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Sustainable Energy

Energy moves through a chain. It is generated, stored and put to use, and when a battery, magnet or turbine reaches the end of its life its materials can be recovered to begin the chain again. Each card introduces one technology; open it to see the papers, books, projects, talks and coverage that deal with it.

Recovered materials return to generation
Materials lens

Choose a technology to light up the elements it depends on, or choose an element to find the technologies that use it.

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How the themes moved

One row per technology, one block per year. Rows are ordered by the average year of their items, so the newest themes sit at the top and the earliest at the bottom. Choose a block to list that year’s items for the technology, a year to list everything from that year, or a name to open its card.

Items in a year