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A Cleaner And More Efficient Way to Capture Carbon Dioxide

The process of separating CO2 from its source is called capturing (CO2). The new method discovered by the scientists from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory might replace all the existing Carbon Dioxide capturing devices and improve a lot their performance and stability.

Italy Plans to Install the World's Largest Rooftop Photovoltaic Plant

An Italian company plans to install the world's biggest rooftop solar photovoltaic plant with a Padua warehouse and truck-loading complex to generate its electric energy from the sun, according to a Berlin manufacturer.

Efficient Electricity Production from Onion Juice

The future life style is quite different than we could imagine right now. Many experts predict that we will not need to transport our energy around the world as it will be produced in our community.

Energy Efficient Organic LEDs Made from Salmon DNA

Researchers at the University of Connecticut have used salmon DNA to develop next-gen LED bulbs.

Potable Water Tank Mixer Eliminates Stagnation Utilizing Solar Power

The company SolarBee has created a potable-water tank mixer, designed to eliminate thermal stratification and stagnation in potable water.

GreenRay Solar's Microinverters Make Solar Cells Easier to Handle

To solve the problem of expensive equipment associated with electricity conversion from DC to AC, a start-up company, GreenRay Solar studies the development of a solar panel able to generate AC current directly.

Waste From Beer Factories Turned into Energy

Wolfgang Bengel and his partners have found a way to efficiently recycle the waste grains and wastewater and use them to fuel the beer factories.

MIT Students Building Electric Car That Charges in 10 Minutes

Radu Gogoana, a Romanian student from MIT (I'm proud of Romanian students, btw, I am Romanian), leading a team of other students have an ongoing project aimed to build an electric car able to drive 200 miles on a single charge and charge in about 10 minutes. As you can see in the video below, they use A123's batteries.

Sub-Nano Platinum Particles Make Fuel Cells 13 Times Better

Nano-sized machinery makes me shiver. Thinking at a molecular and atomic level when speaking about technology makes me wonder even more. Even if I consider myself a logic person, extremely small and extremely large objects impress me.

EATR Robot Powered by Vegetation and a New, Efficient Steam Engine

Steam power is being revived as Robotic Technology Inc. develops the "EATR" as in Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot - basically a robot that can have a meal of gasoline, heavy fuel, kerosene, diesel, etc and biomass, thus never having to be recharged as long as it has some wood sticks around.