Posts Tagged electricity

UCLA Scientists Produce Cheap Fuel from Solar Power and CO2

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Energy news on March 31, 2012

Running an electric car on electricity is something pretty common (and logical), but running a gasoline car on electricity is something of fantastic realm. Still, a team of UCLA scientists have succeeded doing this – they produced high-grade alcohol by using electricity and fueled an internal combustion engine with it. “The current way to store [...]

Italy To Invest In Egypt's Wind Power Projects

Posted by Mihai Sandru in Wind Power on June 13, 2011

Italgen Group recently announced it is planning to allocate around €140 million to wind energy projects in Gabal El Zeit, Egypt. These projects should be capable of producing about 120 megawatts of clean energy a year.

Researchers Create New Electric Fuel Cell Powered by Our Own Body

Posted by Mihai Sandru in Energy Storage on September 8, 2010

Nowadays everybody’s looking to find new sources of energy. All our electronics or gadgets, including laptops, iPods,cell phones need good batteries to keep talking or playing. The truth is that our batteries aren’t so good being not much better than the voltaic pile battery invented more than 200 years ago by Alessandro Volta.

Masdar to Build 100MW Concentrated Solar Power Plant in Abu Dhabi

Posted by Mihai Sandru in Solar Power on June 12, 2010

The CSP power plant dubbed Shams 1 (the Arabic word for “Sun”) will cover one square mile of the desert in Madinat Zayed, about 75 miles from Abu Dhabi and will be able to generate 100 MW of electricity.

Converting Plastic Waste into Clean Energy Without Releasing Harmful Emissions

Posted by Mihai Sandru in Experiments on May 16, 2010

Student scientists at Northeastern University have designed an apparatus capable to transform waste plastic into an alternative fuel without releasing harmful emissions.

MicroBelt – Portable Wind Energy Harvester to Power Wireless Sensors

Posted by Mihai Sandru in Wind Power on April 1, 2010

Humdinger Wind Energy LLC has developed a micro turbine called MicroBelt, that is able power the new information age with a billion tiny harvesters. The millions of wireless sensors that collect a variety of information could be powered by this little device.

Artificial Photosynthesis Could Power Homes on a Bottle of Water

Posted by Mihai Sandru in Hydrogen Power on March 7, 2010

MIT chemist Dan Nocera claims that with just one bottle of drinking water and four hours of sunlight, he can generate 30 KWh of electric energy, being enough to power an entire home. This process consist in a a cobalt-based catalyst that uses solar energy to split water and produce hydrogen.

ComEd's New Solar Energy Project for Chicago Homes Proposes Smarter Grid

Posted by Mihai Sandru in Solar Power on March 4, 2010

ComEd, a Chicago-based utility company has come up with a new solar energy pilot that will outfit about 100 Chicago-area homes with solar panels and ÃƒÂ¢€Ã…â€œat least 50 of those with battery backup, ‘smart’ meters, net metering and a grid-tied status that enables them to send unused electric energy from their solar energy systems back to the grid.ÃƒÂ¢€

SOccket – A Soccer Ball That Generates and Stores Renewable Energy

Posted by Mihai Sandru in Pointless Green on February 1, 2010

A group of students at the Harvard University have come up with an ingenious idea that could change the lives of African people. They have developed an energy harvesting soccer ball called sOccket that is able to produce electric energy when being kicked around.

New Transparent Solar Cells Can be Sprayed Onto Any Glass Surface

Posted by Mihai Sandru in Solar Power on January 14, 2010

Researchers at New Energy Technologies have recently developed transparent solar cells which can be sprayed onto any type of glass. They successfully removed all metals from the solar cell and replaced them with an environmentally-friendly see-thru compound.

LIDAR: Predicting The Wind By Using Smart, Laser-Equipped Wind Turbines

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Wind Power on January 6, 2010

The researchers from Riso DTU completed the first test on a wind turbine with a laser-based anemometer built into the spinner to increase electricity generation.

EU Planning on Building An European Renewable Energy "Supergrid"

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Energy news on January 5, 2010

The first electricity grid dedicated to renewable power becomes a political reality this month, because nine European countries draw up plans to link their clean energy projects around the North Sea.

Asia's Largest High-Concentration PV Plant Capable of Producing 100MW in Taiwan

Posted by Mihai Sandru in Solar Power on December 25, 2009

Yesterday ( 23 December 2009) has been inaugurated in southern Taiwan the largest High-Concentration Photovoltaic (HCPV) in Asia. According to the officials this HCPV power plant is expected to save up to 700 tons of carbon emission annually.

Hot Electrons Could Increase the Solar Cell's Power Output

Posted by Mihai Sandru in Solar Power on December 20, 2009

Researchers at Boston College have developed new solar cells that successfully use hot electrons to increase the cells’ power output. According to the scientists, the concept could lead to solar cells that break conventional efficiency limits.

Researchers Develop Device to Convert Vibrations Into Electricity

Posted by Mihai Sandru in Energy Storage, New Inventions on December 2, 2009

Bristol University researchers have developed a new way to provide free energy to businesses and homes. They have created a new type of energy-harvesting device that makes use of non-linear springs and mass.

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