U.S. Navy Fuel Cells Produce More Fuel From Seawater
The U.S. Navy is looking at a way to extract hydrogen from seawater while capturing carbon dioxide to be used in fuel cells.
Fuel cells...
Advanced Solar Cell Resembles Rose Petal Epidermis
The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) discovered a cheat for greater organic solar cell efficiency based on the epidermal cells of rose petals.
Rose petals...
Elon Musk’s Tesla Plans to Acquire Elon Musk’s SolarCity, Offer Joint Services
Tesla and SolarCity plan to merge energy-efficient products for consumers. Solar City, which produces and installs solar panels, and Tesla, which produces battery-powered vehicles,...
World’s First Ever Solar Plant Provides Power Day and Night
Crescent Dunes Project, located in Nevada, goes down in history as the first ever solar power plant, which provides clean electricity 24 hours a...
New NANO Li-Ion Battery Does not Catch Fire, Designed for Defense Missions
Many battery cells experience thermal runaway, a condition that results in damage from overheating. Kokam Company produced a new battery, composed of Nickel Manganese...
Li-Ion Batteries Take a Salty Bath to Boost Performance
Australian scientists discovered a way to boost the performance of Li-ion batteries, by giving them a salty bath.
No matter how well you preserve your...
Apple May Enter the Renewable Energy Market
Apple may be planning to sell electricity power to the U.S. markets. The company just filed a request to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission...
Newly Discovered Crystal Rids Radioactive Waste
How can radioactive waste from nuclear-fuel reprocessing plants be banished? Nature Communications published research by scientists at the national level at EPFL and the...
Bionic Leaf Turns Light Into Liquid Biofuel
Scientists at Harvard developed a bionic leaf that can convert light into biomass more efficiently than nature, and then make biofuel.
Artificial photosynthesis has been...
German Model Predicts How Much Renewable Energy Will Enter the Grid
German experts developed mathematical models, which promise to predict, with great precision, how much renewable energy will be generated in the coming hours and...
