Energy Production
Why Are Floating Wind Turbines So Huge?
With the recent news of China producing one of the largest wind turbines yet, with a rotor diameter of 260 meters (853 feet) ...
Sustainable Tech
Why Worms May Be the Future of Plastic Recycling
The vast majority of the world’s plastic isn’t recycled … and when it is, we spend more money to achieve less quality. It’s ...
Sustainable Tech
How Solar Panels Are Changing Agriculture – Agrivoltaics Revisited
As our needs for energy and food continue to rise, we’re revisiting the sunny topic of Agrivoltaics – or using land to grow ...
Sustainable Tech
Is Aquaponics the Future of Agriculture?
To live, people need food to eat and water to drink. That’s a simple fact. But with growing water scarcity around the world ...
Sustainable Tech
The Truth About Heat Pumps and Cold Weather
Heat pumps are versatile, efficient, and great for both heating and cooling … or are they? Whenever heat pumps are mentioned, critics bring ...
Energy Storage
How We Will Be Growing Batteries – Wood Battery Explained
With the ever-growing demand for electrifying everything, we need more sustainable batteries. Li-ion devices are cost-effective but rely on lithium, graphite, and other ...
Energy Production
How Solar Panels Can Help Solve California’s Drought
The southwestern U.S. is in the throes of a “megadrought” so severe that we’ve broken the record — all 1,200 years of it. ...
Sustainable Tech
The Simple Genius of a Prefabricated House – My Net Zero Home Build
I’m in the process of building a new energy efficient, net zero modular home that’s being built in a factory. Why did I ...
Energy Storage
How This Nanotechnology is Changing Mining and Batteries – Explained
With electric vehicle demand skyrocketing and the growing need for energy storage for renewables, lithium-ion batteries are one of the key technologies for ...
Sustainable Tech
My Biggest Regret Building a Net Zero Home
There are a lot of different paths you can take to get to a net-zero home. Everything from passive homes to earthships to ...
