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20 six-headed cranes lifting 35-ton bricks could provide enough power for 40,000 households over a 24 hour period.

Here’s how to store wind and solar energy using just gravity

Shifting Bricks

Swiss startup Energy Vault wants to overcome the limitations of lithium-ion batteries by storing wind and solar energy by stacking massive brick towers.

Here’s How to Store Wind and Solar Energy Using Just Gravity

This startup wants to store green energy by stacking giant blocks.

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Is solar worth it in 2020? This free cost benefit estimator has answers.

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Solar prices are at record lows. But is it right for your home?

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The federal tax credit for solar power is being phased out starting next year.

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"Can you imagine how much sweet, sweet cabbage you'll be piling up if you could invent a cleaner energy source?"

Bill Nye: green energy will make you "filthy $@!% rich"

Bill Nye the Swearing Guy

In an advertisement for Google Chromebooks, Bill Nye argues that investing in green energy will make you "filthy $@!% rich."

Bill Nye: Green Energy Will Make You “Filthy $@!% Rich”

"So go green and get green. See what I'm saying?"

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Communities lacking electricity are forced to rely on dangerous fuels that can result in pollution and even cause premature death. The Global Maker Challenge received over a thousand submissions from innovators with potential solutions to help these communities.

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Communities lacking electricity are forced to rely on dangerous fuels that can result in pollution and even cause premature death.

2.6 Billion People Lack Access to Electricity. The World Needs Sustainable Energy Now.

How we feel about technology is often as important to its adoption as anything intrinsic about it.

Nuclear power used to seem like the future. Now its fate in the US is in question.

If we still need nuclear plants as a stopgap to moving away from fossil fuels, fine. But overall, atomic power no longer feels like the future.

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