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  • How Deep Sea Water is Now Drinkable
    May 13 2025

    How Deep Sea Water is Now Drinkable. Take your personal data back with Incogni! Use code UNDECIDED at the link below and get 60% off an annual plan: http://incogni.com/undecided Freshwater may soon flow from the deep sea to drought-stricken coastal cities. A handful of companies are betting that crushing deep sea pressures can replace the energy-hungry pumps and toxic chemicals that are an inconvenient truth of desalination. By going the extra quarter-mile into the ocean, they’re pioneering a way to turn saltwater into freshwater — slashing costs, curbing pollution, and reducing environmental harm in the process. How on earth…or, under earth…does this work? And could it solve our global water crisis?

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    Chapters

    00:00 - Intro

    02:33 - Saltwater, Hold the Salt

    06:01 - Deep-Sea Reverse Osmosis

    12:22 - A Race to the Bottom

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    13 mins
  • How Waves Could Quietly Overtake Solar & Wind
    May 6 2025

    How Waves Could Quietly Overtake Solar & Wind. Go to https://ground.news/undecided for an innovative way to stay fully informed on tech, energy, the climate and more. Save 40% on the Ground News unlimited access Vantage plan with my link. Every crashing wave delivers a pulse of power. Add them all up, and the ocean carries more energy than the roughly 30,000 TWh of electricity generated globally in 2023. But for decades, wave power has been a sea of broken dreams. But in 2023, buoys from a Swedish company called CorPower survived record-breaking 60-foot waves — and kept sending clean power to the grid. With costs plunging and the first full wave farms on the horizon, a decades-old dream might finally be about to break through. So the question is: Is wave energy finally ready for prime time — or will it be just another shipwreck in the history of clean power?

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    16 mins
  • How Structural Batteries Just Got 10X Better
    Apr 22 2025

    How Structural Batteries Just Got 10X Better. Use code UNDECIDED for 50% off your first order of Sundays for Dogs: https://sundaysfordogs.com/UNDECIDED When is a battery more than just a battery? That’s not a riddle. A battery is more than a battery when it’s also a wall… or a floor, or even part of your car, or a plane. But what if that same battery could cut a laptop’s weight in half or slim your phone down to the thickness of a credit card? That’s the mind-bending potential of structural batteries, which combine energy storage and structural support into a single material. It’s a wild idea that could reshape how we build electronics, vehicles, and even aircraft — if we can make it work. Designing something that satisfies the needs of a structure and a battery is not easy. Is the juice worth the squeeze?

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    Chapters

    00:00 - Intro

    01:20 - What is a Structural Battery?

    02:19 - The Problem

    05:40 - The New Advances

    10:13 - The Outlook

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    13 mins
  • How Magnetic Cooling Is Breaking All the Rules
    Apr 15 2025

    How Magnetic Cooling Is Breaking All the Rules. Take your personal data back with Incogni! Use code UNDECIDED at the link below and get 60% off an annual plan: https://incogni.com/undecided What if I told you your fridge could be cooled without gas, without chemicals … just magnets? It not only promises higher efficiency, but solves a critical problem with the status quo…yes, a critical problem that plagues even my beloved heat pumps. The thing is, we need an alternative to refrigerants. Caloric cooling is one alternative, and one U.S. research team claims that magnetocalorics in particular are already on their way to replacing our current coolants with systems that are much more attractive. But how do you control the temperature with a solid material rather than a refrigerant gas? What makes magnetocalorics stand out? And is this cooling tech solid enough to redefine what it means to be a “fridge magnet”?

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    15 mins
  • Why the Biggest Battery Company is Betting Against Lithium
    Apr 8 2025

    Why the Biggest Battery Company is Betting Against Lithium. Go to https://surfshark.com/undecided or use code UNDECIDED at checkout to get 4 extra months of Surfshark VPN! Sodium-ion battery technology isn’t exactly new, but something interesting is happening. CATL, the world’s biggest lithium battery manufacturer, says that up to half the market could switch to sodium. That’s right—the biggest name in lithium batteries is betting against lithium. Looks like lithium might need to recharge its reputation. After all, sodium-ion batteries are nearly as good lithium, and salt is much cheaper and easier to access than lithium. So maybe its not surprising that CATL and some other companies are getting ready to manufacture huge numbers of them in preparation for what could be a massive market shift. But is sodium really the future of energy storage, or is it just another battery technology destined to live in lithium-ion's shadow?

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    Chapters

    00:00 - Intro

    00:46 - CATL Tease

    02:08 - Sodium-Ion Pros

    05:21 - BYD and China

    07:09 - Natron

    08:21 - Dincă Group

    10:44 - Northvolt

    12:01 - Lingering Issues

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    14 mins
  • How This Battery Runs on Sugar… Seriously
    Apr 1 2025

    How This Battery Runs on Sugar… Seriously. Go to https://ground.news/undecided for an innovative way to stay fully informed on tech, energy, the climate and more. Save 40% on the Ground News unlimited access Vantage plan with my link. You’ve heard of paper straws and cups, but how about a paper battery? One you can compost when you’re done with it. Two companies are already proving it works, one of them with a battery that runs on sugar. So how did humble paper become a next-generation battery material? And could these biodegradable batteries actually replace the ones we use today?

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    Chapters

    00:00 - Intro

    01:14 - From Wood to Watts

    02:05 - Bioenzymatric Fuel Cells à la Paper

    03:37 - Powering Up Devices, Powering Down Waste

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    12 mins
  • How This Overlooked Battery Might Change Everything
    Mar 25 2025

    How This Overlooked Battery Might Change Everything. Sponsor: Get an exclusive 15% discount on Saily data plans! Use code UNDECIDED at checkout. Download Saily app or go to https://saily.com/undecided Multiple research teams have recently made breakthroughs in transforming lithium sulfur batteries from stinky stone to capable battery cathode. Some claim they’ve cracked the code — creating prototypes that charge faster than you can finish this video, and others that last 25,000 cycles. That’s basically a forever battery. What changed? And could lithium sulfur actually overthrow lithium ion as the king of batteries?

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    Chapters

    00:00 - Intro

    02:30 - The Not-So-Great Lithium-Sulfur History

    03:38 - The Turning Point

    05:59 - New Li-Sulfur Breakthroughs

    07:02 - The Need for Speed

    07:41 - A Graphite Cage Match

    08:45 - The "Forever" Battery

    09:54 - Remaining Drawbacks & Outlook

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    12 mins
  • Why Ice Might Be the Future of Heating
    Mar 18 2025

    Why Ice Might Be the Future of Heating. Go to https://surfshark.com/undecided for 4 extra months of Surfshark. Heat from ice? It sounds like a joke—or maybe a paradox. But what if the future of warm, cozy homes lies in freezing water? As outlandish as it seems, an English research team is working on a heat pump that runs off actual ice … well, more like slushies. It’s a serious effort to tackle one of our biggest energy challenges: how to affordably convert buildings over to high efficiency electric heat pumps. But how can a ice source heat pump raise temperatures through freezing?

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    Chapters

    00:00 - Intro

    01:36 - Ice-Source Heat Pump (ISHP)

    03:45 - The Magic of The Theory

    06:22 - What It Isn't

    08:32 - Why ISHP Over Any Other?

    12:38 - Where Does It Stand Today?

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