After meeting at the second international forum The Arctic: Territory of Dialogue, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Iceland President Olafur Grimsson have concluded that the two countries will cooperate on renewable energies in the area.
"Even ten years ago...
Scientists have recently developed a new "smart" window system that, according to them, is capable of reflecting the sun's rays away during summer time and turn completely transparent during the winter. This way, the costs with heating and air...
If you remember, in August I published an article about a researcher from Stanford who had discovered that the electricity consumption of datacenters worldwide didn't double between 2005 and 2010, versus the period between 2000 and 2005, when it...
A team of professors and students from the Okayama Graduate School of Science and Technology led by Professor Naoshi Ikeda has built a unique solar cell that uses an iron oxide substrate instead of silicon, making the cell not...
I had heard about printable solar cells before, but now, a team of researchers from the Chemnitz University of Technology in Germany have developed a method that makes it possible to print solar cells on ordinary paper, possibly opening...
Intel researchers have just managed to tweak a Pentium-based processor in such a degree that they made the thing be able to run on solar power provided by a solar cell no larger than the size of a stamp.
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Peugeot came to the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show with a hybrid concept called HX1. The vehicle has a futuristic shape, which is said to indicate the company's future design line.
Regarding the powertrain, the Peugeot HX1 uses the HYbrid4 technology...
Canada may free itself from oil and gas in the not-so-distant future due to its geothermal capacity. A new report says that the country's possible geothermal wells would not only be enough to provide power to all of its...
The Japanese government has plans to build an off-shore floating wind farm near Fukushima, thus seeking to reduce its dependence on nuclear power and the associated dangers.
"This is part of the government's effort towards reconstructing the disaster area while...
Scientists at Oxford, Cambridge, Bristol and Edinburgh Universities have recently developed a Wembley Stadium-sized helium balloon, tethered to a ship that is expected to reduce or even stop global warming.
The working principle is as follows: the 660 ft-long balloon...
