Physics World Focus on Energy Technologies 2018
While the supply of renewable energy from wind and sunlight has grown tremendously, questions remain about how to keep the lights on and vehicles moving at times when the Sun doesn’t shine and the wind doesn’t blow. The articles in this Physics World Focus illustrate a few ways that scientists in industrial and applied research are addressing this great green-energy challenge. Examples include energy storage, improved generation technologies and materials research. None of these technologies is going to resolve the great green-energy challenge on its own, but these are some of the places we might start.
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