This wind farm has turbines that are 640 feet tall with 262 foot long blades built by Dong Energy. These turbines are bigger than some skyscrapers (Image via MHI Vestas) The world’s largest wind farm is now up and running in the UK. The 32 huge ...
Google is close to its goal of completely running off renewable energy; they believe they’ll hit it by next year. Google is turning to wind and solar power to help run its facilities (via Google) Tech giant Google may be at the forefront of tech...
A Scottish company is harnessing wind energy with kites-technology so efficient and low cost that it needs no government subsidies for research and implementation. With rotating kites like this one connected to generator systems, Scotland could be 10...
Alphabet Energy’s tetrahedrite material is exceptional at converting waste heat to electricity (via AE)Thermoelectric materials are great at turning temperature differences into electricity by utilizing the flow of electrons from warmer areas to cool...
Solar Roadways is looking to develop solar powered road panels for ‘smart highways.' (via Solar Roadways)Solar power is just one of the alternative power resources countries are looking to capitalize on while weaning off fossil fuels. Arrays of s...
Graphene origami cube for efficient hydrogen energy storage. (via ACS)Who would have thought that the ancient Japanese art of origami would help design an efficient way to store hydrogen energy? Back in 2011, the US Department of Energy initiated a t...
Hohlraum case houses the fuel needed for fusion (via LLNL)Scientists have been looking to create the power of the sun down here on earth and find a way to harness that energy since the 1920’s. The processes in doing so have been a long and laborious ...
It's that old "Animals in Science" story, abuse at its best.Remember the Tweet a Roach project?Here we go again... the poor bugs to face more hardship...Roach power pack concept. (via Techon)Roaches are one of the most resilient creatures on earth. T...
We are constantly being bombarded with the facts that the Earth is warming and that energy resources are running out. These threats to the human population have helped to lead to the development of nuclear energy.Fission as it stands is a fantastic m...
Broadband to be delivered in Kenya with the help of solar cells (via Microsoft - read more here, see how to help) Many of us enjoy using our mobile devices, PCs and laptops using high-speed Wi-Fi connections, which can be found almost everywhere...
Dennis Deigel’s EM Harvester can capture radiant energy from electromagnetic fields to charge a AA battery (via http://dennissiegel.de/electromagnetic-harvester/) As part of a scientific venture into the global movement for sustainable energy ha...
Here a simple idea that may save your hide but may conflict with your long-term desire to save the planet. The Rohm portable charger allows you to charge your phone on the go using one of the two devices they have developed: a phone case made f...
Wind/solar powered camera prototype (via NHK) Cameras provide much needed and strategic visual communication that helps rescue crews during natural or manmade disasters. The only problem is that during emergencies, electrical power may be compro...
USC liberation method (via USC) A problem with hydrogen for use as a fuel comes when the vehicle is in a crash. The hydrogen leaks out, and any sparks or fire will ignite the gas. Another problem is a hydrogen fire is invisible. (I toured a manu...
(Artist concept of the reactor. via Galaxy Wire) NASA and the DOE are set to create a new type of power system for use in future space exploration. The concept is a mini-fission reactor that is 1.5 feet wide and 2.5 feet high. "[It is] abo...
By adding gold nanoparticles to organic photovoltaic panels, a research team from UCLA, China, and Japan have increased the solar efficiency. By using the plasmonic effect, where the metal helps absorb more sunlight, the team pushed the overall light...
Lithium titanate batteries contain a surface area at the anode of 100 square meters. Compared to the lithium ion surface area of 3 square meters, that is a sizable jump. The benefit comes in the ability to let in more charge, electron flow. five to t...
Rooftops globally are millions of acres of under tapped surface area prime for solar conversion. The structures are, in most cases, connected to the grid's of their respective countries, so energy distribution is built in. Many large companies ...
Starting out as a joke about a beer chilling bikini, Andrew Schneider from New York University has created a solar power bikini that actually works. A melding of textile work and electrical engineering, 1" x 4" photovoltaic thin film solar cell...
A Canadian Wind Farm I had asked this questions before, do wind farms effect the global environment? I now have the answer. Alex Kleidon of the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemisty, Germany, theorizes that the overuse of wind/wave farms...
Where fresh water meets saltwater there is a potential to harvest energy. Stanford University researchers have developed a device that can use this use the mixing of the two water types and pull out more energy that they put in. A container hol...
www.youtube.com/watch Sudden discoveries have lead to many different world changing technologies. For example, Penicillin came about through a cross contamination of two mold cultures in Dr. Alexander Flemings lab. X-rays were a surprise to rese...
