IBM’s Photovoltaic Prototype Can Concentrate the Power of 2000 Suns
IBM Researchers have built a low-cost prototype solar dish that produces electricity and generates heat for desalination or cooling. IBM got the idea for...
California, Global Leader in Hydrogen Refueling Stations by 2016
Worldwide, there are just over 200 hydrogen refueling stations, which reflects the addition of just 27 stations in 2012.
There are probably just as many...
Graphene’s Mechanical Strengths Overestimated, Scientists Prove
Graphene has been touted as the ultimate supermaterial - better conductivity, one-atom thickness, stronger-than-steel mechanical performance etc. However, Rice scientists have discovered recently that...
Adoption of Clean Energy Too Slow to Limit Global Warming
On Wednesday, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said that low-carbon energy development is progressing far too slowly to have any limiting effect on global...
Electrovaya Lithium-Ion Battery is Non-Toxic and Less-Prone to Fire
With concerns over lithium-ion battery flammability and toxicity, adoption of electric and electrified vehicles has been slower than it could have been.
Case in point:...
Hydrogen Fuel Generation – Breakthrough Catalyst Investigated in India
Hydrogen fuel used in hydrogen fuel cells, as a replacement for natural gas, or even in an internal combustion engine, burns clean and emits...
Nanotech Hybrid Solar Cell Generates Electricity from Both Light and Sound
A new nanotech hybrid solar cell developed by Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology and Sungkyunkwan University in South Korea, generates electricity from light as...
Naturally-Occurring Hydrogen Fuel Could Come From Geological Formations
One problem that hydrogen fuel has is the efficiency of the system by which it is produced, mainly electrically or chemically, but what if...
Randy Curry’s New Plasma Generator Could Revolutionize the Energy Industry
University of Missouri engineer Randy Curry has developed a plasma generator that can send a ring of plasma out a couple of feet into...
Thin Film Solar Cells to Get Printed on Water: New Technology
With the ability to put solar power anywhere just like a bumper sticker, the possibilities for solar power just expanded.
Thin-film solar power, it was...
