Constructed from cement, carbon black, and water, the device holds the potential to offer affordable and scalable energy storage for renewable energy sources. Two of humanity's most ubiquitous historical materials, cement and carbon black (which resembles very fine charcoal), may form the basis for

New Breakthrough in Energy Storage – MIT Engineers Create Supercapacitor out of Ancient Materials::Constructed from cement, carbon black, and water, the device holds the potential to offer affordable and scalable energy storage for renewable energy sources. Two of humanity’s most ubiquitous historical materials, cement and carbon black (which resembles very fine charcoal), may form the basis for

  • onlinepersona@programming.devEnglish
    3·
    9 months ago

    I’m surprised that per capita, the absolute worst is Qatar with 3x the consumption of the US. The average US citizen however consumes ~2x as much as a German, Japanese, Iranian, French or Irish citizen.

    https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/per-capita-energy-use?tab=table

    The data kinda seems off though. How is an Icelandic citizen using 3x as much as a US citizen? Did they completely get rid of fossil fuels or something?

    • deegeese@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      Qatar and Iceland are both rich nations in an inhospitable climate.

      Makes sense they’d be near the top in heating/cooling.