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SMART ENERGY: Self-assembling solar arrays as easy as mixing oil and water
"Researchers modify tiny solar "chiplets" to get them to self-assemble, driven by the free energy of their interactions with an oil-water interface." Read More.. Source: Ars Technica It will be interesting to see if researchers...
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FACTS: Feed-in or fed-up - a flawed solar incentive
re in Victoria, Australia, homes with solar systems are about to get access to a feed-in tariff scheme that's claimed by the Minister for Energy and resources as "a pillar of Victoria's climate change strategy."...
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SMART ENERGY: The open community smart grid
You may have heard of the smart grid initiative being rolled out across our cities and run by big utility companies, but have you asked why this initiative only delivers what the utility companies want?...
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SMART ENERGY: The EV fleet: our future energy storage network
To make renewables work well our smart energy future is going to require lots and lots of battery storage, because if the wind's not blowing and the sun's not shining, where else will all the...
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FACTS: Electrons, electrons everywhere, what's this got to do with my en...
Well plenty! You see, we literally live in a sea of them. Fundamentally we are made from them (and other atoms...), and we use a hell of a lot of them to do things for...
