Here's a good question for all you ecologists out there: what do we do with the carbon dioxide emissions after capturing them? As it frequently happens, MIT took up the challenge and came with a "golden"eff idea: a hybrid-copper-gold...
The increasing CO2 concentration in air is having a profound impact on corals in the most unforeseen ways. It had been previously thought that CO2 would affect the calcium structure of the coral skeleton, but an international team of...
A new copper-graphene composite has been found to be the best solution so far for cooling electronic devices. It's known that, once they pass a temperature threshold, electronics don't behave efficiently, and that is the #1 reason for them...
Energy from thin air... who wouldn't want to have that? A study led by Fernando Galembeck, Ph.D, at University of Campinas in Campinas, Brazil, reveals that you can actually harvest huge amounts static electricity from the atmosphere.
Galembeck and his...
You know it's only a matter of time before all cars go electric; but what about trucks? Now that's a good question! Apparently, that's about to happen too at some point, since now we have the truck Mitsubishi Fuso...
Imagine we could also harvest solar power while it's cloudy outside, and those clouds won't make much of a difference. That could be possible due to a new generation of perfectly-black solar cells, the blackest possible, which can actually...
A project involving satellites, solar panels and microwave power transmitters is in works in Santa Maria, CA, where John Mankins, from Artemis Innovation Management Solutions is studying how on earth we could capture solar power in space and transmit...
To make people embrace solar and give up fossil fuels means solar has to be cheap. How cheap? According to the U.S. Department of Energy, 6 cents per kilowatt-hour cheap. This is how the Halotechnics company, a solar-thermal startup...
A new way to have sunlight produce hydrogen has been perfected in a University of Delaware lab. The inventor, Erik Koepf, has designed a reactor that works at ultra-high temperatures and that uses zinc oxide and water to produce...
Hydrostor, a Canadian company based in Toronto, wants to make CAES (compressed air energy storage) become a solution for every city in the world that has a deep water body around. The same technique had been used before in...
