New Wastewater Treatment Plant From Siemens Saves Energy by Using Bacterial Heat

Siemens has recently invented a new biodrying process that can convert sewage sludge into usable elements - all of this while saving a great...

More Efficient Lighting Not Necessarily Meaning Less Energy Consumption, Paper Says

Two Sandia University researchers, Jeff Tsao and Harry Saunders have recently underlined what you may never have thought of LED lights. Historically, when a...

Thermal Mass Construction Revolutionizes Green Residential Architecture

Thermal mass construction (TMC) operates on the principle that it is more energy-efficient to keep a relatively massive structure at a steady temperature than...

Comeback of Vacuum Tube Technology: The Ultimate in Transistor Speed

Electron movements in silicon transistors are limited by collisions and scattering. What if the bumps are removed and the electrons can travel freely in...

New High-Performance Water Desalination Technique Uses Nanoporous Graphene

About 97 percent of the earth’s water is found in seas and oceans, yet only a fraction of the world’s potable water comes from...

How to Make Biodiesel at Home With Supermarket-Procurable Chemicals

Hailed or blasphemed, the biodiesel is the cheapest and greenest alternative to the driver who doesn't have anything but a diesel-drinking car, vegetable oil,...

Thermoelectric Generator: How to Build One

A thermoelectric generator is a semiconductor device that transforms the heat difference between its two layers into electricity. It belongs to a class of materials called...

Infrared-Harvesting Solar Cells Made Entirely from Carbon Invented at MIT

MIT researcher Michael Strano, previously involved in projects like thermopower waves, carbon nanotube energy storage and others related to carbon nanotubes, discovered a new...

How to Produce Hydrogen From an Aluminum Soda Can and Water

Here's how you can produce hydrogen to power cars, homes, or even toys. Hydrogen is the cleanest energy carrier in the universe, and is...

SeaOrbiter: The First Ever Futuristic Marine Research Vessel Two-Thirds Underwater

So much of what the oceans contain is still unknown to us today and considering they make up 80% of our planet, it's a...