IDT's Solar Powered TFT Proves Itself Cheaper and Greener
Integrated Digital Technologies Inc wants to start production of TFT displays that have solar cells embedded in them. The panels will be called "iScreen", i coming from Interactive.
Nano-Sized Gold Electricity Generators Moving a Step Ahead
Scientists, in collaboration with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, have researched the rotation of molecules on a fixed surface. They want to develop nanoscale-level rotor-based electricity generators and electric motors.
Sharp's 300mW Ultrathin Solar Panel Designed for Greener Gadgets
Solar powered cell phones are more and more looked for in the past few months. Many cell phone manufacturers release solar powered versions of their gadgets. Reacting on this (or anticipating a bubble), Sharp made solar cells specially designed for use in cell phones.
Helmholtz Principle-Based Innovation Reduces Aircraft Consumption by 20%
Scientists discovered a new method to reduce an airliner's consumption and fuel costs by redirecting the air to waggle sideways around the wings. They are doing this with tiny air powered jets, making the air flow back and forth over the wing.
SolarWindow Empowers Your Windows to Produce Electricity
New Energy Technologies Inc developed an organic solar array that is both transparent and produces electricity. They made use of conductive polymers, a thousand times thinner than human hair, assembled them together, and - voilà ! Here's a working solar cell less then 1/4 the size of a grain of rice, producing electricity just like its big silicon brother, only cheaper.
Romanian TV Station Reports Invention of Vinegar Powered Car
I have heard about cars running on electricity, on biofuels, and other kinky stuff, but this one surpasses them all. Two brothers, Petru and Gheorghe Bordeianu, from Bacau, Romania, have invented an engine that runs totally on a combination of vinegar, water and a certain "soft drink".
New Type of Ultrathin and Flexible Solar Cells Discovered
Silicon photovoltaic cells are preferred in today's market conditions and technological implementations because they are cheap, silicon is abundant and the ongoing research has made them more and more efficient. Still, manufacturing the PV cells is very energy consuming, and they are very fragile and prone to breaking in the most mildly hostile situations (hailstorms).
Waterproof Solar Powered Cell Phone by KDDI and Sharp
The waterproof solar cell phone will be sold starting with June by Japan's No.2 wireless provider, KDDI Corp. The gadget had been developed by Sharp Corp and promises carbon dioxide reduction by 80% charging from sunlight.
Turning CO2 into Methanol Achieved Through an Eco-Friendly Process
If we could somehow invent a reliable technology that could "eat out" all the excess CO2 from the atmosphere in a large scale, we could turn back to where we started from a hundred years ago, reducing global warming and the change of climate.
DIY Solar Cell from Tea and Donuts
The Holy Grail of energy has been, is, and will be the solar power. Numerous solutions of converting solar power have existed along the centuries, and people have always used the Sun to power things up, except for the last hundred years or so - that's the main reason we all got into troubles with mother nature.
