Last year, a company called New Energy Technology announced that they had succeeded making a photovoltaic substance that, applied on clear glass, could generate electricity. Now, they are announcing the same innovation being available for flexible plastic materials.
Water, a key element of life, has always been one of the most exploited natural resources. Even if we have a lot of water (71 percent of the earth’s surface), in some places on earth drinking water still remains an unsolved issue. Especially with the increasing population and industrial development, our clean water resources dropped drastically in recent years.
The new system, called "Leaf to Home," has been conceived as an emergency power backup for the homes during a power blackout or a natural disaster. Nissan claims that the new technology will be on the Japanese market by March 2012.
Agriculture has always relied on sunlight and water, that's a known fact since the birth of civilization. A project initiated in Upper Egypt uses sunlight to extract water from arid land, seeking to replace diesel generators that have traditionally been used.
A few weeks ago, Lufthansa became world's first airline that began regular biofuel passenger flights within Europe, more precisely between Frankfurt and Hamburg. Now Aeromexico, Boeing, and the Mexican Government succeeded launching the first transcontinental flight powered by biofuels.
While some people in the Philippines are glad to have sunlight in their homes during the day, scientists from the Heinrich Hertz Institute in Germany have managed to transmit data at 800 Mbps over LED light bulbs, giving them a second reason to exist, besides saving power and carbon dioxide.
Using one-liter plastic bottles, water and bleach, they managed to create the Bottle Light Bulb. The concept is very simple but a real wonder for those poor people who lived in darkness, or at the light of toxic petrol lamps.
Servers in data center have been blamed to consume a lot of electricity, but a recent study performed by researcher Jonathan Koomey shows that, in recent years, data centers did not follow the path some have expected them to.
The U.S. Army and Lockheed Martin have developed the first-of-its kind unmanned solar-powered aerial vehicle. Dubbed the High Altitude Long Endurance-Demonstrator (HALE-D), the solar-powered sky cruiser has been successfully launched at 5:47 a.m. out of the Airdock in Akron, Ohio.
Last week, US President Barack Obama unveiled a new deal with automakers regarding fuel economy standards. He said that the application of these standards will diminish the US dependence on foreign oil.
