Electrified highways for electric trucks and cars in Sweden
The dream of electrified highways for car and truck transport has remained on the spot.
Electric cars are starting to reach the mainstream, the vision...
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...
Watertube an eco gadget to provide drinking water in remote areas
More than 75 percent of the Earth surface is covered by water and probably only 2.5 percent of it is fresh water.
Only 0.3 percents...
Maine students became experts in renewable energy
A hydropower turbine has the potential to not only create energy, but has also sparked the creation of both a renewable energy company and...
Stay super-dry with Nokia’s nanotechnology
What happens when a drop of water falls on a lotus leaf? It’s not a philosophical question, but a natural phenomenon scientists have been...
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...
Spider silk conducts heat as well as metals
Xinwei Wang had a hunch that spider silk webs were worth a much closer look.
So he ordered eight spiders - Nephila clavipes, golden silk...
Oceans acidifying faster today than in past 300 million years
Anthropogenic CO2 emissions, in addition to causing global warming, alter the chemistry of seas and oceans, causing them to turn progressively acidic. This change...
Extracting energy from the waste water and salt water
Production of energy from the difference between salt water and fresh water is most convenient near the oceans, but now, using an ammonium bicarbonate...
Metamaterials Boosts Electromagnetism Safely
By using exotic man-made materials, scientists from Duke University and Boston College believe they can greatly enhance the forces of electromagnetism (EM), one of...