Hydrogen Potential Accounts for 20% of World Carbon Reduction by 2050
BONN, Germany — The gradual utilization of Hydrogen as electrical power, transportation, and heating source would provide for a sizeable 20 percent reduction of carbon emissions...
Sunswift eVe 2.0 Could Become Word’s First Street-Legal Solar-Powered Electric Vehicle
University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia – After many successes over the years, building and racing solar-powered electric vehicles, UNSW is now striking...
Freevolt Harvests Radio Waves to Charge Your Gadgets
Freevolt is a groundbreaking new technology, which harvests energy from radio waves. It provides constant electrical charge to electronic devices absolutely for free.
If you...
Super Strain of Microalgae with Biofuel Potential Discovered in Australia
Researchers at SARDI have discovered and isolated a super strain of a native microalgae species after six years of bioprospecting. This discovery could form...
LIDAR: Predicting The Wind By Using Smart, Laser-Equipped Wind Turbines
The researchers from Riso DTU completed the first test on a wind turbine with a laser-based anemometer built into the spinner to increase electricity generation.
New Electrochemical Cell Can Make Synthetic Fuel
Scientists at the University of Illinois may have found a way to move away from the use of fossil fuels and towards synthetically producing...
New "Frozen Smoke" Material Could Become The Best Energy Storage Ever
Belonging to the family of the world's lightest solids, a new material invented by two researchers from the University of Central Florida, Assoc. Prof. Lei Zhai and postdoctoral associate Jianhua Zou could constitute the world's best energy storage material for supercapacitors and lithium batteries.
World's First Osmotic Power Plant Goes Online in Norway
The process, called osmotic power, is a harvesting the energy that appears when salt water and fresh water meet through an osmotic filter. For the moment, the project is small-scale but could prove the great potential of osmotic energy.
New Fuel Cell Powers Mobile Phones Using Urine
Scientists from University of Bristol and Bristol Robotics Laboratory in Southwest England found a way to charge a mobile device using the power of...
Overwhelmed by Demand, SunPower Increases Solar Cells Production
Despite a continued increase of solar panels production at the Malaysia-based factory that will augment the megawatt production by 65% in 2011, Tom Werner, CEO of SunPower, revealed in a financial-related conference call that demand for the company's products exceeded supply both in the second half of this year but also going into 2011.
