Last week, the Chinese energy company Hanergy announced their purchase of Miasole, a thin-film solar company, based in the Silicon Valley. Although experts in the field are a bit skeptical about the faith of this technology considering the popularity of the...
For the most part, when we consider carbon-dioxide emissions, we deal in averages and estimates. Because the problem is so broad, averages make it somewhat easier to deal with.
Statistics, though, mean nothing to the individual. While it's good...
Rechargeable batteries are the mainstay of portable devices, such as mobile phones and laptops, to electric vehicles. A major challenge for the development of these technologies has always been battery density, that is, how much electricity storage, watt-hours ...
Switching from nuclear power to renewables has been a topic of discussion for quite some time now in German media. The main concern is that this transition might not be possible without having to dig into the power storage...
According to the United Nations, human induced climate change has started in the 1800s. Researchers at Utrecht University (The Netherlands), however, are convinced that emissions of greenhouse gas date way back to the times of the Roman Empire and...
Physicists from North Carolina State University claim that by controlling the way “mixing” occurs between the solar cell domains, we can boost their efficiency.
According to new research, within a polymer-based solar cell, the speed of movement of energy particles...
Imagine you have a lamp that runs on solar-power and not only provides light during those late-night hours, but also charges your cell phone or USB devices, and can serve as an electricity-free sound amplifier for your MP3 player...
Electric Vehicles are still working on their selling points. They have limited range, averaging less than 100 miles, unless you spring for a luxury model, like the Tesla Model X starting at $80,000. EVs are also known for...
The US Power Grid is supported by a number of power-generation technologies, coal, oil, wind, hydro, nuclear, to name a few. According to the US Environmental Protection Agency , 3.9 million gigawatt-hours of electricity was generated by all...
Natural resources are not always renewable, petroleum for example. Raw petroleum can be refined into at least twenty different commodities, including gasoline, diesel fuel, paraffin, sulfur, propane, and petrochemicals, which are further refined to produce commodities such as polyester,...
