Science Principles of Energy Tech

At the port of Yokohama, a vessel the length of two football fields sits at a demonstration berth. This is the Suiso Frontier, the world’s first purpose-built liquid hydrogen carrier, developed as part of Japan’s Hydrogen Energy Supply Chain project. A technician connects a hose from a cryogenic tank, liquid hydrogen flows into the ship’s…

The Gansu Wind Farm in northwestern China stretches across more than 100 kilometers of desert plateau. On a clear afternoon, the wind comes off the Gobi at a steady 9 to 11 meters per second, and several thousand turbines turn in near-perfect unison. The combined output of this single installation can exceed 20,000 megawatts under…

What if the key to a sustainable future lies beneath our feet? Geothermal energy uses the Earth’s natural heat. It’s a great alternative to fossil fuels and a key renewable energy source. By using this energy, we can cut down on greenhouse gas emissions and meet our energy needs. In this article, we’ll dive into…

Somewhere off the coast of Denmark, a bright orange buoy bobs in the North Sea. It looks unremarkable – a navigation marker, maybe, or a weather float. But inside its sealed housing, a laser is firing invisible pulses of infrared light straight up into the sky, 10,000 times per second. Each pulse travels upward, scatters…

Imagine a floor tile that generates electricity with every footstep. Not through solar panels. Not through heat. Just through the simple, ordinary pressure of a shoe sole hitting the ground. The tile contains no moving parts, no fuel, no wires running to a power station. It contains a crystal. And that crystal, when squeezed, does…

Stand in sunlight for a moment and you can feel energy arriving on your skin. That same energy, when it strikes a thin slice of specially prepared silicon, can push electrons out of their resting positions and send them through a wire. The result is electricity generated from light with no moving parts, no combustion,…