Air conditioner use under climate change will overload the USA’s electric grids
It takes a lot of juice to stave off heat.
Tag: electricity
What was electricity up to before we discovered it?
Electricity is quite busy in the natural world.
New nanodevice converts wasted heat into more battery life
A clever device runs at the fringe of physics to solve our wasted energy problems.
Bitcoin to consume 0.5% of the world’s electricity — as much as Ireland
Bitcoin may have made some people rich, but it also consumed a lot of energy and produced a lot of ...
Why does electricity hum — and why is it a B flat in the US, and a G in Europe?
Who knew sound and current can intertwine so much?
Germany produced 85% of its electricity demand from renewable energy
Germany took the lead in renewable energy for one day.
The combined capacity of the renewable energy sector overtakes that of coal
No more black lung.
We’ll soon be able to hack our nerves into controlling diseases
The new method could treat a wide range of diseases, from diabetes to arthritis.
Origami battery that runs on a few drops of water could revolutionize biosensors
This disposable battery runs on bacteria and folds like an origami ninja star. Sold!
Georgetown University team found you can literally zap creativity into your brain
Electrically stimulating the frontopolar cortex can enhance creativity, a new study from Georgetown University found.
After 115 years of history, Scotland closes its very last coal-fired plant
The largest and last coal-fired plant in operation in Scotland was officially shut down, marking an end to an 115-years-long ...
This is how one French power plant produces electricity using cheese
The town of Albertville in southeastern France has begun using cheese to generate electricity. Their power plant, build in the ...
This electric generator is only a few atoms thin
Researchers from Columbia Engineering and the Georgia Institute of Technology report the first experimental proof of piezoelectricity and the piezotronic ...
Advances in magnet technology could bring cheaper, modular fusion reactors from sci-fi to sci-reality in less than a decade
Advances in magnet technology have allowed MIT scientists to design a cheaper, more compact, modular and highly efficient fusion reactor ...
Dutch Company Harvests Electricity From Living Plants, Powering Street Lights, Cell Phones and Wi-fi
Forget potato clocks - this is the real deal. Plant-e, a start-up company in the Netherlands created promising new technology ...
Electric Mind Control: How the Electric Eel Dominates its Prey
The Electric Eel, a scaleless fish from the Amazon possesses an electroshock system very similar to a Taser. Not only can ...
Thin metasurface absorbs sound near perfectly, while producing electricity at the same time
Image: Nature Researchers at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology have created a thin metamaterial ...
People prefer getting an electric shock than being left alone with their thoughts
Illustration: niemer.deviantart.com Here's a weird study. A group of psychologists at University of Virginia introduced men and ...
Power lines may be absolutely terryfing animals and disrupt herding
High voltage power lines aren't quite the safest places to be around, especially if you're a large animal or bird ...