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New Battery Uses Salt Water In Estuaries To Generate Electricity

By: Andres Martinez Aparicio, Journalist

Dongdong Yea, Xingzhen Qin, and colleagues designed a semipermeable membrane from environmentally friendly materials to generate electricity. The invention uses estuaries and salt differences in concentration...

Solar Power Trees

By: Nathan Brown, Journalist

The solar panels that are like leaves on the solar powered trees get re-charged every day by the sun and that created electricity that is used to kill the bugs. As technology advances, solar powered trees might become more and more similar to real trees and other plants.

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Algae Farms: Nature’s Versatile Green Solution

By: Pranav Sharma, Journalist

Algae farms hold promise as a renewable source of biofuels, such as biodiesel and bioethanol. Certain species of algae produce oils that can be extracted and converted into fuels with properties similar to conventional fossil fuels.

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Quantum Batteries

By: Kaleb Fuard, Journalist

Quantum batteries are a new way to store energy. They could be a great replacement for lithium batteries. They use quantum mechanics instead of normal physics. They are not quite reading and scientists are still working out the little problems, but if they are perfected, they could be amazing.

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How To Light A Bulb With A Potato

By: Susana Turcios Amaya, Journalist

The science behind the fact a potato can light up a bulb is that the potato has electrolytes (water and salt) and when connected to zinc or copper it makes a chemical reaction. It then produces electricity.

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The Promise of Sustainable Energy

By: Christian Jeon, Journalist

As the world continues to grapple with the effects of climate change, the need for sustainable energy solutions has never been greater.

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How Nuclear Power Can Reach Climate Goals

By: Olivia Rose, Journalist

Some struggles that have striked the nuclear power industry are radioactive waste, high financial cost, and regulatory requirements. As well as heavy competition with renewable energy, these challenges have stopped the nuclear power industry from taking over the kind of power people use.

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The Hoover Dam: an engineering masterpiece

By: Ebenezer Gudissa, Journalist

The Hoover Dam was the highest dam in the world when it was completed in 1935. Its base is as thick as two football fields are long. Each spillway, designed to let floodwaters pass without harming the dam itself, can handle the volume of water that flows over Niagara Falls

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How A New Sodium Battery Could Power The Future

By: August Bhatt, Journalist

An amazing new battery and the green future it could bring.

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All About Wire

By: Javier Torrico, Journalist

Cables are so common in our lives that we don't always think about them.

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The Electromagnetic Field

By: Ebenezer Gudissa, Journalist

Electromagnetic Fields are all around us, even if we can't see them. Electromagnetic fields can be found in many different places, For example, the electric power that we use in our homes is generated by large electromagnetic fields created by spinning turbines.

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Perpetual Motion Machines and Thermodynamics

By: Liam Eckerman, Journalist

Every perpetual motion machine violates one or more of the laws of thermodynamics.

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