I had my Tesla Powerwall installed near the end of 2020 and it’s been working well so far. The Tesla Gateway has been managing when and where my solar panel energy is directed and will keep me up and running during a blackout. It’s been great, but there’
As sea levels rise, more and more coastal areas are getting flooded worldwide. 800 million people from across 570 cities may have to relocate by 2050.1 But instead of relocating the people, what if we moved our cities instead? Someone is…floating…the idea of building an island city
The biggest roadblock to the widespread, mainstream adoption of electric vehicles is range. We’re typically seeing 300 miles or less for most EVs on the market, which is more than enough for daily driving, but still not enough to put range anxiety to rest. Because of a battery packs
Solar and wind power have proven themselves to be cost competitive alternatives to fossil fuels, but to be a truly effective power source alternative, energy storage is key. While lithium batteries opened up the incredible potential for many of the technologies we take for granted today, there still are some
When thinking about the sustainable cities of the future, we envision a grid of roads, vertical farms, and skyscrapers, but what if a different urban perspective was on the horizon? Saudi Arabia is planning to disrupt the vertical, and grid-like trend with “The Line,” the backbone of the Neom megalopoli.
Owning a home is an important life milestone for a lot of people, but the ever increasing cost of construction materials and affordable housing is a major roadblock. And on top of that, traditional construction methods and materials cause a surprising amount of gas emissions and waste. But there are
Plastic changed the course of manufacturing forever, but a lot of that came at a cost that’s plaguing us now. About 91% of plastic isn’t recycled and we consume about 5 grams of micro plastic waste in our food every week.1 2 But there’s a possible
Ocean currents and tides are an enormous amount of renewable energy just waiting to be harvested. With tidal power we don’t have to rely on building massive dams and waterways that disrupt the environment in order to capture that power. Even though visions of underwater bladed turbines might pop
Rare-earth metals and other minerals are essential for green tech like EVs and renewable energy. Trouble is, we need a lot of them and their availability on Earth is limited. But what if we could tap into all the materials flying around in space? Some scientists claim we could mine
We’ve all seen the massive damns and aqueducts that provide power to cities around the world, but there’s an untapped potential beneath our cities. Gallons of high-pressure water flowing through our water pipe infrastructure every day; wasted energy dissipating through pressure-reducing valves and canal drops. It’s possible
Between our obsession with mobile electronics and the growing popularity of electric vehicles, lithium ion battery demand is growing at an astonishing rate. Most of that demand is being driven by automotive sales which consume 60% of lithium ion batteries, even though they only account for about 1% of automotive
Wind power is one of the fastest-growing renewable sources that works well at scale, but it isn’t perfect. A wind turbine’s massive size and moving parts make them challenging to roll out because of the space they take up, as well as maintenance. But what if we could