Strataclear, a new technology developed by Ryncosmos, aims to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by sequestering it into disposable solid material cartridges. Strataclear can be scaled for use in homes or vehicles.
Recent legislation regarding the future of vehicle carbon dioxide emissions have put the...
The automobile industry has been instrumental in the improvement of GDP of the US economy. Some of the leading auto companies like Ford, General Motors and Chrysler had done a good business in the last year.
Compared to the sales...
The concept of vertical farming is extremely popular. Architects and engineers have started designing tall buildings intended to function as urban food centers in the attempt to implement vertical farming. Many horticulturists, however, find the concept ludicrous and believe...
Germany is about to start a new phase in its energy revolution with a project that is meant to use captured carbon dioxide, use solar and wind power to produce hydrogen from water, and combine all of them to...
Makani Power, the company who made an airborne wind turbine a few years ago, has been acquired by Google for an undisclosed sum. Google had already invested about $15 million in them and if they bought the idea it...
Originally commissioned in 2009, the PlanetSolar Tûranor was designed to see how successful a boat powered entirely by solar power would perform.
After a successful circumnavigation of the globe in 2012, the PlanetSolar Tûranor spent a few months in port...
Very few people have the vision and business sense to get any invention out of the garage and into production. Nowhere is this more true than the budding electric vehicle market.
Case in point: Tesla Model S and Fisker Karma,...
Aside from energy efficiency, energy recovery could be the next best way to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Thermoelectric devices use waste heat to generate electricity.
Depending on whether you are looking at an internal combustion engine or a manufacturing plant,...
Hydrogen fuel cells generate electricity directly from hydrogen and generate zero carbon dioxide emissions, unlike conventional methods of electricity generation.
In order to accomplish this feat, a catalyst in the hydrogen fuel cell starts and maintains the reaction. Hydrogen in...
We've been talking a lot about Kinetic Energy Recover Systems (KERS) lately, and even presented an actual implementation by Volvo. Now the French have put such a system into an electric vehicle called Twizy (about which we've been too...
