In order to reduce global warming and help curb costs, the city of Stamford, Connecticut is planning to install energy-efficient LED streetlights. This way, the municipality will save more than $146,000 every year.
This initiative is part of a country-wide...
Once in a while, innovation sparks in some people's minds, resulting in things that could change everything from then on. Thomas Senkel, a German engineer, just like the early aircraft pioneers did at the beginning of the 20th century,...
Corneliu Birtok-Baneasa, a Romanian engineer, has invented a groundbreaking air filter that decreases the fuel consumption by 10 to 15 percent and raises an engine's power by up to 10 percent. He patented the device that had been already...
Tesla Motors' Chief Executive Officer, Elon Musk, claims that the company is sold out of next year's production of its new Model S sedan and should earn a profit in 2013.
Musk said in an interview on Bloomberg TV that...
An interesting news hit today's headlines, as Uganda's Makerere University has just unveiled the country's first electric car, the Kiira EV. The project has been led by Paul Isaac Musasizi, who also tested the vehicle and gave the press...
Siemens Energy has recently developed a new 60 MW steam turbine for geothermal power plants at the GEA Geothermal Energy Expo in San Diego.
Designed for geothermal applications, the new steam turbine combines the casing and turbine-generator package with the...
A new innovation from Professor Huai-Yong Zhu at Queensland's University of Technology can clean up all the water contaminated by radioactive materials. The material Zhu made is based on nanofibers and nanotubes, and uses an approach that had never...
IBM and ABB have decided to work together to find a better insulator for the electricity grid. They'll use IBM's supercomputers and ABB's expertise at building grids to develop a new kind of high-voltage insulator that would better withstand...
British designer Phil Pauley has come up with a unique, innovative design of a scalable hybrid marine solar PV cell (MSC). According to him, the wave power system is the best solution of harnessing the energy of the sun...
Researchers from Northwestern University's McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science have developed a material that could one time revolutionize the solar cell industry, by absorbing a wider range of wavelengths than currently used materials are able to.
"The solar...
