{"id":198401,"date":"2024-10-28T10:22:57","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T15:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/scientists-create-revolutionary-tool-to-help-power-over-20-million-homes-developers-can-spend-more-of-their-time-building-better-devices"},"modified":"2024-10-28T10:22:57","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T15:22:57","slug":"scientists-create-revolutionary-tool-to-help-power-over-20-million-homes-developers-can-spend-more-of-their-time-building-better-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/scientists-create-revolutionary-tool-to-help-power-over-20-million-homes-developers-can-spend-more-of-their-time-building-better-devices","title":{"rendered":"Scientists create revolutionary tool to help power over 20 million homes: \u2018Developers can spend more of their time building better devices\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/epxMcCshU3s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>While wind and solar energy are the two most viable clean alternatives to the dirty energy sources that power most of our society, the energy that can be harvested from ocean waves also has a lot of potential as an infinitely renewable source.<\/p>\n<p>However, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecooldown.com\/green-tech\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"71\" title=\"Green tech\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a> is still developing, and a new research tool may play a big part in helping it get there, <a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/energy\/toolkit-marine-renewable-energy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Interesting Engineering reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The new device, the marine and hydrokinetic toolkit, was developed jointly by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and Sandia National Laboratories. It offers validation and standardized analysis tools to help researchers figure out whether their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecooldown.com\/green-business\/wave-power-technology-15-megawatt-hours\/\">wave energy-gathering<\/a> technologies are going to be viable without forcing them to undergo expensive and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecooldown.com\/green-tech\/wave-energy-harvesting-device-liquid-solid-trioboelectric-nanogenerator\/\">difficult real-world testing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While wind and solar energy are the two most viable clean alternatives to the dirty energy sources that power most of our society, the energy that can be harvested from ocean waves also has a lot of potential as an infinitely renewable source. However, the technology is still developing, and a new research tool may [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}