If you’ve ever tried to keep wild animals out of a garden or a farm, you know the struggle. Peacocks, wild boars, elephants, and macaques don’t really care about a pile of old clothes stuffed with straw. Traditional scarecrows are static and animals figure them out fast.

So, what if we gave …

By M Mithul Pranav · Published in Energy Reports (2026)

So our paper just dropped in Energy Reports (Elsevier), and I figured the best way to celebrate is to break it down in plain terms — what we actually built, why it matters, and what the numbers mean. No paywalls, no dense academic prose. Just …