New type of gravity battery may be able to store energy forever
The quest for unlimited and clean energy has been a long one, with over fifty-plus years in the endeavor to find new ways to combat …
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China plans to tap the Sun’s boundless energy with an orbiting solar farm
Our Sun is the most readily available source of energy we have available to us, but harnessing its incredible power is something humanity is still …
NASA wants to save humanity from death by supervolcano
We live with the knowledge that any number of end-of-the-world scenarios could be right around the corner. From drug-resistant disease outbreaks to impacts from large …
Turning the Sahara desert into a wind and solar farm might make it green
You’ve probably had a solar-powered calculator since the 1980s, but it’s only been within the past decade or so that the potential of large-scale solar …
Coffee-powered buses are coming… seriously
Nothing gets the body going for a hard day’s work like a nice tall cup of coffee. Many of us just can’t get through the …
Ocean winds could power the entire planet, but harnessing them could also kill us
Okay, I’ve got some good news and some bad news, which one do you want first? Let’s start with the good news: New research into …
We may be on the verge of a major breakthrough that will let us beam solar energy down to Earth
One of the humanity’s problems, whether we like to acknowledge it or not, is that we’re still heavily dependent on fossil fuel. Not only that, …
