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Germany hit a new record in renewable energy generation on Sunday, May 8. On that sunny and windy day, at one o’clock in the afternoon, Germany generated 87% of electricity from renewable sources, 55 GW of the 63 GW consumed in the country. As a consequence, the price of electricity became negative for several hours,

Opensource technology for global reforestation. A technology that wants to help combat the climate crisis by planting trees. One of the ways to fight climate change and help our ecosystems is reforestation. To accelerate this process, Dronecoria is born; a suite of open source tools for low-cost, large-scale reforestation. The system includes everything you need,

A team from the University of Michigan is working to develop a solar window with 15% efficiency, allowing 50% of the light to pass through. It has received $1.3 million from the Department of Energy’s Office of Solar Energy Technologies to further develop the idea. Last year, a team from the University of Michigan published

Today we are going to do something that does not require electricity to function, although it will really seem otherwise. We are going to make Heron’s fountain using fairly common materials and in recycled cases. This is a very easy project to do and it would be ideal to do with the little ones in

Concerns about water scarcity are on the rise, companies are looking for more and more sophisticated ways to reduce water consumption. For the founder and CEO of Hydraloop, Arthur Valkieser, the answer was clear: to design a device to purify and reuse household water. Hydraloop is about the size of a refrigerator (actually flatter) and

Tired of accumulating used cooking oil? Well, from now on you can take advantage of it for cleaning thanks to SOUJI, a compound that, mixed with the filtered oil and stirred for a minute, turns it into a liquid detergent for washing clothes. The product not only prevents mismanagement of waste, but is much more

In 2040, 33 countries are expected to face extreme water stress, so the race to develop innovative solutions to produce drinking water is even more important. Ap Verheggen has been at the forefront of solar experiments for the past few years. His latest concept is WaterDrop, a portable solar powered device that produces water by

A 5-month-old dog, who fell on hot asphalt that spilled around a construction site in northern India, was finally miraculously saved in a 4-hour rescue operation. Another story that moved us and with a happy ending was that of this other dog who was found on the brink of death, his story will not leave

Shutterstock Image If cloudy days that threatened rain posed one of the biggest challenges to solar energy harvesting technology so far, a Chinese scientific team may have put an end to this problem. To do this, it has developed a new hybrid solar cell that not only captures energy from the sun, but also from

Lucas Davis, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley, wrote an article in which he claims that if your neighbor installs solar panels, it will cost him $65 a year on his electricity bill, but his calculations are wrong. Rather than costing you more, those panels are most likely saving Davis money. Solar