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New Plastic Paving System Captures Solar and Kinetic Energy

Mila Luleva — Tue, 20 Dec 2016 19:08:02 +0000

A new paving system, made out of recycled plastics, is able to harvest both solar and kinetic energy. I am a big fan of solar roads and solar bike lanes. It is true that in terms of efficiency and placement, these might not be the best. However, I cannot think of a better way to […]

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Artificial Trees from OSU Harness Energy from Vibrations

Mila Luleva — Tue, 15 Mar 2016 06:46:50 +0000

Artificial trees, inspired by nature, harness the energy of surrounding vibrations- from traffic to earthquakes. Over the recent years we have covered quite a number of nature-inspired technologies that are truly fascinating. Yes, often they seem to be slightly far-fetched, and probably not so feasible and viable, but they are very often inspirational. New technologies should […]

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Students Develop Five Systems to Harvest Energy From Railways

Mila Luleva — Fri, 31 Jul 2015 07:14:19 +0000

Engineering students developed five systems that could harvest electricity from railway crossings. Every once in a while, unfortunately more often than we would like to, we read about unfortunate accidents that take place at railway crossings at remote locations. These accidents most often happen due to lack of flashing lights and barriers to indicate that […]

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Dutch “Energy Train” Moves at 1,250 MPH, Stores 2.5GWh of Electricity

Mila Luleva — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 14:13:38 +0000

A super fast floating train, developed by the Energy Research Institute in the Netherlands, can store as much as 10% of the total energy demand of the entire Dutch population in the form of kinetic energy. There is only one thing that prevents renewable energy from taking over the world completely, and that is the […]

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Chin Strap Harvests Energy From Chewing To Power Wearable Gadgets

Mila Luleva — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 06:25:32 +0000

Harnessing energy from body movement has gained quite a bit of attention over the past years. Various technologies have been proposed that can turn the energy we constantly generate into a mean to charge electronic devices, however nothing is like the invention that a Canadian team developed. They made a strap that turns energy from […]

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Kinetic Energy Harvesting Closer to Ideal Thanks to New Zealand Scientists

Mila Luleva — Fri, 21 Feb 2014 05:28:27 +0000

Wouldn’t it be great if we can charge any electronic device that we carry as we walk to work, without having to carry fancy solar panels or heavy gadgets with us? For many years now, scientists have been trying to develop the ultimate way to make this possible. The goal of many has been to […]

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Pavegen's Tiles Harvest Kinetic Energy Every Time Users Step on Them

Mike Sandru — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 18:41:36 +0000

Kembell-Cook, the director of Pavegen Systems has come up with a new way to produce clean electricity from pedestrian traffic. The Pavegen tiles are expected to harvest energy from footsteps. They are perfect for cities where there are high foot-traffic areas. The operating mechanism is as follows: the tiles convert the kinetic energy from the […]

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Makani Power's Kite Generating 1MW of Electricity in High Altitude Winds

Mike Sandru — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 19:06:00 +0000

Makani Power, a CA-based company, wants to harvest high-altitude winds by using large-wing kites. The company says that high-altitude wind currents have the highest level of energy per square foot.

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Indonesian Kinetic Energy Harvesting Device Claims Getting 150 W

Mike Sandru — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 08:00:40 +0000

A team of students led by Harus Laksana Guntur, an engineering lecturer at the Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology (ITS) in East Java capital Surabaya have developed a mobile kinetic energy charger that can charge your cellphone every time you move. Unlike a battery or solar charger, this new cellphone charger uses the user's energy to reload mobile phones.

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Sainsbury's Using Parking Cars' Kinetic Energy to Power Up

Ovidiu Sandru — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:50:13 +0000

Sainsbury's, from Gloucester, UK, is the first supermarket to use the kinetic energy coming from the cars entering their parking lot to (partially) power their shop.

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Do Africans Plan to Produce Energy by Pulling a Roll After Them?

Ovidiu Sandru — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:59:14 +0000

An african inventor, by his name Cedrick Ngalande, has invented a device called the Green Erg, that could harness the pulling force of a person or moving vehicle, and convert some of it into electricity. Though I don't see his invention any soon on any European or US market, it seems some say that it will have a great success in Africa, there where you have to make electricity out of anything.

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