Artificial Photosynthesis Succeeded Using Gold "Leaves"
Kane Jennings and Peter Ciesielski, along with a team of scientists from the Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, have been working to create the world's first artificial leaf, that can do what natural leaves do: capture the light. More, their leaves transform that light into electricity. So, the nature's 3.5 billion years work is now to be synthesized in a lab experiment. Here's how they do it.
Sleekest Hydrogen Powered Sportscar: Honda FC Sport
Though some blogs take it as a surprise, it's not something new coming from Honda: their vision of a sportscar powered entirely by a hydrogen fuel cell... not surprisingly, the same that's into their FCX Clarity, released this summer.
VIVACE: Transforming Destructive Water Vibrations Into Electricity
VIVACE (Vortex Induced Vibrations for Aquatic Clean Energy) is a newly invented machine harvesting slow-moving ocean and river currents. A researcher from the University of Michigan has come up with the system that works like a fish, turning potentially destructive vibrations found in fluid flows into electricity.
New Wind Turbine Generator Gets 57% More Power
Wind power is one of the cheapest forms of energy available to us, because it mainly depends on wind's speed, and it works 24/7, with no dependence on the moment of the day. A new company called ExRo Technology, based in Vancouver, BC, wants to commercially develop a new type of generator to be used in wind turbines all over the world. The interesting fact is that this new generator can increase the electricity output by 50%.
Power Air`s Batteries Use Zinc as Fuel: Cheaper Alternative to Li-Ion
A California company, named "Power Air" wants to introduce a fuel cell to the market next year. It has the size of a BlackBerry, and uses zinc as a fuel to charge your gadgets.
OTEC: Lockheed Martin Studies Ocean Energy Production Tech
Lockheed Martin, specialized in building rockets and aircraft engines, is surprisingly taking over this niche of energy production. They spent the last year studying how to make a big and long fiberglass pipe to sink it into the ocean.
New Korean Li-Ion Battery Lasting 8 Times More
South Korean professor Jaephil Cho (and, of course, a team of his students) from Hanyung University have developed a lithium-ion battery that lasts eight times longer than the actual models do.
Quantumsphere, on the other hand, presented last september a Li-Ion battery with a new that lasts five times more than traditional ones.
New Electron Cooling Discovery to Extract More Energy from Solar Cells
Do you know that electrons can be "cooled"? The cooling of an electron, in lay language, is the transitory state in which the electron passes from a high-oscillation state to a low-oscillation, normal state. The high oscillation state is given by an external stimulus, i.e. electric voltage.
Hydrogen to be Produced Cheaply With 19th Century Invention
G.D. Botto, an Italian inventor and physicist, performing experiments on a technique for hydrogen generation, has discovered that a chain of iron and platinum wires, wrapped around a wooden stick and alternately connected as thermocouples, can be used to convert a temperature difference into an electric voltage.
Electricity to be Generated From Garbage Landfills Using Plasma
Unlike incinerators, which use combustion to break down garbage, there is no burning, or oxidation, in this process. The heat from plasma converters causes pyrolysis, a process in which organic matter breaks down and decomposes. Plasma torches can operate in airtight vessels. Combustion requires oxidization; pyrolysis does not.
