Energy
⚡ Scotland’s goal: Reach 100 percent renewable energy by 2020
Scotland is known for its windy and, some would argue, horrible weather. But thanks to the wind, the country can extract huge amounts of renewable energy through wind turbines. The country still does not use 100 percent renewable energy, but it is well on its way....
☀️ Transparent solar cells to be tested in Sweden
The Swedish company Peafowl Solar develops transparent solar cells, which generate electricity using so-called plasmonic nanoparticles. The technology makes it possible to have windows that simultaneously generate power. Now the technology will be tested in Green...
🔆 Change the car – keep the battery
A battery that holds for two million kilometers per charge changes the logic of car buying.Today we mostly look at how many kilometers an electric car can be driven on a charge. VW’s upcoming bestseller iD3 can reach up to 550 km on a charge. Tesla has announced...
🌊💨☀️ New platform that makes renewable energy more accessible tested off the coast of Greece
The German company SINN Power has since 2015 provided solutions for generating energy from wave power. Now they are taking the next step and starting later this summer they will test a platform off the coast of Greece that not only uses wave power to generate energy,...
