Just one short-haul flight a year produces 10% of our individual carbon emissions. We could go back to trains for our traveling, which produce about half the CO2 of a plane, but you don’t always have the time. What if we could get the speed of air travel with the lower emissions of ground-travel? Enter the airship (aka blimp).
Turning Buildings into Batteries? Concrete Battery Storage Explained
Turning Buildings into Batteries? Concrete Battery Storage Explained.
Energy storage is the holy grail of decarbonization. If we want to get rid of fossil fuels for good, we need to be able store a large amount of surplus renewable energy over time. The current technologies available, like lithium ion batteries, may not have enough capacity to meet our power storage demand in the future. But what if we could turn our houses and buildings themselves into a battery?
The Big Misconception About Electricity
The misconception is that electrons carry potential energy around a complete conducting loop, transferring their energy to the load.
Energy Storage Breakthrough – Solid Hydrogen Explained
Green hydrogen is touted to be one of the essential ingredients for the sustainable energy mix of the future. Yet, there’s an…invisible…yet big problem. Storage, transport, and operation is complicated and expensive, but what if we could create and store solid hydrogen for cheap? A start-up may have a solid technology that could speed up the energy transition. Spoiler: It’s so good it was banned!
Powering the future: The drive for lithium
With electric cars seen as the future of the American auto industry, companies are ramping up the production of batteries, which require lithium. Correspondent Ben Tracy looks at efforts to increase lithium mining in the U.S., and the struggle over its environmental costs.
Centralized Decentralization – Transport, Energy, Solar, Powerwalls, Battery Storage
Decentralization of wealth is what creates a lot more equality in the world. But there are some elites that hoard wealth, their hoarding of wealth holds back the rest of the world by a far greater amount than what they have.
Decentralization means there is more for everyone as a result. But it’s not as efficient in someways. Which is why it also needs to be centralized. Tesla has created a decentralized centralization which is absolutely phenomenal. As a result it can create so much more abundance in the world.
It is true genius, and another reason I love this company so much. Therefore if Tesla became the biggest company in the world, the still wouldn’t have full control over you, and couldn’t profiteer with outrageous energy prices.
Exploring Why This Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough Matters
Exploring why this nuclear fusion breakthrough matters.
Before you blow your fuse and start leaving your nuclear fusion jokes in the comments, there’s been a major fusion development we have to talk about and it’s kind of a nuclear bombshell … poor choice of words … it’s big news. It’s all about high-temperature semiconductors (ie. magnets).
Exploring the 1000 Mile Car Battery – Aluminum Air Hype?
Exploring the 1000 Mile Car Battery – Aluminum Air Hype? Even though electric vehicle adoption is picking up speed, some buyers are hesitant because of range anxiety and concerns about lithium-ion battery safety. An interesting battery technology popped up recently involving metal-air technology that could make an EV with over 1000 miles of range. Is it too good to be true? Let’s explore aluminum air batteries and whether they’re a game changer or only hype.
Lithium Sulfur batteries: SOLVED! Two new tech breakthroughs in the same week!
Lithium Sulphur (or Sulfur) batteries have been on the ‘hopeful technology’ list for over a decade now. Potentially they have 5 times the energy density of existing lithium-ion batteries. The trouble is, previous prototypes had terribly short cycle lives, so they were pretty much useless. Now, after ten years of waiting, suddenly two different solutions have been announced within a week of each other, both claiming to solve the problem. So, which one will come out on top?
Lithium batteries of the future are here – all we needed was sugar! I’m not kidding
Lithium–sulfur batteries may succeed lithium-ion cells because of their higher energy density and reduced cost due to the use of sulfur instead of cobalt, which is commonly used in lithium-ion batteries.