A disused coal mine in Wollongong will be the first test site for a renewable energy company that lowers weights down old mine shafts to spin turbines and create electricity.

A trio of physicists from Princeton University, CIT's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Spectral Sensor Solutions, all in the U.S., is proposing the possibility of generating electricity using energy from ...

Australian gravity storage hopeful says testing could start on its first trial project in 2026, after agreement reached to use a coal mine shaft near Wollongong.

How to save renewable energy and give it to consumers during peak hours? Scientists are working on various options. We have already discussed one of them – sand batteries. The alternative is gravity ...

In a controversial experiment, a team of physicists investigated whether we could harness the Earth's rotational energy to generate electricity. It's a deceptively simple idea that researchers have ...

The town of Hamlet, North Carolina, seemed to hit the jackpot in September 2014. After the community had endured decades of economic despair and high poverty rates, the world’s largest producer of ...