How Big Data Helps Mitigate Climate Change

In the past decade, the increasing availability of data and computational resources led to the merger of traditional statistics, computer science and visualization under...
Estrima Birò Personal Electric Vehicle - You Take the Battery With You

Estrima Birò – Italian Solution to Electric Vehicle Range Anxiety, and Congestion!

For many people, who have been convinced of electric vehicles' power and torque, not to mention fuel economy and total lack of emissions, range...

FRP Rebar Helps Save Mountains from Turning into Molehills

Reinforcing bars or rebars are necessary to keep our structures up.  Engineers usually use steel rebars because of cost, but some have explored the...

Solar Impulse Announces The Route for The First Ever Solar Powered Trip Around the...

The guys from Solar Impulse have just revealed the record winning route, which they intend to travel by the new and improved Solar Impulse...

Hydrophobic Coating Inspired by Water Ferns Could Make Ships Consume 10 Percent Less

Water ferns have tiny hairs that are superhydrophobic. Their properties, if applied in real life conditions to a sail boat, for example, could lead to a reduction of up to 10 percent of the boat's fuel consumption by reducing friction.

Anyone can Build this DIY Cheap Solar Energy Concentrator

If you're looking for a cost-effective way to get some DIY solar energy right now, we may have just the solution for you. Go.Sol, a...

Beautiful Floating Platforms May Supply Wind and Wave Power To Copenhagen

There is only one thing better than a facility that can harvest both tidal and wind energy, and that is when this facility is...

ATC Solar Curve – A Wireless Solar Charger for Electric Buses

Just as EVs have charging stations of their own, it's only natural that buses should have that, too. The only thing is that keeping...

New Research Showing Fabrication Pattern for Higher-Temperature Superconductors

Researchers from Princeton University, Brookhaven National Laboratory and the Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry in Japan, using Scanning Tunneling Microscopy, have discovered how in a superconducting material, at a nano-scale level, regions with stronger superconductivity helped regions with weaker superconductivity survive when exposed to higher temperature.

Sony's New Technology Generates Electricity From Shredded Paper

The Japanese electronics giant Sony has announced the development of a new technology that produces energy from shredded paper. At a fair about environmental products,...