What if we had more control over how we store energy? This simple question could open up a whole world of green possibilities and allow us to divest from higher pollutant energy sources like fossil fuels.
Argonne National Laboratory is reworking the battery from the ground up, to try to find a new way to store energy by using a particle accelerator to hack ... Show More
May 2024
Hard Reset Podcast: Strong Water | Episode #14
It seems like our world is constantly on fire. If you live in California, Oregon, Washington, Canada, Australia, or anywhere else on the globe that’s regularly choked by wildfires, you’re all-too-aware of the importance of effective firefighting strategies. Dry brush, unattended ... Show More
31m 43s
Apr 2024
Hard Reset Podcast: Robot Recycling | Episode #13
An estimated 32% of the recycling we send off to sorting centers actually gets recycled. Why is this? The nature of sorting recycling by hand is time consuming, messy, and dangerous, and the human error involved in this process is enormous. Enter AMP Robotics, a Denver-based comp ... Show More
39m 40s
Feb 2024
Hard Reset Podcast: Wildfires | Episode #12
Wildfires have been growing in severity and intensity since the 1980’s. As climate change encourages hotter, drier seasons, fire is able to catch and spread rapidly, destroying the homes and ecosystems in its path. To fight these megafires, fire scientists, machine learning exper ... Show More
49m 16s
Jan 2024
The powerful possibilities of recycling the world's batteries | Emma Nehrenheim
The world has plenty of clean energy. The problem is storing that energy and getting it where we need it, when we need it, says battery recycling pioneer Emma Nehrenheim. While batteries are fundamental to powering a sustainable future, their production is surprisingly harsh on t ... Show More
12m 36s
Jul 2013
Supercapacitors, Ionic Liquids, and Implications for Sustainable Energy
From smart phones to electric cars, batteries and energy storage devices are vital. Dr Nico Cousens is studying ionic liquid supercapacitors - a next generation technology with the potential to transform energy storage and power the cars of the future.
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