In recent years, many airlines have turned their attention to biofuels. Now, Thai Airways, the national airline of Thailand, has decided to launch Asia's first commercial biofuel flight.
According to the president of Thailand's flag carrier, Piyasavasti Amranand, the commercial...
High-altitude winds have been thought by some to be the ultimate energy source that will drive our needs in the future. However, recent calculations that researchers from the Max Planck Institute performed, reveal that these high winds contain some...
To get rid of carbon dioxide from our atmosphere, one sure way to go would be capturing the gas directly from the air. However, this is more of a challenge than would be capturing the carbon at the source...
You know how Stirling engines work, don't you? If you don't you can make an idea by imagining a cylinder with a fixed quantity of gas inside that expands when hot and compresses as it loses heat, creating movement...
BMW is seemingly looking for ties in the auto industry with Toyota and General Motors to develop future battery and hydrogen fuel cell-powered EVs, says Motorauthority.com, quoting the German Wirtschaftswoche (Business Week).
So GM's Volt technology may not be officially...
At least once in your lifetime you've heard about anti-fungal painting, or even used it on your own home. Did you know that the same anti-fungal and anti-bacterial properties of such a paint are unbalancing the ecosystem? A scientific...
An international team of researchers from France and Denmark have recently discovered that, by using a thin film of gold nanodots in solar cells could improve their conversion efficiency.
The 0.5 nanometer-thick nanodots thus find applicability in the field of...
Apple has updated their plans that describe their future headquarters yesterday. The updated Spaceship campus is now planned to include solar panels on its roof, and as ugly as it may have looked through the eyes of Steve Jobs,...
Bayer MaterialScience LLC, one of the world's largest producers of polymers and high-performance plastics, has recently created a new polyurethane-based composite technology in order to improve the wind power industry. The new composite material has been designed for stronger,...
A new efficiency record for organic photovoltaic cells has been reached by Heliatek, for the third time in a row. The German company created a cheap solar cell that can convert up to 9.8 percent of the incoming light...
