In California, a renewable energy storage system will be one of the largest in the world when it comes online this summer. The Nova Battery Bank, designed and built by Calpine, will be able to power 680,000 homes for 4 hours. Why only 4 hours? The Nova Power Bank is envisioned as helping cope with […]

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University of Queensland scientists had a remarkable eureka moment when they accidentally turned the most common greenhouse gas into electricity. By using positive and negative ions of different sizes, the team created electricity from CO2, and now believes that their ‘nanogenerators’ could help improve the reputation of the simple molecule. Now thoroughly demonized, it pays […]

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A monumental discovery has been made on the island nation of Tonga, where the footprint of a large urban civilization from centuries past was uncovered using cutting-edge laser technology. Consisting of almost 10,000 earthen mounds that today are hardly noticeable, it could be one of the first cities ever constructed in the Pacific. With the […]

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