How do windmills create electricity based on wind speed
Power output continues to grow as the wind speed increases, but at a slower rate than it does right after the cut-in point. The...
Lithium-ion batteries with silicone anodes could store more energy
Lithium-ion batteries could store ten times more energy as now if they will be constructed with silicon anodes.
This improvement would eliminate the range issue...
Solar rays could replace petroleum fuels with solar gasoline
Yen-Ting Kuo, a doctoral candidate in chemistry, Taiwan, has spent several years in K-State's chemistry program working to create new materials that better use...
Thinner, better and cheaper solar cells
Do better with less. That is the challenge the researchers of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) have set for themselves,...
Need for new magnet materials
Increasing demand and a shrinking supply of rare earth elements for magnets creates a perfect opportunity for a research team from Oak Ridge National...
Improved buildings for major reductions in their lifetime carbon footprint
The construction and operation of buildings accounts for approximately 40 percent of all U.S. emissions of greenhouse gases. The most-used building material in the...
Mitsubishi developed a spray on solar cells technology
After the devastating earthquake followed by a tsunami this year, Japan surpassed itself through a green revolution made by researchers with help of government....
The Solar Energy Conversion Efficiency Rate Improved By Nanomaterials
Frontiers of research are rapidly exceeded. Even in field of solar energy harvest and conversion efficiency, new research ideas come from everywhere.
The scientists from...
Greener Grill Prototype using Solar Thermal Energy
Funny but very practical idea developed by MIT students, a new type of solar powered outdoor grill.
Based on MIT professor David Wilson technology, this...
IKEA Goes on Renewable Energy
Ikea Group intends to become much greener until 2015. Their goal is to have 80% of the electricity in every store generated by renewable...