piezoelectric power Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Sat, 17 Nov 2012 07:38:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Stony Brook Gets Award for Piezoelectric Railroad Energy Harvestor https://www.greenoptimistic.com/stony-brook-gets-award-for-piezoelectric-railroad-energy-harvestor-20121117/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/stony-brook-gets-award-for-piezoelectric-railroad-energy-harvestor-20121117/#respond Sat, 17 Nov 2012 07:38:54 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=28237 Engineers at Stony Brook University in New York have won a national award for developing an energy harvestor that significantly reduces railroads’ carbon dioxide emissions. The harvestor may even save $10 million in New York trackside power supply costs and has the potential to reduce carbon dioxide by 3000 tons per year, equating to a […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/stony-brook-gets-award-for-piezoelectric-railroad-energy-harvestor-20121117/feed/ 0 28237 Piezo-Photovoltaic Device Creates Electricity From Wind/Rain/Sun https://www.greenoptimistic.com/elias-siores-piezo-photovoltaic-20110615/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/elias-siores-piezo-photovoltaic-20110615/#comments Wed, 15 Jun 2011 16:07:42 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=19106 A new device that harvests energy from raindrops, winds or sunlight has been invented at the Institute for Materials Research and Innovation at the University of Bolton, UK. Elias Siores led a team who created a special polymer with piezoelectric and photosensitive properties.

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/elias-siores-piezo-photovoltaic-20110615/feed/ 1 19106 Innowattech Applying Piezoelectric Technology To Railroad Tracks For Electricity Generation https://www.greenoptimistic.com/innowattech-piezoelectric-railroad-20101208/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/innowattech-piezoelectric-railroad-20101208/#respond Wed, 08 Dec 2010 18:17:49 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=12251 After modifying Israeli highways to produce energy from piezoelectric pads installed beneath the asphalt, Innowattech, an Israel-based company, now applied their technology on railroads.

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/innowattech-piezoelectric-railroad-20101208/feed/ 0 12251 Micro-Scaled Piezoelectric Device Harvests Electricity from Vibrations https://www.greenoptimistic.com/micro-scaled-piezoelectric-device-harvests-electricity-from-vibrations-20100101/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/micro-scaled-piezoelectric-device-harvests-electricity-from-vibrations-20100101/#comments Fri, 01 Jan 2010 11:24:33 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=6005 The world we live is full of f vibrating surfaces like train stations, dance floors and highways that that could yield a rich trove of clean, eco-friendly energy. It is called piezoelectric energy, formed by the conversion of mechanical strain into electricity.

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