Our editor-tested and researched portable and whole-home options keep appliances and other essentials running during an emergency—no matter what.

Power outages don’t care about your schedule and winter storms have a nasty habit of knocking out electricity right when you need heat, hot food, and a charged phone the most. Portable power stations solve this modern anxiety by keeping the essentials running when the grid fails and the Jackery Explorer 1000 power station complete with a 200W solar panel has just dropped to an all-time low of $599 on Amazon,

The latest idea is based on osmosis, a natural process in which water will move from a place with lower concentration of, for example, salts, through a semipermeable membrane and into a more concentrated solution. This continues until both sides reach equilibrium.

Illustration: Dr. Ville Kaajakari's shoe power generator. Dr. Ville Kaajakari, assistant professor of electrical engineering at Louisiana Tech University, is being featured by MEMS Investor Journal, a national online industry publication, for developing a ...

'Dunkelflaute' sends wind power generation plummeting in U.K. and Germany in November "And in Germany (for years) we have been acting as if the question of adding secured power is something that can be postponed. We can already see very clearly today what ...