Tiny Dead Marine Cells Helping Us Create Better Solar Cells
Using microscopic creatures as our friends is not a new idea, not it has been used recently. Nowadays, pushed by our green energy needs, we have to find solutions by using and probably killing some of our little friends to make us energy. This phrase sounded like the madhouse, now let's get to the real subject.
New Method for Splitting Water Passively with Heat and Light
Prof. David Milstein, and his colleagues from the Weizmann Institute, the Organic Chemistry Department, demonstrated a new way of generating hydrogen and oxygen, through a series of steps that involve applying heat, light, and a special catalyst.
Electric Cars Coming from China
As many producers announce their hybrid or electric cars, it's a more obvious sign that the future is for electric cars.
There is a competition to be the first one to produce electric cars and have them on the road.
China is trying to get on the track for this and they will try to produce 500 000 electric cars in the next two years. It might not sound much, but compared to the 2100 produced last year, it's a great evolution.
World's First Single-Axis Solar Tracking System
The officials at California's South San Joaquin Irrigation District (SSJID) and solar energy experts at Denver-based Conergy Americas have developed the world's first single-axis...
10% of Scotland's Biofuel to be Algae-based by 2020
Last week Scotland's Energy Minister launched the Biomara research project to study the feasibility of microalgae and seaweed usage as alternative energy in the production of biofuels. This project aligns with the requests of having at least 10% of clean transport energy by 2020. The project is about $8 million (€6 million) worth.
Mechanical Battery – Flywheel-Powered 90% Efficient Energy Storage
We have been so focused on chemical storage systems lately, that some us forget other old, seemingly more efficient, mechanical batteries. Such a battery is the flywheel. Several successful experiments have been carried out in the last 50 years, and the flywheel's applications ranged from acting as a UPS for a hospital to putting an entire train to movement and then to cruise speed, only by its power.
New Method for Extracting Hydrogen from Green Algae
Analyzing a single-celled green alga, researchers have found a fermentation process which was not known before that can revolution hydrogen production. Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, a soil or fresh water single-celled alga, produces its own energy by fermentation when it has no source of oxygen.
Japanese Optical Fiber Solar Cell Harvesting Infrared
New types of solar cells emerge every month, but this particular kind has caught my attention, not due to its efficiency (approx 1%), but to the idea that conceived it.
The 5-minutes Rechargeable Hydrogen Tank Invented
Obama's plans for a prosperous hydrogen economy cannot come alive if we don't find the proper storage for the hydrogen, as an energy carrier. The scientific community, funded by their governments and/or private investors, are looking for several solutions to this issue.
Blood-Fed Yeast Batteries Could Greenly Power Pacemakers
As if it wasn't enough for MIT's virus batteries, scientists from the University of British Columbia have now devised a fuel cell prototype able to feed itself from the sugar in the blood stream.The tricky part of the invention is that the fuel cell is made of nothing else but a type of bacteria, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, that lives in yeast.
