Solar panels and wind turbines give the world bountiful energy — but come with a conundrum. When it’s sunny and windy out, in many places these renewables produce more electricity than is actually ...

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Solar panels and wind turbines give the world bountiful energy—but come with a conundrum. When it’s sunny and windy out, in many places these renewables produce more electricity than is actually ...

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This video explains how pumped storage power plants act as massive batteries, storing excess electricity by moving water ...

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Next-generation batteries, which may include alkali metal anodes, solid electrolytes, or cathodes made from Earth-abundant ...

SAPPORO, Japan — Ocean winds whip across the beaches, hillsides and sprawling plains of Hokkaido. There’s enough wind energy here for Japan’s northernmost island to power itself and export clean ...

In an effort to reduce the use of precious land to build renewable energy storage facilities, the Fraunhofer Institute has been cooking up a wild but plausible idea: dropping concrete storage spheres ...

The goal of the L.A. Department of Water and Power program is to help low-income households save on their bills while ...

Wind energy infrastructure doesn’t produce power if the air isn’t moving, and solar doesn’t generate power if the sun’s not out. But that doesn’t mean that either source of energy is "worthless" ...

A team at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), led by Professor Miguel Ángel del Pozo Barriuso, who heads the Mechanoadaptation and Caveolae Biology group at the CNIC, has ...