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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Huawei LUTERRA S2 Packs Home Solar and Storage Into One Quiet Unit
Home batteries are usually a stack of separate boxes: an inverter, one or more battery packs, a controller and a lot of wiring. On November 9, 2026, in Palma, Spain, Huawei announced the LUTERRA S2, an all-in-one residential energy system that folds a hybrid inverter, storage and AI energy management into one stackable unit. The company says it can be installed and commissioned in minutes.
This article is based on Huawei's launch announcement. The performance figures below are the company's...
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IBM announces carbon nanotube research breakthrough
IBM (NYSE:IBM) announced a research breakthrough that could soon permit replacing silicon transistors with carbon nanotubes in future high-performance electronic chips. Carbon nanotubes consist of single atomic sheets of carbon rolled up into a tube. The carbon nanotubes form the core of a transistor device whose superior electrical properties promise several generations of technology scaling beyond the physical limits of silicon.
The IBM researchers developed a fabrication process that permi...
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Rubber That Can Use Energy from body movements to Generate Power
Power-generating rubber material could harness walking and other movement to charge electronic devices.
Researchers at Princeton University have recently invented a new energy-harvesting rubber material composed of ceramic nanoribbons that could harvest energy from your breathing and walking.
This material is composed of ceramic nanoribbons embedded onto silicone rubber sheets which generates electricity when flexed and is highly efficient at converting mechanical energy to electrical ener...
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