German Institute Integrates Highly-Efficient Solar Cells on Ski Helmets
Look at the picture. What do you see? A helmet, you'll say. However, for the more experienced, this is not just any kind of...
Researchers Develop More Efficient Energy-Producing Clothes
How would you feel having solar cells in/on your clothes to recharge your small devices? You have to admit, it does sound a little...
New Zinc-Air Battery Gets Charged by Swapping Its Electrolyte in Under 3 Minutes
In a time when people are trying to find a reason to buy an electric car, because of the time it takes to charge,...
Wind Harvester – New Horizontal Wind Turbine That Produces Energy From Low Winds
If you've only seen wind turbines in a picture and never really been up there next to one, you probably don’t realize how much...
New Grid-Ready Aqueous Lithium Ion Battery to Be Developed in German University
Although they're being touted as the perfect energy storage medium for electric cars, lithium ion batteries, in the form they exist today, are not...
Record-Breaking Efficiency for Polymer Solar Cells Achieved by UC Researchers
University of California researchers led by Yang Yang, professor of materials science and engineering, have developed a polymer solar cell that achieves a 10.6 percent...
16 Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles Acquired by U.S. Military
There’s all this talk about hydrogen fuel cell cars, but maybe nobody thought it would go that far: now the US military has them!...
NiMH Batteries Could Become Stationary Batteries With Toyota’s Help
Have you ever wondered whatever happens to the batteries from hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs)? Do they get recycled or are they just thrown away?...
New Carbon Nanotube-Based Thermoelectric Material Could Be a Game Changer
A new thermoelectric material has been invented at the Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials at wake Forest University. It's been called Power Felt,...
Tesla Motors CEO Foresees EV Battery Prices Will Soon Drop Under $200 per Kilowatt
Electric car batteries are going to get cheaper, or at least that's what Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors, said in a conference call...
