Collaborate Disseminate
The Wärtsilä 31 engine is in the Guinness Book of World Records for being the most efficient 4-stroke marine engine ever made in its class. It also boasts the highest power per cylinder in engines of equivalent bore size. It can be configured in 8 to 1… Continue reading World’s most efficient engine becomes a colossal clean energy generator
Since revealing a concept for an energy generating wall back in 2021, designer Joe Doucet has been working on bringing the idea to life. That time is here with the launch of Airiva, a modular rotary wind turbine wall destined for installation on city b… Continue reading Mesmerizing vertical turbine wall to enter customer trials this year
Water can hold a huge amount of thermal energy, and a new system to tap into this resource is being trialed in Scotland. A startup called SeaWarm uses heat stored in bodies of water for buildings, pulling four times more heat out than electricity used…. Continue reading HotTwist water-based thermal system cuts heating bills by 75%
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), the designer of the world’s tallest building, Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, has joined forces with Energy Vault Holdings to investigate the possibility of creating something even taller: huge 1-km [3,280-ft]-tall skyscrapers t… Continue reading Kilometer-tall skyscrapers to double as massive batteries
A new heat-to-energy converter has reached a record efficiency of 44% – the average steam turbine manages about 35%, for comparison. This thermophotovoltaic cell is a major step on the way to sustainable, grid-scale renewable energy storage.Continue Re… Continue reading Thermal power cell harvests electricity from heat at record efficiency
It’s rarely great news when an area gets blanketed in volcanic ash – but University of Barcelona researchers have discovered it has a rare combination of useful properties, which make it remarkably useful as an energy storage medium.Continue ReadingCat… Continue reading Volcanic ash: The cheapest battery for solar energy storage
Israeli company BaroMar is preparing to test a clever new angle on grid-level energy storage, which it says will be the cheapest way to stabilize renewable grids over longer time scales. This innovative system lets water do the work.Continue ReadingCat… Continue reading Sea-bed ‘air batteries’ offer cheaper long-term energy storage
RheEnergise’s HD Hydro 500 kW demonstrator will soon begin construction at mining company Sibelco’s facility in Cornwood outside Plymouth in Devon, UK.Continue ReadingCategory: Energy, ScienceTags: Hydroelectric, Renewable Energy, Grid-Level Energy Sto… Continue reading Advanced ‘high-density waterless hydro’ energy plant gets green light
An energy supplier in Finland has announced the upcoming construction of an underground seasonal thermal energy storage facility about the size of two Madison Square Gardens that could meet the heating demands of a medium-sized city for up to a year.Co… Continue reading 90-GWh thermal energy storage facility could heat a city for a year
Part of the exorbitant cost of offshore wind energy is the massive crane ships required to install the damn things – but Norwegian company Windspider has come up with a brilliantly lightweight crane system that promises to slash costs in half.Continue … Continue reading Self-assembling crane promises to halve cost of offshore wind setup