All-electric highway that wirelessly charges cars and trucks
A Stanford University research team has designed a high-efficiency charging system that uses magnetic fields to wirelessly transmit large electric currents between metal coils...
Environmentally-friendly houses use 80 per cent less energy
Clever, inexpensive design can cut the energy used in new homes by up to 80 per cent, says a Queensland University of Technology (QUT)...
Bugs from space to increase the electrical output of the fuel cells
Bacteria normally found 30km above the earth have been identified as highly efficient generators of electricity.
Bacillus stratosphericus - a microbe commonly found in high...
Austria’s most efficient thermal power plant
The heat-and power cogeneration plant had already commenced operation in May 2012.
With an electrical rating of 838 MW and an efficiency of 59.2 percent...
Green Way to Get Heat and Electricity with Help of Fuel Cells
The generation of electricity and heat with no pollution and with considerably less emission of the greenhouse gas CO2 sounds too good to...
Graphite foam technology licensed to LED North America
Technology developed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory that extends the life of light-emitting diode (Led) lamps has been licensed to...
Nanotrees Harvest the Sun’s Energy to Turn Water into Hydrogen Fuel
University of California, San Diego electrical engineers are building a forest of tiny nanowire trees in order to cleanly capture solar energy without using...
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...
Power Felt – a promising new device that convert body heat into an electrical...
Simply by touching a small piece of Power Felt you can convert your body heat into an electrical current.
Comprised of tiny carbon nanotubes locked...
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...