Biodegradable Blades for Wind Turbines Could Green Up the Wind Industry
The United States currently has enough wind turbines to power 12 million homes and is growing by leaps and bounds, and wind energy is...
Concentrated Solar Power for High Temperature Chemical Reactions
The conditions to carry out some of the chemical reactions required for modern industry aren't easily achieved, some requiring millions of pounds of pressure,...
Antiquated Electric Grid Needs a Reboot
Electric companies played soothsayer to customers days before Hurricane Sandy’s arrival. They warned of extensive power failure and potential widespread outages. Their predictions were...
Chevy Volt Batteries Find New Life as Backup Power Supply
Electric vehicle batteries are expensive for a number of reasons, in addition to all the science and engineering that goes into them, they...
Stony Brook Gets Award for Piezoelectric Railroad Energy Harvestor
Engineers at Stony Brook University in New York have won a national award for developing an energy harvestor that significantly reduces railroads’ carbon dioxide...
Fraunhofer Team Invents Printed Thermoelectric Device
At the Electronica trade fair in Munich (13 – 16 November), researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Advanced Materials IFAM in...
Wind Power in Texas Breaks Output and Subsidy Records
On November 10 at 10:21 am., Texas’ wind energy has hit yet another record generating an 8,521-megawatt power, which is about thrice its average output...
Photosynthesis-Inspired Hydrogen Production Method Developed
Creating hydrogen fuel may not be a pipe dream after all. Researchers have deepened their understanding of photosynthesis using computer models, and this has...
Paper Scissors Could Offer Solution for Graphene-Based Energy Storage
Scientists from Northwestern University developed a method to make nanofluidic devices that can be used in batteries, water purification systems, energy harvesting and DNA...
Can Renewable Energy Be Beautiful? Meet Balloon Power!
New York City's Freshkills Park is no longer an eyesore or olfactory assault, as it used to be a landfill. It has since been...
