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Forget batteries, Canada plans to store energy in giant underwater balloons

Forget batteries, Canada plans to store energy in giant underwater balloons

Greetings, Forget batteries, Canada plans to store energy in giant underwater balloons digital-trends By Kelly Hodgkins Canada’s Hydrostor has developed a creative energy storage solution that is half the cost…

Goodbye Gasoline, Hello Chinese Battery Power

Greetings, Goodbye Gasoline, Hello Chinese Battery Power THEY’RE HERE. PHOTOGRAPH: JUSTIN JUINEN/BLOOMBERG PHOTOGRAPHER: JASPER JUINEN By David Fickling Remember carburetors? They used to be a crucial part of pretty much…

Is Iran Opening a “Secret Passage” to Asia for Russian Crude?

Is Iran Opening a “Secret Passage” to Asia for Russian Crude?

Greetings, Is Iran Opening a “Secret Passage” to Asia for Russian Crude? Iran-Russia crude swap deal could be an intro to Russia exporting crude via Iranian ports in the gulf…

Quantum Process Significantly Boosts the Energy That Can Be Harnessed from Sunlight

Greetings, Quantum Process Significantly Boosts the Energy That Can Be Harnessed from Sunlight Researchers Significantly Boost the Energy That Can Be Harnessed from Sunlight A newly published study details how…

The Groundfridge is like a modern-day root cellar

The Groundfridge is like a modern-day root cellar

Greetings, The Groundfridge is like a modern-day root cellar In 2008, root cellars were back in vogue, according to The New York Times. Our grandparents who stored gourds and other…

How to Make a Solar Still

How to Make a Solar Still

Greetings, How to Make a Solar Still Make your own distilled water and other liquids using these DIY solar still plans.   Turn undrinkable water into pure, crystal-clear distilled water…

New design points a path to the ‘ultimate’ battery

New design points a path to the ‘ultimate’ battery

Greetings, New design points a path to the ‘ultimate’ battery Many of the technologies we use every day have been getting smaller, faster and cheaper each year — with the…

Scientists develop transparent cooling coating for solar cells

Scientists develop transparent cooling coating for solar cells

Greetings, Scientists develop transparent cooling coating for solar cells Researchers at the Stanford University have developed a new coating that allows sunlight to hit solar cells while shunting away the…

Off The Grid: How To Convert An Electric Sewing Machine Into A Non-Power Treadle

Greetings, How To Convert An Electric Sewing Machine Into A Non-Power Treadle Prior to electricity, equipment was powered by animals, water or even humans. Today, many power tools, or at…

Organic Semiconductor Breakthrough Could Literally Reshape Solar Cells

Organic Semiconductor Breakthrough Could Literally Reshape Solar Cells

Greetings, Organic Semiconductor Breakthrough Could Literally Reshape Solar Cells New Breakthrough Could Reshape Solar Cells and Electronic Devices In full bloom: A scanning electron microscopy image produced by Jessica Wang…

Making batteries with portabella mushrooms

Making batteries with portabella mushrooms

Greetings, Making batteries with portabella mushrooms Porous structure of portabella mushrooms is key to making efficient batteries that could power cell phones, electric vehicles Diagram showing how mushrooms are turned…

Green storage for green energy Rechargeable battery to power a home from rooftop solar panels

Green storage for green energy Rechargeable battery to power a home from rooftop solar panels

Greetings, Green storage for green energy Rechargeable battery to power a home from rooftop solar panels Harvard researchers wanted to improve on their 2014 flow battery. Their goal was to…

Scientists Achieve New Quantum Teleportation Record

Scientists Achieve New Quantum Teleportation Record

Greetings, Scientists Achieve New Quantum Teleportation Record   Scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology have set a new record for quantum teleportation, sending quantum information in light…

Physicists show ‘molecules’ made of light may be possible

Physicists show ‘molecules’ made of light may be possible

Greetings, Physicists show ‘molecules’ made of light may be possible Researchers show that two photons, depicted in this artist’s conception as waves (left and right), can be locked together at…

US Trying To Stop It: Russia Close to Deal to Build Pakistan Pipeline

US Trying To Stop It: Russia Close to Deal to Build Pakistan Pipeline

  Russia Close to Deal to Build Pakistan Pipeline Russian Energy Minister says agreement is now ready and could be signed later this month The pipeline in question would run…

