Carnegie Mellon University Archives – The Green Optimistic

Eat This: Scientists Develop Edible Battery to Reduce Pollution

Mila Luleva — Thu, 25 Aug 2016 11:13:33 +0000

A team of scientists at Carnegie Mellon University developed a battery that can be eaten when it is no longer in use. The number of different technologies that rely on battery power is increasing by the minute. Phones, watches, music players, cameras, cars, buses, renewable energy plants and even pace-makers- all depend and work with […]

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Just Add Water – Lithium-Air Battery Energy Storage Increases by 500%

Benji Jerew — Mon, 22 Dec 2014 15:03:19 +0000

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have stumbled upon a solution to the “sudden death” phenomenon in lithium-air battery chemistry: just add water! New rechargeable battery technology is constanty in development, as we’ve spent lots of time covering here, from solid-state lithium-ion battery technology to metal-air battery chemistry. Many of these technologies, such as lithium-air battery […]

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Researchers Warning about Hurricane Effects on Offshore Wind Farms to be Built by Government

Ovidiu Sandru — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:13:56 +0000

Whoever saw a wind turbine in action and a storm in action can imagine how it would be like these two met – and they do, on a regular basis. Not few wind turbines have been destroyed by powerful storms, but hurricanes could be even more fatal to them, they the poor expensive sticks rising […]

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Fully-Electric Honda Civic Developed by Carnegie Mellon University

Mike Sandru — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 18:16:14 +0000

The Robotics Institute of CMU (Carnegie Mellon University), in collaboration with some researchers such as Illah Nourbakhsh of the institute's Create Lab, have successfully converted a 2002 Civic EX four-door sedan into a fully electric one. The vehicle will be unveiled at an open house near CMU on March 25.

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