Using solar panels without backup infrastructure makes renewable energy production much more affordable, efficient and sustainable.
To improve energy security, we need to make infrastructures less reliable.
Compressed air energy storage is a sustainable and resilient alternative to chemical batteries, with much longer life expectancy, lower life cycle costs, technical simplicity, and low maintenance.
Researchers have calculated minimum levels of energy use needed to live a decent life, but what about maximum levels?
Adjusting energy demand to supply would make switching to renewable energy much more realistic than it is today.
Matching supply to demand at all times makes renewable power production a complex, slow, expensive and unsustainable undertaking.
Solar panels on window sills and balconies can supply more power than you would think.