No matter where you happen to drive, considering an electric vehicle may not be very appealing, once you consider charging time and limited range. After all, if you “run out of juice,” you can't just stop at any...
One of the first ways we harnessed static electricity was to drag our shoes on the carpeted floor in the dry air of winter, then touch our brother's ear. In this little experiment, thousands of volts discharged from the...
Well-known software company, Microsoft, in its efforts toward sustainable data centers, has teamed up with Danbury Connecticut's FuelCell Energy to test a combination of energy technologies.
“With the demand for renewable energy resources outstripping available power supplies today, Microsoft is...
Researchers from Southern Cross University found excess quantities of greenhouse gases in the area near Tara gas field in Queensland, Australia’s biggest coal seam gas field. Environmental scientists call for freezing the plans for hydraulic fracturing in the region...
Scientists at Rice University Laboratory for Nanophotonics (LANP) have discovered an effective way to use nanoparticles to convert solar energy into steam.
ACS Nano published an article on the revolutionary technology that reveals the 24% overall energy efficiency. Surprisingly, however,...
Researchers from Columbia University's Engineering School, working in Ghana with Waste Enterprisers Ltd., the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), and the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly decided to commemorate this year’s World Toilet Day (19th of November) by...
Could stunt kites be the future of energy? Could high altitude kites replace the tried-and-true wind turbine?
A Berlin-based wind energy developer is betting YES. NTS GmbH is attempting to harness the wind with high flying kites and convert the...
During the ongoing international exhibition in Zhuhai, “Airshow China 2012”, The European Aeronautic Defense and Space (EADS), a parent company of aviation major Airbus, signed a contract with ENN, one of the largest Chinese companies in the natural gas...
A nanostructure inspired by the corneas of night–flying moths provided a triple-junction solar cell with broadband (400 nm to 1000 nm) and omnidirectional (at any incident angle) harvesting of sunlight.
Antireflection coatings are applied on top of solar cells in...
The United States currently has enough wind turbines to power 12 million homes and is growing by leaps and bounds, and wind energy is clearly the future of alternative energy. But few know there is a seedy side to...
