The World Is Our Battery
Batteries don’t have to be small or even portable. Here are five ambitious technologies that store energy in the rocks, water, and air all around us.
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Emily Underwood
Emily Underwood is a contributing correspondent for Science and a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in The Washington Post, Smithsonian, Science News, High Country News, Knowable, and other outlets. I also write for the American Geophysical Union magazine Eos, and the delightful science writing blog The Last Word on Nothing.
Jul 2020 8
The race is on to build an AC unit that doesn’t cook the planet
There’s a $1 million prize for anyone that can design a room air conditioner that costs no more than twice what a standard one costs and produces five times less greenhouse gas
