Heat batteries quietly solve a major transition gap, storing surplus renewable electricity as heat.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ian writes on fossil energies, climate, and transition to renewables. This article is more than 2 years old. Hydrogen-gasoline ...

Touch the back of a laptop and it often feels warm. This is because part of the energy used for computation and communication ...

According to a study published in Advanced Materials, University of Washington (UW) researchers have developed a flexible, durable electronic prototype that can harvest energy from body heat and ...

A new heat-to-energy converter has reached a record efficiency of 44% – the average steam turbine manages about 35%, for comparison. This thermophotovoltaic cell is a major step on the way to ...

Instead of towering smokestacks, the GreenLab industrial park in Skive, Denmark, is surrounded by wind turbines and a solar array that power its resident companies with renewable energy. "Everything ...

This paper is the first direct demonstration of the transverse thermoelectric generation in WSi 2, and the results could pave the way for more efficient thermoelectric devices. Thermoelectric ...

Internal combustion engines have long received flack for how wasteful they are. And while you can't argue about how inefficient they may be, the truth is that internal combustion has led the way for ...

Antora Energy, a Bill Gates-backed startup with a bold pitch to use blocks of solid graphite to make heat-storing batteries, announced today that it will be opening its first factory in San Jose, ...

A research team led by Professor Toshimasa Fujisawa of the Institute of Science Tokyo (Science Tokyo) has now created a small energy-harvesting device that uses a naturally occurring non-thermal state ...