A solar sandwich to power future buildings
All in one: A new electricity generating building component is being developed at EPFL
Most modern buildings are composed of several layers of materials, each...
Graphene pioneers – Professors Andre Geim and Kostya Novoselov – have been knighted
Professors Andre Geim and Kostya Novoselov, who demonstrated the remarkable properties of wonder material graphene, have been knighted in the New Year Honours list.
The...
Power source for implants by breathing energy
Instead of using traditional batteries as a power source which require to be cut for replacing them with new ones, now there are various...
New idea to harnessing lightning strikes electrical charges for electricity
Wednesday a group of chemists from the University of Campinas in Brazil presented theirs research at 240th National Meeting of the American chemical Society...
Apple goes green due to a 20MW solar array
Apple goes green after they has announced the construction of its US biggest end user owned solar array which will produce every year 42...
New Test Center to make buildings greener
All types of snazzy technologies are available these days to make buildings greener: automated shades, electrochromic windows that know when to tint, intelligent lighting...
How do windmills create electricity based on wind speed
Power output continues to grow as the wind speed increases, but at a slower rate than it does right after the cut-in point. The...
Turkey Will Have First Solar Power Station Made by GiraSolar
Solar power has fast emerged as an alternative energy source across the globe and many countries are developing solar power plant to harness sun’s...
Light touch transforms material into a superconductor
A non-superconducting material has been transformed into a superconductor using light, Oxford University researchers report.
One hundred years after superconductivity was first observed in 1911,...
Nanotechnology has increased efficiency of organic solar cells
In the solar energy field researchers are using the latest developments in nanotechnology to work on very small solar cells. Researchers are testing different...