This list of Green Energy or Environmentally Friendly stories is only because I think the TPV is a huge revelation and I wanted to post these links quickly. The other stories just continue to show the technological progress being made. Nuclear batteries is not a new idea, but this is the first story I've seen which shows they can and are being made. They aren't for all applications, but there are more and more situations requiring low energy, so they should be very valuable. Technologies to help us clean up waste from the older generation of high-quality lifestyles is just a plus.
The reason the TPV is such a big story is that in the past, even up to today, we have relied on energy from burnable sources (peat, coal, oil, natural gas) and nuclear fuels which all create heat and use that to spin a turbine that generates electricity. We haven't fully utilized the potential of the photoelectric effect to turn sunlight directly into energy. So, having centuries of experience with heat and having some new technologies to collect heat from sunlight, it has always been frustrating to not have a good way to turn heat into electricity. Like light to electricity, it is a major source which does not involve burning carbon-based fuels. NOW, we have a technology, the TPV, which can convert heat to electricity as efficiently as heat from burnt fuels heats gases, expands them, and spins a turbine. That's news!!!
Heat-driven photovoltaic device hits 40 percent efficiency | Ars Technica
This new device gets us closer to a decarbonized grid
Scientists Turn Nuclear Waste Into Diamond Batteries That Could Last For Thousands Of Years
A simple chemical twist turns plastic waste into a carbon-soaking sponge
March 29 marked the first time wind surpassed coal, nuclear power in lower 48
In a First, Wind Generation Tops Coal and Nuclear Power for a Day - Scientific American
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