On our planet, 2 billion people have no clean drinking water. Luckily, many independent businesses are trying to come up with a number of solutions to the problem. Watergen, an Israeli company, is using the fact that our atmosphere contains 3,095 cubic miles of...
Australia's severe bushfires have threatened the koala population. Queensland University of Technology, QUT, has been working for many years with monitoring the population using sensors and drones, but now the project will be ramped up significantly. A donation...
Cars and aircraft have been powered by the same principles of combusting fossil fuels since their inception. Fueled by growing environmental concerns, the auto, aircraft, and shipping industries are looking for alternate solutions. Of course, this transition is...
One of the fundamental requirements for a diaper is that it must not leak. To guarantee this, diaper manufacturers use super-absorbent materials that soak up large amounts of liquid. Unfortunately, fossil petroleum oil is used to produce these materials, which has a...
Mozambique has started constructing a US$32 million solar system that comprises solar panels and utility-scale battery energy storage, the first of its kind in the country.The project, located in Tetereane District of Cuamba (Niassa Province), will have a combined...
Today, lithium-ion is dominating in terms of battery technology. But there has never been more research on batteries, and many different types are in the making.One type is the sodium-ion battery which promises to be safer, cleaner, and cheaper than the lithium-ion...