When record rainfall caused flooding in south-east Queensland last February, Steve McLean’s solar installers stayed off their roofs, blowing a $60,000 hole in his company’s budget and setting back what could to have been another record year for his business. “If we didn’t do a system for five weeks, you can imagine nobody else did. […]
There are a number of ways to harness the power of the sun. One way is through solar architecture. Another is through the use of solar-thermal energy. You can also use the power of the Sun to create electricity, which is known as photovoltaic power. Photovoltaic Photovoltaic Solar Power is a type of energy that […]
DIY solar light projects offer an economical and efficient way to power homes using energy from the sun. So it makes sense to assemble a street light system that takes solar energy to charge a battery during the day and then uses this battery to light up the street at night. And you can make […]
Behind the “billionaire biffo” between Mike Cannon-Brookes and Andrew Forrest over the future of Sun Cable is a project that analysts are calling “visionary” but also “extremely ambitious”. In Australia’s first major business story of the year, Sun Cable was placed into voluntary administration on Wednesday. It signaled the company could not make debt payments […]
A novel technique called Underground Gravity Energy Storage turns decommissioned mines into long-term energy storage solutions, thereby supporting the sustainable energy transition. Renewable energy sources are central to the energy transition toward a more sustainable future. However, as sources like sunshine and wind are inherently variable and inconsistent, finding ways to store […]
Translating electrochemical performance of large format batteries to microscale power sources has been a long-standing technological challenge, limiting the ability of batteries to power microdevices, microrobots and implantable medical devices. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign researchers have created a high-voltage microbattery (> 9 V), with high-energy and -power density, unparalleled by any existing battery design. […]
