Alkol's New System Converts Your Car to Run on E85 in One Hour
The company Alkol Inc located in Brazil has developed a new system called 1HourFlex that can convert your car to run on any amount of ethanol or gasoline(E85) in less than one hour.
Juice Extracted from Rotten Watermelons to be Used in Biofuel Production
Every summer, hundreds of thousands of tons of watermelons are transformed in garbage because they aren't good enough for marketplace. A new research says that the juice extracted from these watermelons could be used to the biofuel production.
Carolina Solar Energy Opens 650kW Solar Park
North Carolina's newest solar energy park was opened Wednesday, developed by Carolina Solar Energy. The farm is able to generate about 650KW of green electrical energy, enough to power about 60 homes in Person County.
Small Autonomous Cleaning Robot Makes Ships Faster and Fuel Efficient
The US Office of Naval Research (ONR) has recently conducted tests with a unique ship hull grooming robot called the Robotic Hull Bio-inspired Underwater Grooming (HULL BUG) tool.
World's Most Efficient Solar Cell Converts 43% Incident Sunlight into Electricity
Researchers at the University of South Wales in Sydney, Australia, have created the world's most efficient solar cell. Professor Martin Green and his team of U.S. researchers have succeeded in developing solar cells that convert 43 percent of sunlight into electricity.
Two-New Massive Solar Plants to Be Built in The Californian Desert
Southern California Edison (SCE) has announced that it is partnering in two large-scale solar installations in Southern California.
Vindicator Laser Wind Sensor Increases the Output of Wind Turbines
The Manassas, Virginia-based Catch the Wind has signed an agreement with National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) to test the company's Vindicator laser wind sensor that automatically optimizes wind turbine direction to boost its output.
Sony’s Olivine Lithium Iron Phosphate Batteries Keep 4 Times More Power
Sony has developed a new type of lithium ion batteries that combine long-life high power performances, using olivine-type lithium iron phosphate as the cathode material. The Olivine-type lithium iron phosphate used in this new battery is a perfect cathode material due to its robust crystal structure and stable performance, even at high temperatures.
Geobacter Microbe Produces Electricity From Mud and Wastewater
Derek Lovley, from the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently experimented with a microbe named "Geobacter", who loves to live in sediments and mud, and whose hairlike filaments can produce electricity from the muddy environment it loves to live in.
eSolar SunTower CSP Plant Capable of Generating 5MW of Solar Energy
eSolar, a leading provider of modular, scalable solar thermal power technology has unveiled its 5-megawatt (MW) SunTower power plant, being the first CSP solar tower of its kind in the US.
