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Eco-friendly aluminum battery lasts 10,000 cycles with minimal loss

TechXplore

Large batteries for long-term storage of solar and wind power are key to integrating abundant and renewable energy sources into the U.S. power grid. However, there is a lack of safe and reliable battery technologies to support the push toward sustainable, clean energy.

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Rooftop wind power might take off using a key principle of flight

GreenBiz

A new device could open more areas to wind production by using stationary airfoils instead of twirling turbines.

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Wind-powered lamp post helps reduce light pollution

Inhabitat - Innovation

Tobias Trübenbacher, a design student from Berlin, has created a wind-powered lamp post that uses an integrated wind rotor to generate energy and a motion detection system to create an insect-friendly light spectrum.

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Europe’s largest battery powers up in Blackhillock, in Moray

Envirotec Magazine

Deliberately located between Inverness and Aberdeen to address grid congestion from Viking (443 MW), Moray East (950 MW) and Beatrice (588 MW) offshore wind farms, the project is said to significantly reduce the amount of wasted clean energy and is an important milestone to achieving the UK governments mission to have a net zero power grid by 2030.

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Europe and Ireland take up large-scale wind power as energy costs soar

GreenBiz

Russia’s war in Ukraine has supercharged the move to wind and solar energy in Ireland and Europe.

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Cryptographic protocol enables secure data sharing in floating wind energy sector

TechXplore

Floating wind power offers enormous potential for deepwater offshore energy development. However, the management and secure exchange of data between stakeholders represents a key challenge for its evolution.

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Rising carbon emissions may lead to decreased wind power potential in autumn in South Korea

TechXplore

As the world grapples with the effects of climate change, a recent study has shed light on the potential impacts of climate warming in East Asia on the regional future wind power potential (Wpot).