Cities & Planning

As part of a city-wide urban greening program, Taipei turned an abandoned football stadium into a community garden. Here’s an overview of the terraced garden that’s taken over Zhongshan Soccer Stadium from James Stewart on Instagram. A coupl

This story was originally published by Inside Climate News. It is unusual to have a utility-scale solar array in Kentucky, and even more unusual that the

A British startup claims to have a carbon capture technique that sucks up most of a ship’s emissions. The challenge is scaling it

"It's fantastic because it's eco-friendly...We're not burning any gases," says Terrence Bridges.

The herbivore’s return to Yellowstone national park is restoring ancient patterns and reshaping the landscape from the ground up

I sit at the lunch table knowing my food is getting cold, too busy writing to eat. My two table mates are eager to tell me their stories. They are both

Native chefs are redefining their foodways, blending pre- and post-Colonial ingredients into a cuisine that’s as innovative as it is ancestral.

This article is co-authored by Joost Jongerden & Necmettin Türk How a grassroots revolution in northern Syria is redefining democracy, ecology, and decolonization from the ground up. When the Syrian civil war fractured the authority of the central state, a new kind of revolution took root in the country’s north. In the Kurdish-majority regions known […]

Major battery breakthroughs seemingly happen every day, but only some of that tech ever leaves the lab. WIRED breaks down what’s actually going to change EVs and what’s just a dream.

Australia has so much rooftop solar power that some states are offering free electricity during peak hours: TechCrunch: For years, Australians have been been installing solar panels at a rapid clip. Now that investment is paying off. The Australian government announced this week that electricity customers in three states will get free electricity for up […]

Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.

Economists have this idea that we live in an efficient market, but it’s hard to fathom that when disposable vapes are equipped with rechargeable lithium cells. Still, just as market economist…

A groundbreaking report from Washington State University (WSU) researchers suggests that integrating solar power with agricultural practices, known as "agrivolt

Starting this month, parking lots in South Korea with more than 80 spaces will be required to install solar canopies and carports.

With the completion of the open source Seed Eco-Home, and the final step of selling the house on the open market – we can now offer a number of ways that you can build or acquire a Seed Eco-Home. But let’s talk about solving housing first. The problem is an under-supply of housing. This is […]

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These days just about any battery storage solution connected to PV solar or similar uses LiFePO4 (LFP) batteries. The reason for this is obvious: they got a very practical charge and discharge curv…

The Volts podcast continues to be my favorite listen. Climate change will wreak ever more havoc on the world, that’s just baked in. But the transition to clean energy is also now baked in. Da…

Once considered the domain of urban tech hubs and university labs, makerspaces have quietly found fertile ground in rural communities. These collaborative

When the Channel Tunnel opened in 1994, the undersea rail link saw Britain grew closer to the European mainland than ever before. However, had things gone a little differently, history might have t…

In rural communities across the country, stacked challenges like housing costs, childcare gaps, and limited transit keep people on the sidelines of

Every now and then in histories of the 20th’s century’s earlier years, you will see pictures of cars and commercial vehicles equipped with bulky drums, contraptions to make their fuel f…

The Stirling engine is an alternative solution to produce cleaner energy in order to achieve the reduction of the fossil fuel consumption and the CO2 emissions. It comprises an external combustion engine that can convert any external heat source into mechanical power, through cyclic expansion and compression of a working gas in a closed-regenerative cycle, with or without driving mechanisms. The free-piston Stirling Engine is significantly preferred because of the absence of any mechanical linkage resulting in longer operating life, lower noise pollution, maintenance and vibration free, self-starting and high thermal efficiency. The aim of this paper is to summarize the research works on the free-piston Stirling engine technologies and models. First, the working principles of the free-piston Stirling engine are described, identifying different configurations. Then, several applications are presented. Finally, a detailed review of the models available in literature is given, pointing out the main assumptions and equations.

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MIT spinout Electrified Thermal Solutions developed an electrically conductive firebrick that can store heat for hours and discharge it by heating air or gas to temperatures high enough to power the most demanding industrial applications. The bricks could help hard-to-decarbonize sectors utilize renewable energy for the first time.

Restarting one of America's great factories via insane projects and products.

On Friday, the Jura-based company Panatere inaugurated the world's first two solar furnaces in La Chaux-de-Fonds NE that will produce completely recycled steel. The company calls it a project of "true circular sustainability".

A revolutionary battery technology is on the horizon, poised to disrupt the industry. But what is it and how will it change the game?

# The Seattle City Council added a series of series of height and density bonuses for stacked flats as they amended Mayor Bruce Harrell's proposed update to the City's Comprehensive Plan in September. The bonuses could unleash the city's former single family zones to create a stacked flat multiplex boom, ranging up to 12-plexes.