The future of clean energy? Sustainable microgrids
Sustainable microgrids are finally becoming really affordable and are starting to change the way we think about energy consumption.
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The battery of the future? Iron powder
Think of iron powder as a charged battery. When it is burned, you get energy from it and what is left is a dead battery in the form of rust. By making iron dust out of the rust again, you recharge the battery. And you can do it again and again. The capacity of iron powder for energy storage is impressive.
Behind the scenes of the new Amazon electric vehicle
Better performance, lower environmental impact? The only way was to do it yourself. The new Amazon electric vehicle is tailor-made. It even has Alexa.
At SuperBowl the stars of the commercials were electric cars
$5 million for 30-second launch: SuperBowl commercials showcase top products and yearly trends, and this is the year of electric cars.
A team of scientists thinks we should live in mushroom houses
A speculative and provocative paper by a team of European academics explores the possibility of living in houses made of mushrooms. Living building.
Fires in Australia, a climate suicide
What is happening with the fires in Australia is far from being an inevitable fatality. Now there's little time to fix it, but what about the will?
Qatar 2022, it's so hot that even the outside air is air conditioned
They predict the 2022 Qatar World Cup with zero impact, but continue with emissions in an already unlivable area.
WheeM-I, electric vehicle for the disabled: mobility without barriers
WheeM-I is an electric vehicle for the disabled that extends the benefits of mobility sharing and autonomous driving to all: Italdesign has just presented it.
Renewables can take out oil decades ago
The “oil” narrative is coming to an end. Peak oil forecasts will be seen lower, and the real shift in renewables will begin as early as this decade.
Bioceramic domes: houses of a world with a crazy climate
Buckminster Fuller's ideas see the light after 70 years thanks to more accessible materials. The world is ready to live under bioceramic domes.
6 protagonists of precision agriculture, the future of food
The use of batteries for vehicles and agricultural machinery promises to revolutionize the cultivation industry by lowering costs and improving production. From large tractors to small harvesting machines, all vehicles will be completely transformed by electric. On the other hand, current agriculture is under pressure: on the one hand the need to produce more food to avoid the food crisis. On the other hand, the need to reduce waste and abuse of land and water. Precision agriculture can increase the production of… Read more
The ITER nuclear fusion reactor is preparing to leave
Getting reactions from nuclear fusion that give more energy than you put into the system can be the final answer to the climate crisis.
Long live Apollo! 10 technologies of today born from the mission to the Moon
For those who still wonder what served to go to the Moon, here are 10 pieces of modern technology born directly from the Apollo mission.
Google quietly invested in cold fusion
The cold fusion experiments had been classified to avoid expectations and repercussions on the image of the Mountain View company. Here's how it went.
Costa Rica: 100% plastic and carbon free within 2 years
The goal is the most ambitious of all: to completely eliminate plastic and fossils by 2021. If there is a country that can do it, it is Costa Rica.
Australian climate study reveals: humanity may collapse by 2050
The path to the end of society first, of civilization then has already been taken at full speed.
Surgery in times of climate threat: it's time for 'green' anesthesia
“I try to take precautions. I don't turn on too many lights, take shorter showers, or anything. I do what I can. But in my profession it is a very simple gesture that can have a gigantic impact."
5×1000 to the WWF: give a gift to the future.
Our planet needs a small overhaul: with an economy increasingly in crisis and an epochal transition from an energy system based on fossil fuels to another (hopefully ever closer) that focuses entirely on renewables, our presence activity is increasingly important to guarantee new generations greater freedom, greater variety of species and less pollution. We can do a lot: an important principle that will be able to keep our ecosystem standing is to... Read more
Hansen predicts: the seas will be higher than 7 meters
A chilling prophecy comes to us from James Hansen, 68 years of which almost 30 spent at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies: he almost never makes an observation wrong. In 1981 he wrote that the following decade would mark peak heat and the prediction came true. At the beginning of the nineties he said that the first decade of the new century would beat the previous record and this time too the facts proved him right. Let's hope that now he is wrong because the scenario he draws is... Read more
The invisible impact: how tires pollute our planet
From oceans to soil, the polluting impact of tires is everywhere. Let's find out together how to deal with this problem.
Ecoworks, a prefabricated "cover" that adapts buildings energetically
It takes months, years to decarbonise every single building: with this prefabricated solution it is possible to do it in a few weeks.
