Time for an Electric Road Trip? Tesla’s Supercharger Network is LIVE in California
Electric vehicles are still struggling, as a market segment, to get into the mainstream. Tesla Motors CEO, Elon Musk, knows this, and is...
Chinese Government Aids The Solar Power Industry
Chinese industry officials and governmental spokesmen announced that new policies on subsidies and accessibility to the grid will soon be introduced to help expansion...
A Portable Wind Turbine That Fits Into a Truck Container
It is already well established that for isolated communities wind turbines are a perfect source of energy. However, needless to say, these turbines, especially...
Fuel Cells in Ontario Wastewater Treatment Plant Producing Cleaner Electricity
From anaerobic digestion of biomass to produce biogas, which in turn is burned to produce electricity and power up their plant in California, the...
Cobalt – Graphene Catalyst Might Replace Platinum in Hydrogen Fuel Cells
Platinum is undoubtedly quite an expensive element to use as a catalyst in hydrogen fuel cells. For that reason, scientists at Brown University are...
Solar Power is Just Like Flu: You Can Catch It From Your Neighbor
Researchers from Yale and New York University recently completed a study of solar installations in California, covering January 2001 to December 2011. What...
GELI, The Smart Grid Operating System, Advances to Next Step
Currently, power grids are very centralized and electricity is produced on demand. This also makes the power grid very susceptible to interruptions due to...
Sodium Could Be The Next Best Thing For Rechargeable Batteries
With lithium batteries being the most desirable mean for powering devices, it is inevitable that their main disadvantage is highlighted. The element that powers...
Smart Grid Tech Saved Chattanooga $1.4 million
Power grids are fragile things, utility poles and wires susceptible to damage by storms, falling trees, even animal activity. Add to this the increasing...
Detecting Damaged Nuclear Reactors Using Muons Radiography
Cosmic rays can be used to gain information from damaged nuclear reactors. This conclusion was made by a team of researchers from the multidisciplinary...
