The two biggest challenges that face us when it comes to energy are, well, generating energy and then figuring out some way to store it. You see, non-renewable sources of energy like coal or gasoline ...
Engineers are turning to a chemistry that ancient Romans perfected two millennia ago to build thermal batteries capable of storing cheap, abundant heat for industrial use. By exploiting the reversible ...
Imagine your building not just protecting you from the elements, but also storing electricity. MIT researchers just gave that idea a major push with a new version of "electron-conducting carbon ...