Vestas Prepares Its New Generation Offshore Wind Turbine
The North Sea conditions are influencing the design of wind turbines and according to Vestas Wind System they are preparing the next generation offshore...
Bad Viruses Could Help Us To Build a New Generation Of Highly Efficient Nano-Batteries...
Viruses have a bad rep-and rightly so. The ability of a virus to quickly and precisely replicate itself makes it a destructive scourge to...
Mathematicians find a way to hide waves inside an invisible Hat
Invisibility, once the subject of magic or legend, is slowly becoming reality.
Over the past five years, mathematicians and other scientists have been working on...
Photovoltaic Panels for 30,000 Homes in UK
Energy-efficiency specialist Eaga has secured £300m from a number of banks to fund plans to install photovoltaic panels on more than 30,000 UK homes.
The...
Researchers send “Wireless” message using a beam of neutrinos
A group of scientists led by researchers from the University of Rochester and North Carolina State University have for the first time sent a...
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,...
Terahertz waves as future energy source
It is already known in scientific environments that each device emits besides Wi-Fi signals, some terahertz waves. They are electromagnetic waves with a high...
Quantum Dots – Key for the Efficient Future Solar Cells
According to the theory of multiple exciton generation, when an electron absorbs light energy can transfer energy to more than another one electron resulting...
Biome Concept of Mercedes Benz ahead of LA Design Challenge
We already had heard of the Biome concept-Mercedes Benz’s entry into this year’s Los Angeles Auto Show Design Challenge.
However, now the brand has unveiled...
How to convert waste heat to electricity at the nanoscale
Scientists have discovered that a class of materials known to convert heat to electricity and vice versa behaves quite unexpectedly at the nanoscale in...