Electric vehicles have a lot going for them, most notably minimal fuel costs and minimal carbon-dioxide emissions. Unfortunately, they don't seem to hitting the mainstream for apprehensions regarding range, recharge time, and up-front expenses.
The last place we would...
The fastest way to recharge an electric vehicle is not on an L3 480V charger, over 30 minutes, but to simply swap out the battery, which takes about five minutes. Better Place Mobility Services, an EV battery-swapping company,...
In its plan to increase biofuel share to 10% by 2020, the European Union (EU) seems to favor the interests of profit-minded big industrial companies rather than the reduction of carbon footprint and fight against climate change.
This is the...
Nearly one million people could benefit from a new project in Oregon, where deep waters would be turned into steam by deep geothermal activity of dormant volcanoes and the turbines will be powered without producing greenhouse gases.
Altarock, the company...
A sustainable paradise is about to emerge on the Hawaiian island of Lanai, thanks to Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle. He is planning to invest $500 million in organic farms, solar power plants and electric cars, pleasing the 3,000...
Nanowire-based solar cells are being developed by a startup in Massachusetts, Bandgap Engineering, in the hopes of lowering costs while increasing power of solar cells twice the current average power generated, from 15 to 38%.
The said project, however, is...
By pyrolyzing biomass such as cornstalks and sawdust and feeding the oil product to the microbes, a new generation of biofuels is being produced. However, the microbes are facing some difficulties which the researchers from Iowa State University are...
For the first time ever, a reversed order of production of bioethanol and sugar was developed indulging a fourfold increase in sugar yield owing to the newly transformed yeast.
A group of Japanese researchers from the Asahi Group Holdings Ltd...
Solar powered technologies might increase in number if nanotechnological developments from University of Texas, prove effective.
This will become possible if the Team of scientists consisting of Dr. Anton Malko, Dr. Yuri Gartstein, and Dr. Yves Chabal, succeed in their...
Charging the Li-ion battery of your favorite electronic device, might just have become that much easier. According to scientists at University of Warwick, an organic photovoltaic solar cell (OPV) can do this even at a low level light and...
