The World’s Smallest Battery
A benchtop version of the world’s smallest battery — its anode a single nanowire one seven-thousandth the thickness of a human hair — has...
Solar cell raises the bar for low-cost designs
Researchers have tapped a novel material to develop a low-cost, efficient, and environmentally friendly solar cell.
In particular, the device is the first to solve...
Unzipped carbon nanotubes could help energize fuel cells and batteries
Multi-walled carbon nanotubes riddled with defects and impurities on the outside could replace some of the expensive platinum catalysts used in fuel cells and...
World Record for Solar Module Efficiency 33.9 percent
The solar company Semprius achieved a world record for photovoltaic module efficiency of 33.9 percent.
This result was externally certified after measurement under standard test...
100% renewable energy within ten years in Australia
Exciting new report, Zero Carbon Australia Stationary Energy Plan - to be launched at University of Melbourne in 14 july 2010 - argues that...
Reduce Your Electricity Home Consumption With LumiSmart
What do you think MP3s and light bulbs have in common? Quite a lot, you’ll see when the light bulbs are attached to a...
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...
Scientists to develop liquid-based hydrogen storage material
University of Oregon chemists have developed a boron-nitrogen-based liquid-phase storage material for hydrogen that works safely at room temperature and is both air- and...
Geothermal energy in Eastern Oregon
U.S. Geothermal Inc., a renewable energy company focused on the development, production and sale of electricity from geothermal energy, yesterday announced the financial closing...