Superconductors typically find their way into power generation and transmission applications, where losses are unacceptable or great amounts of current are needed to flow.
When cooled to a critical temperature, superconductors offer near zero resistance to electrical flow, eliminating heat...
Bureaucracy could be the reason that it's taken some three years for the White House to finally get its solar panel upgrades, or is it thirty-something years and could it be something else?
In 2010, a couple of years after...
RWE, one of the leading electricity and gas companies in Europe, has recently announced their plans to close down some of their gas and coal-fired power plants with up to 3.1 GW of generated capacity. As a main reason...
Thomas Edison, who tinkered with hundreds of items for the filament of the first electric light bulb, never considered bacteria as a source of light, as in the Biobulb.
We may already be familiar with the humble firefly, angler fish,...
As the number of fracking sites increases with numerous new planning permissions for drilling being issued almost every day, the concerns over safety and water contamination trigger even more protests and debates.
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking in short, is a...
A team of researchers from North Carolina State University developed self-healing solar cells, which reinvigorate themselves as their performance decreases with time in a very effective, cheap and environmentally friendly manner.
Each cell is based on organic systems and has...
Luxury cars don't have to be gas guzzlers in order to deliver power and performance. Would most people interested in vehicles like the Audi A4 even consider it if it couldn't get out of its own way on the...
With recent claims by consumers that their hybrid vehicles aren't living up to the standard set on the Environmental Protection Agency / Department of Energy Fuel Economy and Environment label, some updating of the testing rules needs to...
Last year, some 50,000 electric vehicles were sold, most of them in California. This is good news for the California air, but not so good news for the California power grid.
Now, there is enough capacity to handle the additional...
Scientists from University of Montana and University of Wyoming applied a unique sampling method to collect data from deep into the ice core of the Greenland ice sheet. Their findings not only explain how the the ice body functions,...
