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.
Innovation is not necessarily improvement. Uber and Lyft pollute more than the transports they replace: more environmental efforts are needed.
The general public does not realize how fast things are changing: fossil fuels are about to collapse at supersonic speed under the blows of unstoppable change. Here because.
Extreme climate, extreme remedies: even if we respect the Paris agreements, the sea will rise by 2 meters. 3 meters if we don't respect them. The shock plan to stem the North Sea appears.
In the world, the ants that we are never stop. Here is a small atlas of innovations that together will make the shape of the future.
The temperature rises and the policies do not change. The US government authorizes geoengineering studies as an extreme plan to save the climate.
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?
A shower that offers all the necessary comfort while saving three quarters of the water: it is Altered Shower, born from the talent of a startup.
Effective diagnostics, different energy, new species in the skies and more: forecasts for the future of the world in the next 10 years? Full of interesting things.
Architect Stefano Boeri creates a Smart City project that can become a paradigm of the techno-ecological communities of the future.
The potential solution to global warming revolves around solar geoengineering: chemical clouds to cool the planet.
According to a plan launched in March, Singapore plans to move industries, transportation hubs and underground warehouses to free up surface space.
BioUrban 2.0 artificial trees can make a difference in areas traveled by pedestrians, cyclists or the elderly, where planting trees is not possible.
Bioavionics integrates biological and electromechanical systems to see how their interaction will change our flight experiences.
Seedo uses machine learning technology, various sensors and light systems to feed herbs, flowers or vegetables of varying legality
Until yesterday, there was no overall estimate of how much wind energy was used in Scotland. Now there's the data: and it's surprising.
The company said the manufacturing process makes Soleine 100 times more environmentally friendly than any other protein source.
Irish swimmer and engineer John Hanley has designed Tekrapod, a device to give salvation to those who find themselves in difficulty offshore.
In 2010, scientists observed that pollution would cause global warming of 1,3°C. Today's data is just a consequence.
A Lausanne team estimated the heat that passes through the underground tunnels and designed a geothermal system to extract energy from the metro
The study published in the journal Social Science and Medicine shows that when someone goes from unemployment to a paid job of 8 hours or less per week, their risk of mental problems is reduced by at least 30%: instead there is no evidence that a longer schedule provides greater mental well-being.
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