An add-on to your old gas-guzzling gasoline car could enhance its fuel consumption by as much as 30 percent. The company that operates such upgrades is called XL Hybrids, and they're from Massachusetts.
Since ages, it's been considered that if you burn biomass the net carbon dioxide emission is zero, since the CO2 emitted is equal to the CO2 absorbed in growing plants. A research conducted at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) says otherwise: we should also count those CO2 emissions along with the ones produced by petrol, for example.
The U.S. Marines are one step closer to a clean energy future. Camp Pendleton, a major West Coast base in the United States has recently installed a new 1.4 megawatt solar array.
An engine that uses shock waves has been invented by Norbert Müller at Michigan State University in East Lansing. He presented his baby at a DARPA-E meeting last week and showed how it can reduce fuel consumption and the car's total weight.
Currently, the United States generate about 3.1 gigawatts of electricity from geothermal systems. On the other hand, as the report claims, 88 percent of the world's geothermal energy systems currently in operation are used in just 8 countries.
Batteries are going to get as wild as possible, with Wildcat Discovery Technologies' new electrolyte material that is able to bear up to five volts, a first in the history of energy storage. This discovery is due to Wilcat's combinational chemistry tools that can synthesize and test over 1,300 unique materials every week.
I wanted to give people an insight to read these days about nuclear power, how clean it is if it works properly and how dirty and "sinful" it is when things like an earthquake and a tsunami both hit the respective power plants at the same time.
Florida, one of the states with the greatest solar energy potential has recently started the world's first hybrid solar energy plant. Called Martin Next Generation Solar Energy Center, the Martin County-based plant, is equipped with about 190,000 solar thermal mirrors which track and harness the sun's power via hydraulic motors.
Google has lately been at the forefront of web applications applied to green technologies. Their initiatives in the field have kinda been waiting for this one: the inclusion of the nearest EV charging station in Google Maps.
All of the LEDs you see in every device that you put your hands on is made with precious sapphire rock - artificially grown one, but still an expensive material to work with. A new technology developed by Bridgelux uses Gallium nitride to grow LEDs on silicon substrates and can be reproduced at commercial scales.