African Development: Kenya and China team up to build nuclear power plants

African Development: Kenya and China team up to build nuclear power plants

Greetings, Kenya and China team up to build nuclear power plants The Fuqing Nuclear Power Plant, which will use China’s third-generation nuclear power technology, under construction in Fujian province. (File…

Spotlight: Egypt gas discovery sends shock waves to Israel

Spotlight: Egypt gas discovery sends shock waves to Israel

Greetings, Spotlight: Egypt gas discovery sends shock waves to Israel A huge natural gas field discovered recently offshore Egypt has triggered jitters in Israel, with energy stocks plummeting and politicians…

Solar water-splitting technology developed

Solar water-splitting technology developed

Greetings, Solar water-splitting technology developed Process uses light-harvesting nanoparticles, captures energy from ‘hot electrons’ Rice University researchers have demonstrated an efficient new way to capture the energy from sunlight and…

Artificial leaf harnesses sunlight for efficient fuel production

Artificial leaf harnesses sunlight for efficient fuel production

Greetings, Artificial leaf harnesses sunlight for efficient fuel production A highly efficient photoelectrochemical (PEC) device uses the power of the sun to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. The stand-alone…

World’s Thinnest Light Bulb Created from Graphene

World’s Thinnest Light Bulb Created from Graphene

Greetings, World’s Thinnest Light Bulb Created from Graphene by Jesse Emspak, Live Science Contributor Graphene, a form of carbon famous for being stronger than steel and more conductive than copper,…

Obama’s “Clean Energy Plan” profits off of the misery of Black America/The poor

Obama’s “Clean Energy Plan” profits off of the misery of Black America/The poor

Greetings, This shows you just how compromised this negro is when he is willing to sell-out black America and the poor to corporations that profit off of your misery. They…

How To Build An Off-Grid Home, Essentially For Free

How To Build An Off-Grid Home, Essentially For Free

Greetings, How To Build An Off-Grid Home, Essentially For Free There is nothing quite as promising and exciting as purchasing bare acreage with plans to turn it into a working…

4 Ways To Get Internet Access Off-Grid (Even Without Electricity)

4 Ways To Get Internet Access Off-Grid (Even Without Electricity)

Greetings, 4 Ways To Get Internet Access Off-Grid (Even Without Electricity) The Internet is an integral part of modern life. We use it for countless things – emailing Mom, buying…

New Biosensors Turn Bacteria Into a Source of Natural Energy

New Biosensors Turn Bacteria Into a Source of Natural Energy

Greetings, New Biosensors Turn Bacteria Into a Source of Natural Energy Researchers Turn Engineered Bacteria into a Source of Natural Energy New biosensors enable complex genetic reprogramming of common bacteria…

Iran researchers make biodiesel from weed

Iran researchers make biodiesel from weed

  Iran researchers make biodiesel from weed Iranian researchers have produced biodiesel from flixweed crop. Iranian researchers have produced biodiesel from the flixweed crop as a potential renewable energy substitute…

(Video)Eco-friendly 3D printed super-car

(Video)Eco-friendly 3D printed super-car

Greetings,       Eco-friendly 3D printed super-car…

Quantum scientists engineer ‘quietest-ever gas’

Quantum scientists engineer ‘quietest-ever gas’

Greetings, Quantum scientists create engineer ‘quietest-ever gas’ Scientists have created a gas with the lowest-ever level of entropy, which will help the study of elusive quantum effects and potentially create…

Off The Grid: 17 Easy-To-Store Items That Should Be In Your ‘Barter Stockpile’

Off The Grid: 17 Easy-To-Store Items That Should Be In Your ‘Barter Stockpile’

Greetings, Note: With the exception of #1 & #4, I do believe that this is somewhat of a good list. Even though #12 has knives, when we look at knives…

Liquid Solar Technology Could Be Next Gen of Renewable Energy

Liquid Solar Technology Could Be Next Gen of Renewable Energy

Greetings, Liquid Solar Technology Could Be Next Gen of Renewable Energy “The first working prototype, created in 2009, was a quarter of a grain of rice in size” Look out…

Off The Grid: Life-Saving Skills You Can Practice In Your Own Yard

Off The Grid: Life-Saving Skills You Can Practice In Your Own Yard

Greetings, Life-Saving Skills You Can Practice In Your Own Yard Many off-the-gridders have extensively prepared for an uncertain future. Much of the preparation concerns being as self-reliant as possible on…