Whiskey as Alternative Fuel for Kentucky’s Man Car
A world full of worries about depleting oil resources is wondering about alternative fuel sources.
A man from Kentucky found alternative fuel solution, he build...
PowerPot- cooking pots to power gadgets and camping devices
It is generally known that thermoelectric materials are able to generate an electrical current due to a temperature gradient within them.
From a Gizmag article...
Hydrogen fuel cell from seawater
Researchers have developed a method that uses aluminum and a liquid alloy to extract hydrogen from seawater to run engines in boats and ships,...
Ferroelectric nanostructures directly on plastic
The technique, which uses a heated atomic force microscope (AFM) tip to produce patterns, could facilitate high-density, low-cost production of complex ferroelectric structures for...
Projection System as a touch screen developed by Microsoft Research
Due to Microsoft Research and Carnegie Mellon University which have created a wearable projection system that turns portion of walls, paper or even the...
Invisibility Cloak Made of Glass
Could you imagine that a scientist at Michigan Technological University would be serious about building a working invisibility cloak? I suppose no, but that’s...
Maine students became experts in renewable energy
A hydropower turbine has the potential to not only create energy, but has also sparked the creation of both a renewable energy company and...
Dye-sensitized solar cells more efficient than silicon cells
Dye-sensitized Grätzel solar cells have just set a new efficiency benchmark. By changing the composition and color of the cells, an EPFL team has...
Metamaterials may boost wireless power transfer
More than one hundred years after the pioneering inventor Nikola Tesla first became fascinated with wireless energy transfer, the spread of mobile electronic devices...
Green Buildings Signs of the Minimum Heat Loss
If you want to define a green building, a building which keeps most energy inside, you’ll see that is not easy because of many...