Newcastle University researchers have discovered that Bacillus stratosphericus, a bacterium that usually lives in the stratosphere (as its name suggests) could be used to generate electricity in microbial fuel cells.
It's not that microbes hadn't been used before this discovery -...
If you've only seen wind turbines in a picture and never really been up there next to one, you probably don’t realize how much noise it makes and how picky it can be: it needs its own space around...
Although they're being touted as the perfect energy storage medium for electric cars, lithium ion batteries, in the form they exist today, are not as good for grid energy storage applications.
Dr. Fabio La Mantia from the Ruhr-Universität Bochum - Germany...
University of California researchers led by Yang Yang, professor of materials science and engineering, have developed a polymer solar cell that achieves a 10.6 percent efficiency. The discovery comes at less than a year since the same research group reached...
Many things have been written about CO2 sequestration and many experiments have been carried in recent years that could easily confirm one thing: it's expensive, not so efficient as it had been thought and people realized we really don't...
There’s all this talk about hydrogen fuel cell cars, but maybe nobody thought it would go that far: now the US military has them! It’s the first army in the world to include a fleet of 16 such vehicles...
Have you ever wondered whatever happens to the batteries from hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs)? Do they get recycled or are they just thrown away? The answer is no: Toyota Motor Corp wants to try using nickel-metal hydride (NiMH) rechargeable...
Although it's being used since the late 1800s, the Portland cement (OPC) is guilty for a large amount of carbon dioxide spewed in the atmosphere by its manuacturers. The latest recipe comes from Drexel and uses an industrial byproduct...
A new thermoelectric material has been invented at the Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials at wake Forest University. It's been called Power Felt, and its creators hope that one day it will revolutionize the way we power small...
Caldicellulosiruptor obsidiansis, a bacterium that can normally be found in Yellowstone's hot springs has opened new horizons for scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) who were studying how to produce ethanol from switchgrass in a more viable manner, without...
