Category: energy
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Generating electricity from rainwater
Plug Flow: Generating Renewable Electricity with Water from Nature by Breaking the Limit of Debye Length | ACS Central Science This is perhaps the most fun paper I have read for years. The best thing about it is that this ground breaking research can be reproduced in any 6th Form physics lab. The experiments are…
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Home battery packs now make sense
Here is a great video from EVM about how you can use home battery packs (“powerwalls”) to shift the cost of electricity from expensive daytime to cheaper night-time rates. I have blogged before about how the case for solar panels on domestic roofs is marginal or negative but I think this solution will almost certainly…
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The London Mayor’s Solar Together “Scam”
Solar Together is a group buying project that helps householders purchase solar panels for their roofs. It is actually a very sensible scheme and well executed. Householders can be confident that they will get a good price and that their house will not burn down due to shoddy work. So why do I say it…
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“Black Start”
The first 10 years of my professional life were as a nuclear fusion physicist and I hoped to save the world by developing civilian nuclear fusion. I retain a strong interest in the energy industry. The Renewable Energy World website gives a fascinating insight into a wide range of technologies. Today I read about ‘black…
Dr James Bayley 