The release of next-generation Nest Learning Thermostat was announced yesterday by the leading manufacturer Nest Labs Inc. Not even a year after the official introduction of the product on the global market, the new model is already available but...
The BMW Active Tourer Concept vehicle is a hybrid vehicle, with a twist. Instead of the hybrid drive-train being mated with an inline four-cylinder engine, it will be mated with an inline three-cylinder turbocharged engine.
The new concept “is powered...
In 1992, I built my first PC, the same year Microsoft Windows 3.1 and Works hit the market. Bill Clinton became President of the US, and Space Shuttle Endeavour made its successful maiden voyage into space. Ahead of its...
V3Solar has launched an innovative design to the conventional flat solar cells resulting to a twenty-fold increase in its output, owing to its concentrator lenses, conical shape, and revolving assembly.
The conical shape with 56o angle of the one-meter high,...
Gravity holds us all on Earth. It is a force that's still being misunderstood for some reason, a phenomenon whose true explanations lie in quantum physics not yet discovered by mankind. Some say it could even be harvested for...
The U.S Department of Energy has recently provided funding for development of a new strain of a popular tree species that can perform nocturnal photosynthesis. The sum of $14 million has been given to a team of biofuel researchers...
The amount of biomass from plants used for biofuel is highly dependable on their tolerance to drought. With climate warming at alarming rates, more and more scientists are urged to look for alternative species that can survive in areas,...
The problem of excess energy storage might just have been resolved, as, according to the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE), liquid air is a strong competitor of batteries and hydrogen. Wind farms generate electricity at any time, therefore, when...
With the increasingly strict standards regarding fuel economy and emissions, auto manufacturers have been making plenty of advancements in automobile technology. Over the last five years, the internal combustion engine has undergone more change than in the last...
Simbol Materials of Pleasanton, California has proposed a new method of acquiring lithium for batteries by extracting the element from post-production brine solutions of geothermal power plants.
Lithium is an expensive key component of batteries, hybrid vehicles, and electric vehicles;...
