Cornell University Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Wed, 09 Feb 2011 20:41:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Cornell Students Harnessing Wind Vibrations to Produce Free Electricity https://www.greenoptimistic.com/cornell-wind-vibrations-electricity-20110209/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/cornell-wind-vibrations-electricity-20110209/#comments Wed, 09 Feb 2011 20:41:11 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=17057 A group of undergraduate students at Cornell University has conceived a device that can harness wind-induced vibrations into electricity through the piezoelectric effect. The Vibro-Wind Research Group is led by Frank Moon, Joseph Ford Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/cornell-wind-vibrations-electricity-20110209/feed/ 1 17057 Energy-Harvesting "Piezo-tree" to Produce Renewable Energy https://www.greenoptimistic.com/energy-harvesting-piezo-tree-to-produce-renewable-energy-20091229/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/energy-harvesting-piezo-tree-to-produce-renewable-energy-20091229/#comments Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:26:56 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=5954 A team of scientists at the Cornell University have developed an energy harvesting "piezo-tree" that uses the flittering of leaves connected to a piezoelectric stem to generate electric energy.

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/energy-harvesting-piezo-tree-to-produce-renewable-energy-20091229/feed/ 2 5954 Researchers Make One More Step Towards Metallic Hydrogen as Superconductor https://www.greenoptimistic.com/researchers-make-one-more-step-towards-metallic-hydrogen-as-superconductor-20091008/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/researchers-make-one-more-step-towards-metallic-hydrogen-as-superconductor-20091008/#respond Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:47:24 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=4682 A team of scientists from Cornell University and the State University of New York at Stony Brook announced this week in a specialized publication that they discovered, at least theoretically, how to turn hydrogen into a metal at significantly lower pressures than ever thought and make a superconductor out of it.

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