Germanium Hydride to Become High Temperature Viable Superconductor
The evolution of energy storage is not enough if we don't also evolve the energy transportation methods. That's why superconductors are not only good for us, but are also necessary in some applications where heat and energy loss, in general, have no place.
New OLED Discovery Gives Light Quality of Incandescent Bulb
University of Florida researchers are on their way to discover the maximum efficiency of 100 lumen/W from a new type of LED lighting, having the advantages of both an incandescent bulb (light quality) and a fluorescent bulb (very low consumption).
Energizer to Release Their First Portable Solar-Powered Battery Charger
This gadget looks like a clamshell cellphone, where the keypad section is replaced by battery slots and the display by solar panels. Some features of this battery-charging gadget will be...
DIY: How to Build a $1 Magnetic Motor With Some Screws
What you are going to see in this video is nothing you don't know. In fact, I urge any weird-science reader to try and make the device from the video below, respecting the pictured details. I'll make it myself from a hard drive plate and a used scotch tape support. Let's see how much time it works, and if it can be improved.
Fridge Powered by Heat Invented at Stanford
We have been talking a while ago about refrigerators that needed no electricity or that were powered by the Sun, through evaporation, helping poor countries with a cool place to keep their food. Now, venture capitalist Adam Grosser teamed up with some Stanford scientists to create refrigerator that really doesn't need to be plugged in anything but the Sun.
New MIT Thin Film Solar Cells Brag 50% More Efficiency
MIT researchers invented new and improved thin film solar cells that present 50% more efficiency, while being much more cheap than classic solar cells. Their price is due to using less silicon than conventional solar cells.
New Nano-Device Could Power Your MP3 Player from Surrounding Sound
Tahir Cagin, from the Texas A&M University, recently discovered that a specific type of piezoelectric material could convert sound waves into electric current 100 percent more efficient than current devices, when it is manufactured at a very small size - 21 nanometers.
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.
Your Home`s Excess Heat Could Get Recovered by New Cheap Machine
This article doesn't talk about huge producers of energy, or doesn't mention the use of any prime matter to create energy, but instead it focuses on recycled one. Ener-G-Rotors, a company based in Schenectady, NY, is developing a heat recycler that can work with lower quantities of heat, under 150°C, unlike those of the competitors, aimed only to the higher-class, industrial energy producing stations.
New Type of Sand to Store Methane Safely and Efficiently
Hydrogen gas is the most clean-burning gas known to man. Yet methane, even if it's a sibling of petrol, got its way through the alternative fuels industry, and it is more widely used nowadays, as fuel prices oscillate between skyscrapers and small houses. Methane is also one of the cleanest burning fuels, and that makes it viable for a while. Methane reservoirs still exist all around the world, and there's plenty of it to help make a clean transition to hydrogen.
