Newly Found Vertical Wind Turbines Arrangement Reduces Space Needs 100 Fold
CalTech scientists have discovered that arranging vertical axis wind turbines (VAWT) in a certain pattern will save the space by 100 times compared to classic arrangements, will output the same amount of energy and will be safer for migrating birds.
Sanyo Develops Flexible Solar Cell That's Thinner Than Human Hair
After announcing the company's plan to become Japan's largest solar manufacturer and one of the top players in the domestic solar industry, Sanyo claimed that it has developed a new type of flexible solar cell that is thinner than a human hair.
MIT Liquid Battery Inventor Returns With Big Plans for Ultra-High Current Industry
We have been talking about liquid batteries back in March, when an MIT announcement stated that they invented one that could store much more than regular batteries can in a simpler and fashionable way by using liquid metals and liquid electrolyte in the middle.
Cladophora: The Alga Behind The Thinnest and Most Powerful Organic Battery Yet
Cladophora is the name of an alga that could be the key to a new revolution in energy storage systems... and not just any storage, but batteries so thin you would have them printed on a paper and charged in about 11 seconds, with net superior capacities above anything that exists on the market.
Coral-Shaped Nanomaterials Making Great Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells
Coral shaped nanomaterials could help scientists make more efficient solar cells. A team of chinese researchers, led by Jinhuai Liu at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, changed the structure of tin oxide to serve various purposes in solar cells, batteries, gas sensors and other devices.
CALMAC Stores Surplus Wind Energy in Ice Banks
While some green projects store the excess energy in a kinetic form, such as the fore-mentioned flywheels, others are inventing ways to use frozen water to collect surpluses from wind farms, which are more productive at night, when winds are stronger.
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.
200 Flywheels Will Back Up New York's Energy Grid Starting 2011
Beacon Power's flywheels will spin at up to 16,000 rpm, and will be powered by the excess energy produced at night or at times when power consumption is not so big. The numbers are also impressive: the entire array will be able to store about 10% (20 MW) of New York's energy needs.
Daniel Nocera's Sun Catalytix Receives $7.1 Million for Developing Photosynthesis System
Daniel G. Nocera of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is the inventor of the most important solar energy system of the century. His 2007 designed system is able to create cheap solar energy based on the photosynthesis process.
Amazing Experiment Creates 3D Self-Folding Solar Cell Around Water Droplet
University of Illinois researchers discovered a method to manufacture three-dimensional, single-crystalline silicon solar cells from thin films. They used photolithography and a process driven by capillary interaction that made the micron-thick film to bend around itself.
