Environment
Firebricks will become a popular and cheap storage of green energy
A group of scientists at Stanford University published a paper in which they predicted the growth rate of thermal accumulation…
A flying shopping cart has been built in South Korea
Scientists from Seoul National University of Science and Technology (SeoulTech) have developed a flying platform for moving cargo without contact…
Leclanché introduced the world’s first lithium-niobium battery for heavy equipment – it will withstand 10 thousand recharge cycles
The Swiss company Leclanché SA presented, in its words, the world's first lithium-niobium battery for electric heavy equipment, designed for…
China has created the world’s most capacious battery in a standard 6-meter container – 8 MWh
The transition to renewable energy does not make sense without networked energy storage devices that would smooth out peaks in…
The world’s largest 30-MW flywheel energy storage device has launched in China.
China has become a testing ground for promising energy storage devices, among which the newly launched flywheel-based buffer power plant…
Google has invested in directly removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere at a record low price
Google struck a deal to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere at a bargain price: $100 per tonne of CO₂,…
Carbon dioxide emissions from data centers will amount to 2.5 billion tons by 2030
The data center boom is expected to push the industry's carbon emissions to 2.5 billion tons by the end of…
The world’s most powerful offshore wind generator is installed in China – 292 m in diameter and 20 MW
The world's most powerful offshore wind generator, whose blades cover an area equivalent to nine football fields, was recently installed…
Europe’s first factory for the production of LFP batteries opened in Norway
The Norwegians were the first in Europe to import-substitute the production of lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries. Recently, the first…
The world’s largest solar power plant will be built in Australia – it will power 3 million homes, and the surplus will be sold to Singapore
Australia's current Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has announced the issuance of an environmental permit for the creation of the world's…