Plugless Power in Whytheville, VA will use a US Department of Energy grant to implement its wireless inductive charging receivers on electric vehicles.
Electric vehicles could really get going if there was a way to easily charge them whether...
Hybrid vehicles we're looking forward to from BMW, the i8 and ActiveTourer, and they both have one thing in common, a three-cylinder engine.
Engines are getting smaller and smaller in order to meet with increasingly strict fuel economy and emissions...
Most energy systems are extremely inefficient, but flexible thermoelectric generators could recover some of that lost energy and put it back into the system.
If we've ever seen steam billowing from a cooling tower or felt the hot exhaust coming...
Proteins on the surface of microbes can be harnessed for electrical power, according to a study in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Dr. Tom Clarke and researchers at the University of East Anglia created a synthetic...
Real time monitoring of lithium (Li) ions in rechargeable batteries is now possible thanks to a new technology developed by the Japanese giant in manufacturing of consumer electronics, Hitachi Maxell Ltd. The company also developed a Li-ion battery with 1.6 times higher...
A new building facade technology by the firm Strategic Science Consult (SSC), promises to generate electricity and produce heat from algae.
The green building is located in Hamburg, Germany, and it is one of the 16 buildings included in “The International Building Exhibition”...
New research in the field of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) is being conducted at the TU Darmstadt's Institute for Lighting Technologies, with a main focus on human perception, health and wellbeing.
The main advantage of LEDs, and the reason why they...
US carbon emissions have fallen quite a bit as a result of fracking. Good news? There’s a catch 22.
Energy companies across the country are in the process of extracting gas from shale rock using hydraulic fracturing techniques, otherwise known...
One concern of electric vehicle owners is battery lifespan, which could cost many thousands of dollars to replace, but a new development by Rice University could increase the lifespan of these expensive components.
Rice University researchers have been looking into...
Boyan Slat, a 19-year-old Aerospace Engineering student at TU Delft designed a device that could clean the ocean from plastic trash.
The concept called Ocean Cleanup Array, combines long floating booms with processing platforms,which can collect and separate trash.
Plastics are...
