General Motors Saves Power and Greenhouse Gas Emissions With New Painting Technique
Chevrolet is seemingly seeking to implement more and more environmentally-friendly technologies inside its factories. The latest innovation is one that will reduce the carbon...
Miniature "Flying Carpet" Made of Conductive Plastic Developed at Princeton
Researchers at Princeton University have come up with a 10cm (4in) piece of plastic that has taken flight in their laboratory.
Using tiny conducting threads...
SeaTwirl – New Offshore Wind Turbine Produces Cheap Electricity
Many scientists and researchers are trying to find the best solutions to harness offshore winds and generate clean electricity. All have concluded that the...
New Smart Windows Reduce Air-Conditioning And Heating Costs
Scientists have recently developed a new "smart" window system that, according to them, is capable of reflecting the sun's rays away during summer time...
Koomey's Law Predicts Computer Energy Efficiency Doubling Every 18 Months
If you remember, in August I published an article about a researcher from Stanford who had discovered that the electricity consumption of datacenters worldwide...
Intel Designs Ultra-Efficient Processor That Runs on Small Solar Cell
Intel researchers have just managed to tweak a Pentium-based processor in such a degree that they made the thing be able to run on...
World's Smallest Nano-Motor Powered by Electricity for First Time in History
Now this is not our typical green scientific breakthrough, but it may one day change the way we consume energy and improve electric motors...
The Cheapest LED Light Bulb Yet to be Launched in India: See How Little...
Not only the Chinese are able to make things cheap. Now, a consortium of two Indian companies have announced their latest product: an LED...
New Photo-Catalytic Fuel Cell Can Both Clean Wastewater and Produce Electricity
People have so far created many water purifying devices and we always presented them here on The Green Optimistic. Now, Yanbiao Liu and his...
Spintronics and Straintronics – Enabled Circuit Promises Huge Power Savings
A team of researchers from Virginia Commonwealth University has invented the most power-friendly integrated circuit so far, by combining spintronics and straintronics. The circuit...
