Scientists from Columbia University have built a device that generates electricity from evaporating water.
Over the years people have found many different ways to generate renewable energy, some more conventional than others. Most of these means (with exception of solar)...
In five years, your smartphone could be powered completely differently. Sony has revealed that is developing new sulfur rechargeable battery technology that would replace lithium-ion (li-ion) units. The goal is to have them ready for the market in 2020.
By using...
Lead from recycled car batteries can be used to make perovskite solar cells. MIT researchers have the recipe.
The past decade has seen such development in technologies, that I doubt anyone was able to predict it at the start. What is...
Not only will batteries be powered differently in the future, they’ll probably look different too.
Origami, the Japanese craft of paper folding, can be used to create everything from cranes to dragons. An engineer from Binghamton University has found a...
Eco-friendly housing development in Thailand stores excess solar power, generated from rooftops, in the form of hydrogen.
It is great to see that improvements in solar panel technologies, and drop in commercial prices, have made more and more home owners...
With the clock ticking on some critical credits, U.S. Congress agreed to extend them. Renewable energy tax credits that were set to expire in 2016 have now been extended for another five years.
The tax credits were for investment in solar...
More hydrogen fuel cell vehicles may be on the way. Audi’s parent company, Volkswagen, did not have a great year. With its emissions cheating scandal going on and on in the press, the image of the brand, and its group,...
Powering a country on renewable sources is possible. The Costa Rican Electricity Institute (ICE) announced that the country achieved “99 percent renewable electricity generation” this past year. For 285 days of the year, the country’s grids were powered completely by...
New style rubbish bin, called Seabin, developed by two enthusiastic Australian surfers, is the latest technology to clean up ocean trash.
Ocean trash is a serious environmental problem, which affects one of the biggest ecological habitats on our planet and...
London has a new kind of taxi in town. Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles operated by a company called Green Tomato Cars, started to pick up passengers soon after COP21 (the Paris agreement) was signed by world leaders, officially recognizing the...
