It's sometimes difficult to stay positive about the future when there are so many troubling news about the impacts of climate change, environment degradation and our governments' apparent lack of sufficient action. While veganism and weaning people off animal products can help in combating the above mentioned problems, modern society is still heavily dependents on huge amounts of energy to power things such as transportation, manufacturing, heating & cooling of homes, computers, TVs, refrigeration ...
It's largely up to scientists and technologists to find solutions in this area, and I thought it might help our mood a bit if we could have a thread to share and discuss news regarding advances in science & technology to provide green energy.
Here's an article about recent advances in nuclear fusion that I read earlier today. The Australian company HB11 Energy has come up with a novel way of creating a viable fusion reactor that doesn't require the incredibly high temperatures needed by facilities such as ITER:
Tonight I also came across this story about an innovation by scientists at City University of Hong Kong that harvests energy from falling rain drops:
It's largely up to scientists and technologists to find solutions in this area, and I thought it might help our mood a bit if we could have a thread to share and discuss news regarding advances in science & technology to provide green energy.
Here's an article about recent advances in nuclear fusion that I read earlier today. The Australian company HB11 Energy has come up with a novel way of creating a viable fusion reactor that doesn't require the incredibly high temperatures needed by facilities such as ITER:
Tonight I also came across this story about an innovation by scientists at City University of Hong Kong that harvests energy from falling rain drops: