New Sport Sensor Technology Harvests Energy And Improves Performance
The latest innovation in energy harvesting comes from the technology company Danfoss PolyPower. The material is a sports sensor technology, which uses electrostatic film to measure force and stance, when worn during sport activities. The material can monitor performance, providing data for knee and elbow angle, shoulder alignment, breathing rates, muscle volume and many more [...]
Read more...
More Posts
In a recent experiment involving four robo-trucks in Japan, the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization [NEDO] was able to realize a 15% increase in fuel efficiency. One way to increase fuel efficiency is to reduce drag, which is why design engineers put so much into smoothing out the lines on fuel efficient and [...] Read more... | Velkess, a startup run by Bill Gray, uses fiberglass on a lightweight frame to prove his cheaper kinetic energy recovery system can work in something like a renewable home installation. When you think about clean, renewable, energy for the home, four things likely come to mind, solar panels, wind turbines, or hydroelectric turbines. The fourth is the problem, because lack of [...] Read more... |
In Germany, industrial businesses pay a premium on renewable energy, a tax which seems to be funding the development and and installation of further renewable energy plants and the decommissioning of fossil fuel and nuclear plants. For German automakers, though, whose sales are suffering, how can they pay renewable energy taxes and develop and manufacture [...] Read more... | Socket is a soccer ball that produces kinetic energy when it is played. It is hoped that the energy produced can help power off-grid areas across the world. That aim is looking quite realistic now as the team behind Soccket, Uncharted Play, has now launched a Kickstarter campaign, along with a brand new design for [...] Read more... |
Honda has devised a way, the first process of its kind, to extract the rare earth metals from used batteries and other products, recycling them to be made into new batteries. Electric and hybrid electric vehicles, in themselves are, without a doubt, cleaner vehicles. In operation, they have fewer, even zero, emissions when compared to their petroleum-fueled counterparts. Lifecycle [...] Read more... | Electric public transportation, of course, is nothing new, and has been used for decades. Current systems, though, are either unsightly, requiring overhead wires to transfer power to the vehicle, or downright dangerous, the third rail. The latest solution, battery electric vehicles, does away with both of these power supply schemes, but does bring up some [...] Read more... |
In 2013, the Arctic is safe from at least one oil company’s drills. Royal Dutch Shell announced on Wednesday that it will not be drilling in the Arctic this year. The announcement is on the heels of many embarrassing and costly accidents while drilling exploratory wells off the north coast of Alaska in 2012. The [...] Read more... | A study conducted by scientists from University of North Carolina and Harvard University claims that global wind power resources have been significantly overestimated. Amanda S Adams and David W Keith state that production levels of 2 to 7 watts per square meter, estimated before, are unrealistic and should be brought down to not more than [...] Read more... |
A great example of how biogas can be successfully converted to electricity and power the lights of an entire city, is given by the Mexican metropolitan Monterrey. Year 2001 was commemorated in Monterrey‘s history by the launch of the first ever waste-to-energy project in Latin America. Since then, the equivalent of around 1 million tons [...] Read more... | Professor Graeme Hammer, a leading Australian crop scientist at The University of Queensland, developed a complex model which explains how agricultural crop yield will be affected by global warming. The results of his 10 years work was just published in the latest issue of the world’s leading science journal Nature. The article shows evidence that [...] Read more... |
Like the semiconductors silicon and gallium arsenide, graphene absorbs photons, but unlike these, the photon forces multiple electrons from their orbits, instead of just one. Semiconductor photovoltaic solar cells operate absorbing photons. When a photon is absorbed, it knocks a single electron out of place, which can be collected to generate an electric current. There [...] Read more... | The current Oregon bill is considering a 1.5¢/mile tax on vehicles getting over 55mpg, meaning an driver of an electric vehicle would have to pay an additional $225 if he drove 15,000 miles that year. Taxation is doing your fair share to support the state-run infrastructure in which you live, work, and play. It makes sense, but is it excessive? Depending on [...] Read more... |
Categories
Air powered
Biodiesel
Biogas
Car industry
Climate Change
Efficient engines
Electric Vehicles
Energy news
Energy Storage
Ethanol
Experiments
Free Energy
Geothermal Power
Gravity
Green Buildings
Green Designs
Green Electronics
Green News
Green Policy
How to…
Hybrid vehicles
Hydrogen Power
Magnetic Power
New Inventions
Nikola Tesla
Nuclear Power
Piezoelectric
Pointless Green
Pollution
Power Saving
Recycling
Solar Power
Stirling engine
Superconductors
Thermoelectric
Uncategorized
Video
Water Car
Water Purifiers
Wave power
Wind Power
