CO2 Capturing System to be Installed at Norwegian Cement Factory

A new and innovative CO2 capturing system is to be installed in Norway, at a Norcem cement producing plant in Brevik. Developed by Aker...

Plants That Glow In The Dark Might Replace Home Lighting Systems

The latest innovation in the field of genetic modification is set to create a unique kind of bioluminescent plants, which have the potential to...
Graphene Has Very Unique Properties

Graphene and Monolayers For More Efficient Solar Cells

With all the talk about nanomaterials making up more efficient solar cells, most of the focus has been on graphene and its unique properties....
Iron, Produced some 13,500 Times More than Platinum, Discovered to be Excellent (and Cheap) Hydrogen Fuel Electrolytic Catalyst

Hydrogen Fuel Generation – Breakthrough Catalyst Investigated in India

Hydrogen fuel used in hydrogen fuel cells, as a replacement for natural gas, or even in an internal combustion engine, burns clean and emits...
Hybrid Solar Cell Generates Electricity from Light and Sound

Nanotech Hybrid Solar Cell Generates Electricity from Both Light and Sound

A new nanotech hybrid solar cell developed by Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology and Sungkyunkwan University in South Korea, generates electricity from light as...
Honda's Hydrogen Fuel Cell Stack

Honda Testing Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles With Vehicle to Grid Technology

Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles and plug-in vehicles are both essentially electric vehicles, but hydrogen refuels in minutes, compared to hours required to recharge a...
Hyundai E4U Personal Electric Vehicle Out On the Road

Hyundai E4U Concept – Egg-Shaped Personal Electric Vehicle

Personal electric vehicles aren't so new, and by now we're probably used to seeing the elderly and infirm getting around on electric wheelchairs and...
Super Fuel Efficient Vehicle gets 3,587mpg!

Shell Eco-Marathon Americas Yields Super Fuel Efficient [3,587mpg] Reliant Robin

When we think fuel efficient, we might think hybrid or electric and this maxes out our brains at a little over 100mpge, so how...
Itinerary of the PlanetSolar DeepWater Project Aboard the Solar Boat, Tûranor

Tûranor Solar Boat Has a New Mission Studying Climate Change

What started as a proof-of-concept – PlanetSolar's Tûranor solar boat recently circumnavigated the globe – is now setting sail again on a research mission...
Deep-Sea Thermal Vent, Home of Chemosynthetic Bacteria Pyrococcus Furiosus

Synthetic Fuel from Carbon Dioxide by Tweaking “Pyrococcus Furiosus” Bacteria

Biofuels, synthetic fuels, are made from plants that use photosynthesis to extract carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, but what if we could remove the...