Street lamp with LED lights and solar panels for the Olympics 2012
Street lamp has a futuristic design and is dubbed as solar tree being crafted by Ross Lovegrove. The urban design will totally transform the...
Stanford scientists spark new interest in the century-old Edison battery
Stanford University scientists have breathed new life into the nickel-iron battery, a rechargeable technology developed by Thomas Edison more than a century ago.
Designed in...
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...
New type of photovoltaic device harnesses heat radiation that most solar cells ignore
About 40 percent of the solar energy reaching Earth’s surface lies in the near-infrared region of the spectrum — energy that conventional silicon-based solar...
Magnetic field sensor from Plastic paint developed by University of Utah
Physicists at University of Utah developed an inexpensive, highly accurate magnetic field sensor. This new magnetic field sensor, good for scientific or consumer uses...
Energy storage research projects at Brookhaven Lab
One of the world’s leading energy storage researchers and the electrochemist, Mrs. Esther Takeuchi, joined Brookhaven National Laboratory to advance energy storage projects. She...
Underwater solar cells to harvest renewable energy
A team from US Naval Research Laboratory leaded by Philip Jenkins recently demonstrated a method for harvesting solar power underwater at depths of 30...
Wireless power via laser?
Wireless power via lasers can be used anywhere that it’s too expensive or impractical to run an extension cord.
Communication towers on mountain tops are...
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...
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...