GEM Machine Produces Energy and Heat from Garbage
The company IST Energy has developed a shipping container called Green Energy Machine (GEM) which can turn trash into electricity and heat. The machine is very useful for office parks, universities, hospitals and town municipality which could get their electricity from their own garbage disposal. A major factor is reduced costs from garbage disposal and as well reduced CO2 emissions from combustion. The machine does pollute as it's using a process called gasification but not as much as combustion.
Freshwater and Electricity Through Osmosis
Robert McGinnis, Yale doctoral student and Menachem Elimelech, Chair of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, have developed systems that can harness the power of osmosis to transform non-potable water sources like seawater to freshwater and generate in the same time electricity.
New MOSFET-based Device Makes Ultra Low Power Green Sources Usable
A company called Advanced Linead Devices, from Sunnyvale, CA, has designed a MOSFET (a power transistor, you may have one your stereo at home - it basically looks like the picture above) that can open itself to very tiny, small, voltages, and it's called "zero-threshold MOSFET".
Natural Gas To Be Produced by Coal Eating Microorganisms
Luca Technologies started up a project to produce natural gas from coal. The idea is to use microorganisms inside the coal layers of earth to change coal into methane.
UK to Get Up to 1 GigaWatt of Free Electricity From Gas Pressure
Engineers from UK's National Grid and a company called 2OC want to built inside the gas pipes mini turbines to produce energy using the gas pressure.
OTEC: Lockheed Martin Studies Ocean Energy Production Tech
Lockheed Martin, specialized in building rockets and aircraft engines, is surprisingly taking over this niche of energy production. They spent the last year studying how to make a big and long fiberglass pipe to sink it into the ocean.
Electricity to be Generated From Garbage Landfills Using Plasma
Unlike incinerators, which use combustion to break down garbage, there is no burning, or oxidation, in this process. The heat from plasma converters causes pyrolysis, a process in which organic matter breaks down and decomposes. Plasma torches can operate in airtight vessels. Combustion requires oxidization; pyrolysis does not.
Discovery: Clathrates Thermoelectric Materials Offer Better Efficiency
Some researchers from the University of Ã…rhus, Denmark, have studied promising thermoelectric materials from the group or clathrates, which create crystals full of 'nano-cages'.
Japanese Green Energy Power Plants on Water
Japanese scientists explore the usefulness of clean-tech energy generators that are floating on the sea as a source of energy for the whole country, announced a Japanese newspaper.
TGER: the Machine that Turns Trash into Electricity
TGER is the name of the trash-eating machine. It uses multiple technologies to fuel a standard 60-kilowatt electrical generator.
