The Elithis Tower, its builder says, is an office building like no other, an oval-shaped showcase for how to help save the planet on a reasonable budget.
Very Promising! Zinc-Air Battery Could Hold 300% More Energy Than Lithium-Ion
Not quite as impressive on paper as the lithium-air battery we wrote about (which claimed 10x more energy storage than regular lithium-ion), but it might turn out to be easier to take out of the lab and bring to market. ReVolt Technology, a company based in Staefa, Switzerland, claims that its Zinc-air battery can "store three times the energy of lithium ion batteries, by volume, while costing only half as much."Microgrids: $2.1B Market by 2015
The idea behind microgrids – islands of renewable power generation, energy storage, building control systems, and a localized electricity distribution grid that can manage it all, whether connected to the grid at large or not.
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