Most home batteries hang on a garage wall or sit on a slab beside the house. A new California company wants to hide the battery under your backyard deck and put the solar panels on the roof of a pavilion instead of your house.
Outer Spaces, based in El Segundo, announced on November 9, 2026 that it will show its OS1 system in person for the first time at RE+ 2026, held November 16 to 19 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. The company calls OS1 the world's first solar pavilion and battery de...
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HKU Builds a Megawatt Power Module From Gallium Oxide
Every phone charger, electric car and power grid relies on semiconductor switches that control electricity. For decades those switches have been made of silicon, and silicon is nearing its physical limits. Engineers at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) now report a module built on a newer material, gallium oxide, that switched 1,000 volts and 1,000 amperes, a peak of one megawatt. According to HKU's announcement, it is the first time a module made from this class of material has reached tha...
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World’s First Undersea Resort Built
The holiday complex, Poseidon Resort, has been developed. This is no ordinary hotel--it's located 40 feet under the sea in a lagoon off the shore of a private island in Fiji.
L. Bruce Jones, a submarine inventor, has invented the world's first undersea resort. It was due to open in 2008 and has an estimated 150,000 potential guests on its waiting list. It has taken 13 years in the making.
The Poseidon Resort comprises of approximately 225 acres and is about a mile long.
Accessible via a...
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