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MIT Researchers Develop Cheap Material to Convert Solar into Steam

Mila Luleva — Tue, 22 Jul 2014 14:07:14 +0000

Scarcity of water, greenhouse gas pollution from power plants, raising electricity bills, all these factors that send an alarming message to our brain, triggering that guilty feeling inside, every time we go for a relaxing steam room time. But this might soon be over, as MIT researchers developed a new material that generates steam only […]

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Nanoparticles Covert Solar Energy into Steam at Rice University

Mila Luleva — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 13:38:30 +0000

Scientists at Rice University Laboratory for Nanophotonics (LANP) have discovered an effective way to use nanoparticles to convert solar energy into steam. ACS Nano published an article on the revolutionary technology that reveals the 24% overall energy efficiency. Surprisingly, however, the team is hoping to use the solar steam invention not for electricity generation, but […]

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How to Make Hydrogen from Water and Slag: Watch Tata Steel

Ovidiu Sandru — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 08:09:04 +0000

Have you ever imagined you could get energy from melted steel? Probably not. The engineers from Tata Steel (a sister of Tata Motors) in India have obtained hydrogen from pouring water on melted steel at 1600°C.

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Scientists Making Hydrogen Efficiently from Water Steam

Ovidiu Sandru — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 09:03:08 +0000

Trying to make hydrogen a viable fuel, economically and energetically, a team of researchers from Idaho National Laboratory splits water steam into hydrogen and oxygen using electrolysis, but from steam, and at a high temperature.

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Overunity Water Heater

Ovidiu Sandru — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:26:29 +0000

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Gasoline And Steam Engine Reloaded

Ovidiu Sandru — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 20:15:35 +0000

Bruce Crower‘s engine is an innovation derived from a standard 4-stroke engine. It uses 6 strokes – the 4 normal ones, and at the end of the 4th it introduces the 5th and the 6th: – it squirts water on the 1500 °F hot cylinder, creating a steam volume 1600 times greater than the volume […]

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BMW's Gasoline and Steam Hybrid Vision

Ovidiu Sandru — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:51:08 +0000

Certain parts of a car’s engine can reach temperatures in excess of 1,500°F. With this in mind, the engineers at BMW developed a way to boost efficiency: Transform that otherwise wasted heat into energy the engine can use. The resulting Turbo- steamer reclaims more than 80 percent of the heat lost from the engine’s exhaust […]

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