| White hot, liquid silicon could prove to be an economic way of storing intermittent grid power. Power generated by photovoltaic cells and wi...
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| Sometimes you get really odd projects touted on crowd-funding sites. One such novel ‘device’ that appeared recently on Indiegogo promises fr...
| A research group at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology in Japan has been working on submersible turbines to generate electrical...
| Press releases from research institutions always offer tantalizing new technologies but you know there are still many hurdles along the way...
| The most obvious reason for switching to renewable energy sources is to offset climate change. The switch to new energy sources also offers...
| To make the transition to a low carbon energy system we need all the available technologies like wind, solar, biomass and hydropower as well...
| During a visit from some friends recently I was trying to think of some interesting activity for the older children in the party who seemed...
| The Paris Agreement was debated and adopted by consensus during the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21) of the United Nations Framework C...
| Many years ago, interrupting my return from Sydney to Stockholm, I stopped in Brisbane (Australia) to give a half-dozen amateur and half-bak...
| MIT engineers have proposed a new way to improve solar cell performance by using special ‘funnels’ to capture photons. The funnels would be...