The $Billions We’re Burying in Plain Sight
There's $67 billion in critical minerals sitting in your trash can right now. Old laptops, dead drills, that printer you keep meaning to ...
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Energy Storage
How This Heat Pump Water Heater is Also a Battery
How This Heat Pump Water Heater is Also a Battery. Go to https://ground.news/undecided for an innovative way to stay fully informed on tech, ...
Misc
How Ocean Plastic Isn’t The Problem
Author: Heather Hunsperger Coauthor: Matt Ferrell Video Editor: Sunny Natividad I was a teenager on a cruise when I first saw ocean pollution ...
Energy Production
Why China’s Supercritical CO₂ Turbine Matters
Coauthor: Matt Ferrell Video Editor: Sunny Natividad For over 200 years, we’ve been generating electricity essentially the same way: by boiling water. And ...
Energy Production
The National Grid Is Dead. Here’s What Replaces It.
Author: Vincent M. Coauthor: Matt Ferrell Video Editor: Sunny Natividad In April 2025, most of Spain and Portugal went dark. A cascading failure ...
Misc
Why This Vertical Farm is 500x More Efficient Than Farming
Coauthor: Matt Ferrell Video Editor: Sunny Natividad This is Vertical Harvest. Sitting on half an acre of land, it produces as much food ...
Smart Home
What I Got Wrong Building My Net Zero Home
Coauthor: Matt Ferrell Video Editor: Sunny Natividad I have some regrets. A few years ago, I set out to build my dream net ...
Energy Storage
The Mystery Behind Donut Lab’s “Impossible” Battery
Author: Heather Hunsperger Coauthor: Matt Ferrell Video Editor: Sunny Natividad Ever since Donut Lab announced their miracle solid-state battery, the internet has been ...
Energy Production
Why Waiting for Perovskite Solar Isn’t Worth It (Solar 3.0)
Author: Jon Okun Coauthor: Matt Ferrell Video Editor: Sunny Natividad Perovskite solar cells could hit 35% efficiency and cost half as much as ...
Smart Home
Geothermal vs Air Source Heat Pump: Which is Worth It?
Coauthor: Matt Ferrell Video Editor: Sunny Natividad What if the most efficient way to heat and cool your home…might not actually be the ...
Energy Storage
How 40-Ton Spinning Wheels Are Saving the Power Grid
Author: Jon Okun Coauthor: Matt Ferrell Video Editor: Sunny Natividad When Spain’s power grid failed on April 28th, 2025, it quickly became a ...
