Solar Impulse, the world's lightest electric plane, powered entirely by solar panels, will take off this spring and head for Morocco, where it will mark the start of building the country's five solar complexes that will generate a total...
When you look at it, you know it's a refueling station, but not a classic one: where are the wires, the tanks and...well, everything else? That's precisely it: the Honda Hydrogen Station at Saitama Prefectural Office in Japan is...
You probably learned in high school what the piezoelectric effect is: a phenomenon where an electromotive force is generated by applying mechanical stress to a material.
So far, piezoelectric devices used a material called lead zirconate titanate (PZT). However, PZT...
If you remember, we've been talking about Apple's new and bold green statement recently. At that time we've been telling you about the plans to power their new North Carolina data center with solar panels and biogas. Now, the...
For the recycling fans but not only, there's a new way of recycling plastic. Actually, just the plastic bags, but it's a start! Researchers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory have come a long way - they now take...
Running an electric car on electricity is something pretty common (and logical), but running a gasoline car on electricity is something of fantastic realm. Still, a team of UCLA scientists have succeeded doing this - they produced high-grade alcohol...
Already being used in many places around the world, the idea of using human body heat to keep buildings warm during cold seasons gains popularity very fast. After many studies engineers concluded that excess body heat could slash carbon...
Let me ask you a simple question: how much would you spend for a bike? Would you buy a €5,499 ($7,100) bike? Waiting for you to decide, I'm telling you that Specialized, a company specialized in bikes, has just launched...
"Time will tell," they say. Well, time has told good things about a planar solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) used in industrial purposes, which has recently completed and even exceeded 40,000 hours of continuous operation.
The fuel cell, originally designed...
With the advent of smart grids, the world will be a better place, at least in what concerns power outages. Electric cars will take over the role of buffering the extra electricity and, when in their garages, they will...
