You know what an offshore wind turbine looks like. A giant pole, three blades, bolted to the seafloor. The catch is it only works in shallow water, around 80 meters or less. That rules out most of the ocean, which is where the strongest, steadiest winds actually are. A Swedish company called SeaTwir
What if all the heat your car engine, a factory, or a power plant throws away could run the grid instead? A new engine turns that waste heat into electricity, even the low-grade stuff today's best systems struggle with. It has no moving parts, and the wild part is who built it. Dr. Lonnie Johnson, t
How a Plug-In Home Battery Finally Works for Renters and Apartments. For most people right now, home batteries kind of suck. You spend ten to fifteen thousand dollars, wait on permits, and pay an electrician, and that is only if you own a house that can take one. A new plug-in home battery changes t
How a Saltwater Battery Desalinates Seawater and Captures Carbon. Drop your phone in the ocean and you learn fast that seawater destroys batteries. So a seawater battery that actually runs on the stuff sounds backwards. Yet researchers in Korea have spent over a decade building one. This single syst
There's $67 billion in critical minerals sitting in your trash can right now. Old laptops, dead drills, that printer you keep meaning to throw out. The piles of waste outside old mines hold even more. By some estimates, between e-waste recycling and mine tailings, America already has nearly all the
Every year, some company claims they've cracked long-duration energy storage. And every year, we're still leaning on lithium-ion batteries that tap out after a few hours. You've heard the promises. You've seen the press releases. And you're probably as tired
