Power

Honeybee Robotics has outlined a plan to build a kind of power grid on the Moon, with a network of Statue of Liberty-sized towers containing solar panels and batteries that provide power and communications, and even act as streetlights.

Rolls-Royce gave us a glimpse of the nuclear future of next-generation spacecraft and Moon bases when it unveiled a mock-up of its Space Micro-Reactor Concept Model at the UK Space Conference in Belfast, which ran between November 21 to 31, 2023.

​After opening the world’s first commercial Direct Air Capture (DAC) plant designed to pull CO2 out of the air, Swiss company Climeworks is now joining forces with a geothermal power plant in Iceland to create the world’s first “negative emission” power plant.

A team of researchers has designed an exciting new energy storage system they call 'a biological supercapacitor' which could offer wearers battery-free implantable devices that never need to be replaced.

A new campus renewable energy system at Stanford University, known as SESI, uses a first-of-its-kind heat recovery system, while drawing a substantial percentage of its electricity from solar. Greenhouse gas emissions will be cut by 68 percent and fossil fuel use cut by 65 percent.

Japan hopes to one day harvest power from an orbiting solar farm and beam electricity back to Earth. This week it announced the successful test of such a wireless power system at a small scale.

Generally speaking, wind turbines are banished to uninhabited countryside, or even out to sea.A French entrepreneur says that sculpting them in the form of artificial trees could see them more widely adopted in urban centers, making use of weaker winds that circulate around buildings and streets.

The Power Pallet works by burning available biomass, but before the fuel is fully combusted, the resulting flammable gases like hydrogen and carbon monoxide are spirited away to be used instead as fuel in a General Motors engine that acts as an electrical generator.

MIT researchers propose building floating nuclear plants, far enough offshore to simply ride out a tsunami, and weather it untouched.

Back in 2011, Festo created a natural-flight mimicking bionic seagull with flapping wings dubbed SmartBird. The company is now looking to apply similar principles in order to convert wind power into electricity with its DualWingGenerator system.

The seafloor carpet, a system inspired by the wave absorbing abilities of a muddy seabed being developed at the University of California, Berkeley, takes exploring wave power as a renewable energy source to some intriguing new depths.

An inexpensive, high capacity, organic battery has been developed at Harvard. The technology, which uses carbon-based materials as electrolytes rather than metals, stands to improve the reliability and uptake of renewable energy.