The Smart Grid would be able to draw energy from renewable resources to existing power grids. It would also be able to control the flow of energy between power grids as not just going from the plant to your home, but instead back and forth through power lines like a highway.
Microbes are microbial fuel cells to treat waste and purify water. Video explains how this bacteria can both purify waste water and create renewable energy.
Young engineer takes on a global challenge: Clean and sustainable energy, one village at a time.
Coal and Mountaintop Removal
(This is the three minute preview. See full, 20 minute version on Yale’s website here.) Since the mid 1990s, the coal industry has used mountaintop removal farming to extract coal. This has destroyed over one million acres of Appalachian forest and buried nearly 2,000 miles of streams.
