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Heating Silicon To Power Tomorrow’s Battery?

To compensate for the hazards of renewable energy production, new forms of electricity storage are necessary. Among some of the avenues explored: using electricity to heat materials, like silicon, to very high temperatures, and then, later, converting that heat to … electricity. 

Vertiports and the Future of Urban Air Mobility

From The Jetsons to Back to the Future to The Fifth Element, personal air mobility has been a recurring feature in popular culture’s image of what the future will look like. Now, it seems, we’re getting a bit closer on this front. 

Bogotá’s Race To Become Latin America’s Smartest Smart City

It would be a mistake to limit the term “smart city” to the widespread use of the latest technologies for services like security cameras and traffic lights. For experts, the concept goes further than that, integrating practices that may seemingly have nothing to do with technology, such as the idea of “smart citizens” which could have an impact on mobility, the environment and other factors.