
⚡️ Energy


💨 This way we can get more energy out of existing wind power
Researchers at MIT in the USA have developed a model that makes it possible to optimize how wind turbines use the wind in a better way.By controlling how the wind turbines move with the new algorithm developed by the researchers, it is possible to increase efficiency...
⚡️ Huge water battery to store excess energy
In the Swiss Alps, located in a subterranean cavern in the Canton of Valais, lies Switzerland's new huge water battery. This pumped storage power plant can store as much electricity as 400 000 electric car batteries.So what is this water battery? Basically...
🥦 Huge benefits from growing broccoli shaded by solar panels
A study conducted by Chonnam National University in South Korea has deep dived into the research area of agrivoltaics, which is the study of how solar power and agriculture can coexist and also benefit from each other. There is especially one crop that thrives in the...
🔋 Can nuclear waste become batteries that last for thousands of years?
NDB, a company based in California, USA, claims to have found the solution for how to handle nuclear waste and how to have access to batteries that can cope with the increasing dependence on electricity in, among other things, means of transport, writes...