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MIT Seeks Federal Funds for Developing Possibly Hazardous Virus Battery

Viruses seemed like a frightened enemy that kept standing in our way for the past... million years. Although they have their qualification and role in the ecosystem, we seem to hate viruses and only associate them will our colds, hepatitis, and other illnesses. Not for a moment we could think of them as of a power source.

Experiment Shows Desalination Plants Could Produce Hydrogen

As the world's potable water resources thin each year, scientists strive to decypher ways to use the immense amounts of water that abound the oceans and seas, and to make them drinkable. All that desalination process consumes energy resources, and that makes water more expensive to produce and drink in some parts of the world.

Seeo Presents 300 Watt-Hour/Kg Solid Polymer Electrolyte Battery

Lithium-ion batteries are used in all the gadgets that surround us, and in the forthcoming electric cars. New versions of them are on their way, and one month after another brings news about new emerging technologies.

Japanese Innovation Makes Wind Turbines Storm-Proof

I have an article showing a video of a wind turbine torn apart by heavy winds. In fact, if you research more, you'll find out that this is the reason the wind turbines are placed in pristine fields, with no houses close to them and each turbine has to have a safety distance from the others. In case of a storm, if one falls down... you get the picture.