Apple to Develop Self-Charging Solar Devices
Apple wants to develop a solar technology for its devices (laptops, ipods, etc). They want to incorporate solar panels in the devices' screen, so...
$150,000 Sportscar Runs on Water and Gasoline
Ronn Motor Company has proven what thousands of amateur energy enthusiasts from around the world keep researching in their garages for years: that it can run a gasoline sportscar (Scorpio) on both hydrogen and gasoline, mixing them on a 30 to 40 percent ratio.
EnerDel to Make Longer Lasting, Cheaper Li-Ion Batteries by 2010
EnerDel, a company who has been on the market since 2004, makes serious promises about more efficient lithium-Ion batteries (LIB) to be manufactured in the very near future. They're planning to make 300,000 of them by 2010. They also say that their batteries keep their charge capacity for up to 300,000 cycles, or 10 years of life.
Magenn’s Floating Wind Turbines: Free Power Anywhere
The MARS wind turbine is lifted by helium, and it floats at an altitude of 1000 feet above the ground where it can easily capture any kind of winds, whether they're as slow as 4mph or as fast as 60mph. Speed is not a big problem here.
New Solar Panels: 80% Efficient
A team of scientists from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has been developing a brand new solar energy technology that is about to revolutionize the way we collect and distribute solar energy.
StatoilHydro to Build World’s First Floating Wind Turbine
The Norwegian state oil company StatoilHydro is about to build "Hywind", the world's first functional floating wind turbine, and to test it for two...
New Way of Storing Hydrogen for Vehicles Discovered!
Hydrogen could play a role in replacing fossil fuels for transportation in the future, but researchers must develop a way to store and release...
Cheaper Fuel Cell Material Discovered: 50% more power
Several researchers from the MIT succeeded in making a new kind of fuel cell. This one is a Direct Methanol Fuel Cell (DMFC), and...
BioWave – free electricity from mimicking sea plants
A long time ago, nature set its oceans and the living things in them. There were plants residing on the bottom of the ocean,...
Solarial: Solar Power for Disasters
I recently found a website providing some design details to make a solar powered balloon, or zeppelin to assist the rescue teams in case of a natural calamity, such as the one in Burma, the earthquake in China, and so on.
