This battery can power your entire home with renewable energy for a decade
Researchers from Harvard University have developed a renewable battery that has an incredible 10-year lifespan. With such a battery, you could become independent of the grid and power your entire home with renewable energy using the same battery for a decade. Unlike other flow batteries, this Read More...
Researchers found a way to keep buildings cool without air-conditioners
Air-conditioning systems gobble up about 6 percent of the electricity generated in America, raising emissions of greenhouse gasses in the form of carbon dioxide from burning power-station fuel. Not only that, but the refrigerants used in air-conditioning systems are also detrimental to the Earth. Read More...
Massive universal basic income trial set to rollout in Kenya
Despite trials in the 1960s and 1970s in the US, Canada, and India, we still don’t know if universal basic income reduces poverty while enhancing quality of life. In the coming years we may find out as a universal basic income program is set to begin in Kenya. The program, called GiveDirectly, Read More...
Dogs will like you better if you’re nice to people, study says
If your dog gives you a lot of love, its probably because you’re a good person to the people around you. According to a new study from researchers at Kyoto University, both dogs and monkeys track how humans behave with one another and show more fondness for people who help other people than they Read More...
Switzerland votes to relax immigration rules in defiance of anti-Muslim rhetoric
Early returns show Swiss voters want to make it easier for "third-generation" foreigners to get Swiss citizenship. Swiss broadcaster SRF said Sunday's projections showed that the "simplified naturalisation of third-generation immigrants" measure passed in a national referendum. It will Read More...
More than 200 whales swim away after New Zealand stranding
Whale lovers in New Zealand finally got some good news on Sunday after more than 200 stranded whales managed to refloat themselves overnight and swim away, while volunteers managed to save another 17 whales at high tide. More than 650 Read More...
Want to help fight legal battles? There’s a crowdfunding site for that
When online crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter and GoFundMe debuted, people hoping to invent and sell a better bottle opener, those in need of help with medical bills and all sorts of personal would-be fundraisers talked about the concept in grand, world-changing ways. This, they said, was a Read More...
Microfibers are polluting our food chain. This laundry bag can stop that
For the past three years, Alexander Nolte and Oliver Spies, surfing buddies and co-owners of Langbrett, a German retailer with four stores that sells surf gear and outdoor apparel, have been haunted by news reports connecting many of the products they sell to an emerging but serious environmental Read More...
UK offshore wind 'will lower energy bills' more than nuclear
Offshore windfarms could provide cheaper power than Britain’s new wave of nuclear power stations, a leading figure in the wind industry has claimed. Speaking to the Guardian, Hugh McNeal, the chief executive of trade body RenewableUK, said he expected that offshore windfarms would secure a deal Read More...
Big energy hugely underestimates electric cars, renewable power
Mass adoption of electric cars and renewable energy could significantly decrease global consumption of fossil fuels. But does the established energy industry view these new developments as a threat? In a recent report, ExxonMobil said coal could continue to provide the majority of the world's Read More...