The increased use of lithium-ion batteries in everything from portable electronics to grid-scale energy storage has also spurred on battery research. It's the never-ending quest for the next big thing. And for years, now solid-state batteries have been promised as that thing. Companies like Samsung, Quantum scape, and
Hydrogen and fuel cells are often held up as one of the big solutions to getting off fossil fuels, but what if I told you that 95% of hydrogen is currently produced from fossil fuels? 1 This is when green hydrogen typically comes up. But what is it and how
With solar panels and wind turbines sprawling across the globe, clean energy is taking over fossil fuels, which seem to be dead and buried, but are they? Is our renewable energy future really inevitable? The technologies that made recent history As of 2019, renewable technologies accounted for only 11% of
Last year a friend of mine and his wife sold their home, bought an RV, installed solar panels and a battery system, and then hit the road with their two dogs. All while working as a software developer from the road. I couldn't help myself ... between the solar
Imagine traveling inside a levitating capsule within a vacuum tube while going 200 mph faster than a 747, powered by renewable energy. Could Elon Musk and The Boring Company be digging cost efficient tunnels to lay the groundwork for a system like that? Let’s explore the Hyperloop, where things
Thanks to the rise of intermittent renewable energy sources, we’ve seen increased demand for new energy storage technologies, like batteries, pumped storage hydropower, and flywheels. But what if I told you that this little toy, a 200-year-old invention, combined with thermal energy storage might be
When building a house, homeowners have several ways to power their heating and cooling systems, like oil, natural gas, or electricity. But there’s another option right below our feet. You can install geothermal heating and cooling at you home, but is it worth the cost? And how does it hold up?
Imagine a world where blindness and deafness can be reversed. Or never forgetting a name, face, or date. Being able to augment the brainpower we're born with to offload memories and correct human maladies. That's what Elon Musk and the team at Neuralink are setting out to do, but is it the future of
Exploring Passing House Design - 90% Energy Savings! What if I told you that it’s possible to build a house that uses up to 90% less energy than your current house? And combining that with solar panels you could heat, cool, and even charge an EV for just a few hundred dollars a year? Let’s take a cl
From smartphones and laptops to the rapidly growing EV market, we need an incredible amount of lithium ion batteries to make it all work. Materials like lithium are difficult and time consuming to mine and extract ... and can have a major impact on the environment. Can nanotechnology solve our lithi
What if I told you there was an always-on, carbon free, renewable power source deep beneath the earth's surface. Why haven't we been using this power source, literally available under our feet, as much as possible? Let's look at the explanation behind Geothermal energy and it's challenges ... one of
With a global population that's expected to hit 9.7 billion by 2050 and have less arable land to grow food on, what do we do? How about putting robots, AI, and some really cool technology to work to grow food in three dimensions? Let's take a look at the future of food and the growth of vertical far