Wind, solar, geothermal, hydro, wave power… Sustainable resources are an essential pillar of any strategy to decarbonize the planet's power generation sectors and eradicate fossil fuel usage. However, for several factors – intermittency, location dependence, land needs, and others – they can not accomplish it independently.A scalable form of zero-emissions energy that can reliably...
A researcher at a South Korean university, UNIST (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology), has developed a toilet that turns human feces into energy. As a bonus incentive, it provides a small amount of digital currency to be exchanged for a cup of noodles or coffee on campus.How the "generator" that produces energy...
China has reached a new milestone in humanity's experiments to control the power of the stars.In May, the Chinese Academy of Sciences' fusion machine reached 120 million degrees Celsius and remained at that temperature for 101 seconds.The last time the EAST (Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak or HT-7U) withstood a plasma vortex for so long...
Biotechnology is the combination of engineering and innovation to the life sciences.Biotechnologists frequently utilize bacteria or biological compounds to carry out particular processes or for production. Examples consist of the production of drugs, hormones, foods and converting waste products.There are many sub-branches associated with the biotech industry. A few of the more typical branches...
