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Energy innovators around the world plan to harvest more power from abandoned coal mines, but not by digging up dirty deposits. Instead, this concept utilizes gravity and renewable energy to transform ...

For the global energy transition to succeed, the energy storage industry will have to develop cheap, efficient, and reliable ways to store renewable energy. Lithium-ion batteries currently dominate ...

Swiss startup Energy Vault came out of stealth mode in 2018, and has been on an upward trajectory since then. The company created a system to store electricity by elevating concrete blocks, and ...

Gravity never goes away—and that’s a powerful tool in the world of renewable energy, often marred by the ebb and flow of wind, tide, and sunshine. And this gravity-based energy isn’t a concept for the ...

Kern County oil fields look more and more like a viable place for storing renewable energy to help balance the state power grid. Bakersfield startup Renewell Energy is working on its first commercial ...

Several new projects that aim to exploit the Earth’s gravity for power hint at how electric vehicles could unlock otherwise impossible ways of generating energy. They include trains across the ...

Scientists could be wrong about dark energy. But they’re right about gravity, a new study suggests. Dark energy, the mysterious phenomenon that causes the expansion of the cosmos to accelerate, is ...