until now. And while cats are not the main culp… Continue reading The shocking science behind petting cats – or how static electricity works
When you picture a sci-fi energy source, glowing green crystals are right up there. Scientists in China have now demonstrated just that, in the form of a “micronuclear battery” that can provide continuous low levels of power for decades.Continue Readin… Continue reading Glowing crystal-powered nuclear battery boasts 8,000x efficiency boost
The WindFloat Atlantic project – the world’s first semi-submersible floating offshore wind farm, located off the coast of Portugal with only three turbines – has exceeded expectations over the last four years of operation, generating a total of 320 GWh… Continue reading Better than expected: World’s first semi-submersible floating wind farm
Startup Deep Fission has come up with a new way to deal with the economic and safety problems of nuclear power that is, to say the least, novel. The idea is to build a reactor that’s under 30 inches (76 cm) wide and stick it down a mile-deep (1.6-km) d… Continue reading Nuclear reactors a mile underground promise safe, cheap power
Two 650-foot-tall (200-m) towers have risen in China’s Gansu Province. Combined with an array of 30,000 mirrors arranged in concentric circles, the new facility is expected to generate over 1.8 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity every year.Continue … Continue reading World’s first dual-tower solar thermal plant boosts efficiency by 24%