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Smoothing Out the Wind
Friday, March 19th, 2010A cunning plan to store energy underwater may help fulfil the promise of wind power
THE problem with wind power is that is cannot always be relied upon. The wind—and other transient, environmental energy sources such as solar—must either be used when it is harvested or stored expensively in batteries or specially [...]
Going, going, gone
Thursday, March 18th, 2010Image via Wikipedia
The second most common element in the universe is increasingly rare on Earth—except, for now, in America.
About 20 kilometers northwest of Amarillo, Texas, beneath a geological structure called the Bush Dome, lies the world’s largest repository of a substance that, sooner or later, will become more precious than gold: [...]
Backpack Power Plant offers hydroelectricity on the move
Thursday, March 18th, 2010Hydroelectric power specialist Bourne Energy has developed a human-portable hydroelectric generator which can create clean, quiet power from any stream deeper than four feet.
The “Backpack Power Plant”, which joins the company’s Riverstar, Oceanstar and Tidalstar designs, is aimed at bringing cheap, practical energy technology to remote areas.
Bourne Energy has developed two [...]
Going, going, gone
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010Image by Getty Images via Daylife
The second most common element in the universe is increasingly rare on Earth—except, for now, in America.
About 20 kilometers northwest of Amarillo, Texas, beneath a geological structure called the Bush Dome, lies the world’s largest repository of a substance that, sooner or later, will become more [...]
Sunshine is free, so can photovoltaics be cheap?
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010Image via CrunchBase
Here’s how to make a solar cell from silicon: take one solid block of doped silicon, saw it into thin wafers, layer said semiconductors beneath a panel of transparent glass, connect them to a metal electrode that can channel away the electrons knocked loose by incoming photons and turn [...]
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