While it’s hard to compete with solar and wind on cost and scale, there are plenty of stranger sources of electricity we could be tapping into, from trains, to sand, to power from urine.
In this episode of Huh? Science Explained, science journalist Petra Stock takes a tour of some of out of the box ideas that exist for generating, and storing, energy.
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Originally published by Cosmos as Strange powers: Weird ways of generating and storing electricity
Petra Stock
Petra Stock is a journalist and engineer. She has previously worked in climate change, renewable energy, environmental planning and Aboriginal heritage policy.
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