Hydrogen Fuel Cell Flying Car Reaches 400 Miles of Range

Massachusetts startup Alaka’i has designed a flying car that the company touts as the “first air mobility vehicle powered by hydrogen fuel cells”. On...

Pedal Power: Amsterdam Airport Bikes Charge Your Gadgets

At the Schiphol airport in Amsterdam, pedal powering your gadgets is not a problem. You can jump on a stationary bike and charge the...

How to Beat the Agony of a Dying Phone Battery

Phones and tablets are our main computers these days. We rely on them. Manufacturers limit the device's performance once battery capacity has...
The Latest Velkess Prototype KERS

Cheaper Flywheel Energy Storage System for Homes, on Kickstarter

Velkess, a startup run by Bill Gray, uses fiberglass on a lightweight frame to prove his cheaper kinetic energy recovery system can work in something like a renewable home installation. When...

The global transition to clean energy – explained in 12 charts

A report released by Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21) goes into that question in considerable detail. The Renewables Global Status...

Solar Stirling Engine Efficiency Records Broken by Ripasso Energy

Solar Stirling engine efficiency has been topped this year by Ripasso Energy, a solar technology company based in Sweden. They have designed a Solar stirling...

World’s First Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion Plant to be Built Off Chinese Shore

US aerospace company Lockheed Martin have signed an agreement with Reignwood Group, a resort developer based in Beijing, China, to construct an Ocean Thermal...

Revolutionary Roll Out Solar Panel Invented by Renovagen

Flexible solar panels by Renovagen can be rolled up and transported pretty much everywhere. It is safe to say that solar power has been on...

31% Efficient Stirling Engines Used to Convert 1.5MW of Arizona Solar Power

Stirling engines are known to mankind for about 200 years but they are not so widely used today, except maybe for the pacemakers and long-distance robotic spacecrafts. This will soon change as 60 stirling engines will be used in Phoenix, Arizona, to harvest solar power which will be converted into electricity.

Innovative Device Harnesses Heat at Night

New device generates electricity from darkness. Winter is fast approaching, days are getting shorter, nights are getting colder. It is inevitable that even the most...