Beacon Power's flywheels will spin at up to 16,000 rpm, and will be powered by the excess energy produced at night or at times when power consumption is not so big. The numbers are also impressive: the entire array will be able to store about 10% (20 MW) of New York's energy needs.
Daniel G. Nocera of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is the inventor of the most important solar energy system of the century. His 2007 designed system is able to create cheap solar energy based on the photosynthesis process.
University of Illinois researchers discovered a method to manufacture three-dimensional, single-crystalline silicon solar cells from thin films. They used photolithography and a process driven by capillary interaction that made the micron-thick film to bend around itself.
City College of New York researchers, led by professor Yiannis Andreopoulos, are studying how to incorporate piezoelectric electricity generators into cars and planes, so they can convert the kinetic energy of motion into electricity.
This is the simple description, of course - the machine, made of a metal cylinder, is called the CR5 (Counter Rotating Ring Receiver Reactor Recuperator) is working on the principle that heat triggers a thermo-chemical reaction in an iron-rich composite material.
Petroleum stands at the base of every plastic we usually find on today's market. Polymers are everywhere, and if petroleum resources are about to go scarce with time, it's a good idea to replace it with other renewable and biodegradable material that we could use just as well as we use petroleum today.
Mankind has been adopting the working principles of natural phenomenons and animals since ages. Now, when it's time to learn from fish to develop wave-powered generators, it's also time to learn what others have learned from birds - and use them in the seas, to gather energy which they would later turn into electricity.
Binod Kumar, a research engineer and leader of UDRI's electrochemical power group said that the university is looking for partners that could license the â€Ã…“breakthrough†technology for manufacturing the batteries.
A group of students at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur have developed a bio cell(battery) that can be used to treat sewage water and generate electric energy, being a perfect solution to combat the water and energy crisis.
I have just received a comment on one of my articles this afternoon from a certain mr. Ryszard Dzikowski, who presents his innovation I call "solar sandwich", consisting of two Gratzel organic cells, faced one another, and covered by reflective layers on the sides, except for one, which is used to feed the aggregate with light.
