One challenge organic radical batteries have faced is to be under 0.7mm thin, so they could fit into credit cards, electronic paper devices and so on. I know it may sound normal that 0.7mm is slim enough, but rest...
Technology in renewable energy advances all the time. For South Africa it means that, as an investor, you don't have to go by foot anymore to see if it's worth putting money in a wind power project. Since yesterday,...
I accidentally stumbled upon this three-year-old video today, watched it and realized that the guy has just demonstrated what many people don't believe or want to believe: that magnetic motors exist, work and can provide useful effects to humanity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zavp87bKgnQ
This...
Just when we were getting used to silicon solar cells, efficient – true, but so expensive, here comes a new discovery of solar cells that could turn the industry upside down. We're talking about CZTS solar cells, which stands...
Although the range problem for electric vehicles has somehow been resolved, what do you with the heating issue? As you may know, if some of that needed electricity goes to the driver cabin in the form of heat, the...
Why would anyone want a database of energy harvesting? Well, for one, such a database helps researchers in their work and second, you get a real grasp of the performance of various devices using the same information.
Imagine a Wikipedia...
A new uranium molecule developed by scientists from the University of Edinburgh can literally clean the waste that nuclear power plants leave behind.
The researchers found out that the molecule may be involved in forming clusters of radioactive material in...
Solar panels are "the thing" this year, so you won't be able to escape them, no matter how hard you try. Why just not make your own then? You need 40 3x6 solar cells with tabbing wire (check out...
The Fukushima disaster in the spring of 2011 was first of all an environmental disaster for Japan. But like the Phoenix bird that is reborn from its own ashes, the site could become the home of world's first offshore,...
Fermentalg, the company founded and led by French researcher Pierre Caleja, has recently developed street lighting that could one day soak CO2 from the air with the use of microalgae.
Caleja's company had received several millions in funding from various...
