Paper made from grass and weeds. Make those lawns useful. đ
Write off paper made from trees for good! This super sustainable alternative grows like a weed.
Critics of renewable energy often cite two reasons for why they think a transition from fossil fuels will take half a century. Firstly, that sources of renewable energy are too intermittent to be reliable and secondly, that governments cannot bear the costs of switching entire economies to clean energy.
Bitcoin mining is mainly driven by renewable energy â hydro (by far the largest component), solar, wind and geothermal. Period.
In fact, weâve estimated the lower bound of renewables penetration in the bitcoin mining energy mix to be 77.6%.
From 2018, but itâs likely gotten better since then.
Addressing the dangers of lazy crypto industry research, and aiming to debunk the negative narrative that bitcoin detractors are attempting to create.
The unit has yet to actually send power directly back to Earth, but that technology has already been proven. If the project develops into huge kilometers-wide space solar antennae, it could beam microwaves that would then be converted into fuel-free electricity to any part of the planet at a momentâs notice.
Scientists working for the Pentagon have successfully tested a solar panel the size of a pizza box in space, designed as a prototype for a future system to send electricity from space back to any point on Earth.