First practical nanogenerator could replace conventional batteries
After six years of intensive effort, scientists are reporting development of the first commercially viable nanogenerator, a flexible chip that can use body movements...
Using solar energy to create renewable natural gas
HyperSolar, Inc. (OTCBB:HYSR), the developer of a breakthrough technology to make renewable natural gas using solar power, today disclosed more information from...
Producing Electricity and Heat from Biomass
Following ten years of research and development, Talbotts Biomass Energy LTD of Stafford have seen the installation of four of their BG100 biomass generators....
Metamaterial could be far more efficient at capturing sunlight than existing solar cells
Metamaterials are a new class of artificial substances with properties unlike anything found in the natural world. Some have been designed to act as...
Bright future for solar power in space
Solar power gathered in space could be set to provide the renewable energy of the future thanks to innovative research being carried out by...
Nanoparticles to get energy through a solar paint
This idea gives a major advantage to a team of researchers at the Notre Dame University in order to do something transformative, “to move...
Electrically conductive gel – now printable
Researchers from Stanford University have invented an electrically conductive gel, quick and easy to make, which can be applied onto a surface with an...
Cheap batteries based on biological polymer
A breakthrough for inexpensive electricity from solar cells, and a massive investment in wind power, will mean a need to store energy in an...
Solar cells to produce methanol from CO2
In the BIOCOMET project, researchers from Wageningen UR Food & Biobased Research and Plant Research International, part of Wageningen UR, together with...
Rare-Earth Elements Provides 25 Precent Greater Thermoelectric Conversion Efficiency
Thermoelectric materials and technology have powered spacecraft for decades. But, thanks to advances in efficiency discovered at Ames Laboratory, thermoelectric materials may have new,...