It’s one of North America’s biggest megaprojects, but you’ve probably never heard of it. It’s all about liquid natural gas.
Groundbreaking research transmits energy from space to Earth
Earlier this year, scientists completed the first transmission of energy from space to earth, potentially revolutionizing carbon-free energy. The scientists behind the incredible achievement explain the process. Jeff Glor reports.
Is Small, Fast, & Cheap the Future of Nuclear Energy?
Nuclear is reliable, works 24/7, and generates a lot of power, all for essentially zero carbon. Get an exclusive Surfshark deal!
That comes at a price, though. Nuclear plants are really expensive, legislatively challenging, difficult to scale, and have a hotly debated reputation. But what if there was a way to build smaller, cheaper, and safer nuclear power plants sized for individual businesses or small communities? It might sound like an Atomic Age dream, but it’s already here. Are small modular reactors the path towards a nuclear future? And is nuclear power really as bad as many of us think it is?
Can The U.S. Power Grid Handle The EV Boom?
The EV revolution could put a major strain on the nation’s electric grid, an aging system built for a world that runs on fossil fuels. To upgrade the grid to meet growing electricity demand, the U.S. needs to build a massive amount of new transmission and distribution lines to connect new renewable energy resources to population centers. But there are major regulatory hurdles to grid infrastructure buildout, and the government is not investing near the amount that analysts say the nation needs in order to meet its electrification targets.
The Truth About Mineral Resources
Will batteries for hundreds of millions of future electric vehicles rob the planet of all its precious minerals? And what about all the minerals and materials for billions of wind turbines and solar panels? Can our planet really cope with the transition away from fossil fuels and will that transition really be ‘sustainable’?
Timelapse of Future Technology: Next 1000 Years
Today, we explore a timelapse of the future, specifically future technology. How will technology look 1000 years from now? In the world today, many technologies are accelerating exponentially. Humans are discovering things that would mystify scientists even a few decades ago, but our progress resembles a blip in the grand scale of our technological evolution over the next millennium.
The Tesla Charging Takeover!
Tesla collaborates with Ford, GM and Rivian (and more incoming) to build cars with their charging port. Everybody wins, IMO.
The world’s most electric city | Future of Cities
What if an entire city decided to go electric? This one is. Step into Oslo, Norway.
How Dead EV Batteries are Perfect for Energy Storage
It’s been nice to see the growing popularity of electric vehicles these last few years, but EVs need batteries and batteries don’t last forever. In fact, the first generation of EV batteries are already dying, and there’s an absolute dead battery typhoon coming. Lithium battery recycling is improving, but it’s still far from where it needs to be. Luckily there’s another option that’s pretty simple. Just take those used batteries and repurpose them for less demanding large scale energy storage. That’s exactly what’s happening at a recently opened 25 MWh grid scale energy storage system in California. But if these batteries are “dead,” how are they able to bring new life to renewable energy storage?
Revolutionizing power transmission
The energy transition solutions of the 21st Century will take many forms, with a complex mix of different power producers. Moving energy across ever greater distances will overcome much of the intermittency of renewables like wind and solar. The way we will achieve that is via truly mind boggling high voltage direct current transmission systems. The question is, can we manufacture them quickly enough?