📑 Energy
These floor tiles can generate electricity from people’s steps
By acting like touchpads, they also make energy visible making them look cool in nightclubs...
This city uses IoT to detect open windows and clogged gutters
Battery-powered sensors are placed in select places and connected to the city's network to provide timely information
Novel tech can turn sewage into biogas
A new method could help communities lower their waste treatment costs while helping the environment
This company’s solar roof has the potential to power mass adoption of clean energy
Their roof system directly integrates solar technology into traditional roofing processes and materials...
A pilot project allows city residents to control their street lighting
The idea is not only inclusive but also helps save money and protects the climate...
A company offers affordable geothermal heating and cooling
What has started in the Google X laboratory and incubator now has more than a thousand geothermal installations across the U.S.
New wind system enables efficient rooftop options to generate renewable energy
Patented motionless wind harvesting system generates up to 50% more energy at the same cost as rooftop solar PV
Transparent window coating could cool buildings without energy
The technology could help save a ton of energy for cooling, which is estimated to account for about 15% of global energy consumption
A project to recharge electric vehicles with energy recovered from the metro
The pilot at a single metro station consists of nine modular cabinets enabling personal mobility vehicles to be recharged