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Sahimo: Hydrogen Powered Car Consuming 1L/568 km!
Something truly amazing comes from Turkey: some students from Sakarya University just released a prototype of what seems to be a car - but...
Quantasol Breaks Solar Efficiency Records With Location-Optimized Cells
There are many companies in the solar power business that want to make themselves a name, but only few manage to innovate something indeed useful. This time I think Quantasol, a UK company has something worth looking at - very efficient GaAs-based solar cells accustomed to your location.
Solar Impulse: Viable Manned Flight Powered by The Sun
Solar Impulse, the first solar powered plane has been unveiled in Switzerland. With a wingspan of a Boeing 747 but lighter than a small car, the plan could fly around the world powered entirely by the sun.
Artificial Leaves Will Convert Light into Electricity
Researchers at Leiden University in the Netherlands plan to develop artificial leaf using nature's building blocks to harness solar energy even in the worst places.
Microalgae Biofuel an Alternative to Crop Biofuel
Using crops as a source of energy generated in the past years a great controversy. Once because we could use those crops as food for people and second because we use good agriculture lands to generate energy. But what if we could use an alternative to the crops and use smaller areas of lands to generate the same amount of energy?
Earthquakes: The Other Side of Drilling for Geothermal Power
Geothermal technology surely is one of the cleanest technologies available to us, extracting clean heat from the hot underground. This energy source is often seen as inexhaustible, and its benefits seem to outweight its weak points. For decades, geothermal companies have been drilling into Earth's crust at depths of over 4-5km.
Dean Kamen's Stirling Engine Hybrid Scooter Runs on Anything
The inventor of Segway (you know, those 2-wheeled self-balancing personal transporters you see in touristic cities - I saw one in Rome) is now specializing in Stirling engines - the grandfather of the steam engine and more efficient than current gasoline engines.
Oceanic Winds Prove Efficient Renewable Energy Resources
In the renewable energy field offshore wind farms are not a new concept and Europe has already made several developments in the technology, which promises better returns than onshore farms being built all over the world.
Newly Developed Light Sensor Could Improve Solar Cells and Cameras
Scientists at the University of Toronto have created a new type of light sensor that acts like a pixel in a digital camera. Researchers believe the sensor, which takes advantage of a phenomenon called multi-exciton generation (MEG), could lead to substantial advancements in the performance of a variety of electronic devices including digital cameras.
PET Bottles Used to Sustain Wind Power
Some people have realized that our interference with the planet's ecosystems is in most cases disastrous and have come with several ideas to diminish our influence on the environment. Industrial designer Chris Allen has come up with an idea to use plastic bottles that we usually throw away to help generate energy from wind.
