Liquid Metal Batteries Could Lead to Power Storage Breakthrough
Researchers create an all-liquid-metal battery that could allow alternative power schemes to flourish and three more breakthrough technologies that the U.S. Department of Energy...
Kyocera launched its highest output solar panel
Kyocera launched its highest output solar panel in the US, called aka solar module with almost 80 cells KD 315. This new module of...
Portugal Gives Itself a Clean Energy Makeover
LISBON — Five years ago, the leaders of this sun-scorched, wind-swept nation made a bet: To reduce Portugal’s dependence on imported fossil fuels, they...
Plastic Solar Cells from Solarmer and NREL
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Solarmer Energy, Inc., have signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA)...
Maxwell Technologies’ UPS Based on Ultracapacitors for Short Term Energy Storage
Maxwell Technologies Inc developed the uninterruptible power supply -UPS- module after consulting with UPS system integrators to mitigate the effects of brief power source...
Nanocable could be big boon for energy storage
Thanks to a little serendipity, researchers at Rice University have created a tiny coaxial cable that is about a thousand times smaller than a...
Pacemaker powered by heartbeat vibrations
Because of this reason the researchers have searched for ways to prolong battery life.
They started to generate energy to power a pacemaker using blood...
Wind turbines and their background noises
You’ve probably heard stories of homeowners complaining about how loud wind turbines are, or even been regaled with the spectacular nonsense that is Wind...
The energy efficient soldier
Researchers at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Electronics Science and Technology Division are working to help the U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) reduce expeditionary energy...
Cities can reduce their electricity costs by about 50 percent
LED street light bulbs from Osram will soon light up the entire old town of Regensburg, Germany. The city initially equipped two streets with...