The team's Air-gen device pulls moisture from the air to generate electricity that can power devices. (Image Credit: Derek Lovley/Ella Maru Studio)
The University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers created an electricity-generating cloud by co...
Future EV batteries could charge in ten minutes. (Image Credit: andreas160578/pixabay)
Sila, a California-based advanced battery materials company, developed Titan Silicon, a battery it claims can charge from 10% to 80% in twenty minutes thanks...
The system produced energy to power fans. (Image Credit: Sage Geosystems)
Renewable energy is now more affordable to generate and use compared to energy produced from oil and gas. However, solar and wind are more problematic due to storage. Sage Ge...
(Image Credit: Leo Chen/Unsplash)
On May 16th, the U.S. Department of Agriculture unveiled plans to invest nearly $11 billion to introduce low-cost renewables to the country's rural communities. Energy utilities, renewable companies, and rural e...
baldengineerrecently discussed his lighting setup, which was causing issues due to color temperature. A few months back, I too was having lighting difficulties for a different purpose and worked on a project which would benefit from nice ...
Anna Vanderbuggen came up with an innovative way to extract black mass from used batteries. (Image Credit: Dimitri_K/pixabay)
The European Institute of Innovation and Technology presented Anna Vanderbuggen, a 29-year-old French researcher, with an ...
Energy Vault says its China-based gravity battery system will be complete in Jube. (Image Credit: Energy Vault)
Gravity batteries are a potential solution for renewable energy sources, including wind and solar power. Energy Vault, a Switzerland-base...
The team’s roll-to-roll coated device uses carbon electrodes rather than gold, making printable solar cells more affordable. (Image Credit: Swansea University)
Engineers from the SPECIFIC Innovation and Knowledge Centre at Swansea Un...
(Image Credit: LeeRosario/pixabay)
I say yes. Cheaper EVs is what it’s all about. EVs are fast, fun to drive with less traditional repair requirements.
I would pay anything for that EV version of the AE86, check it out in a past article. It...
Researchers discovered piezoelectricity in two different liquids. (Image Credit: The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters (2023). DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c00329)
Michigan University chemists accidentally discovered piezoelectric liquids for the f...
The researchers, Ashleigh Kropp (left) and Dr. Rhys Grinter, helped discover the new Huc enzyme. (Image Credit: Monash University)
Monash University researchers recently discovered Huc, a new enzyme that converts air into electricity. According to t...
The new lithium-air battery cell consists of a lithium-metal anode, an air-based cathode, and a solid ceramic polymer electrolyte. (Image Credit: Argonne National Laboratory)
Electric car owners have longed for a battery that allows them to drive ov...
As promised in my post about USB PD - CC decoding adventures, here is the conclusion of my journey to a usable tool to debug USB-PD messages on the CC interface. It also shows that picking the correct opamp characteristics is not only a good idea, bu...
India’s lithium deposit discovery could help it reach the goal of electrifying vehicles by the of the decade. (Image Credit: joenomias/pixabay)
On a global scale, lithium is in high demand due to its role as a key ingredient in batteries power...
Researchers have figured out how to produce hydrogen fuel using seawater. (Image Credit: Sarah Brown/Unsplash)
Researchers at the University of Adelaide have discovered a new way to extract seawater and use it to produce hydrogen fuel without pre-tr...
Vestas developed a new solution to recycle wind turbine blades. (Image Credit: Vestas)
Vestas, a Danish wind turbine maker, recently developed a new solution to recycle turbine blades, especially those in landfills. The company’s solution rev...
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The US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory built MARS (Multi-port autonomous reconfigurable solar power plant), a solar and energy storage system designed to distribute power to AC and DC high-v...
The team developed a coil with different designs to harvest RF leakage. (Image Credit: Cui et al., 10.1145/3560905.3568526)
Many people have started using 5G technology, but worldwide researchers are currently developing 6G telecommunications. Visib...
Toyota unveiled two AE86 care models that run without emitting carbon emissions. (Image Credit: Toyota)
Coolest car on the planet is a 1984 to 1987 Toyota Corolla hatchback? Yes.
I might have a bias since I drive one. However, for those who don&rsqu...
I did it, yes… I used artificial intelligence to make this image. Shocked while looking at wind turbines!
Natural gas supply is being clipped across the European regions, as we all know. However, the UK has shown that perhaps renewables could...
Japan’s largest wind turbine farm went online on December 22nd. (Image Credit: Akita Offshore Wind)
On December 22nd, Japan began operating its first large offshore wind farm, a move geared toward helping the country shift to renewab...
USB Power Delivery (PD) is one of the new exciting features of the latest USB-c connector and standard. The USB host side is adding a power supply called source and the USB device side is adding a sink. PD Communication is happening over one of the 2...
(Image Credit: Gam-Ol/pixabay)
Scientists at the National Ignition Facility recently achieved a breakthrough: generating a nuclear fusion reaction leading to a net energy gain. This experiment inches humanity closer to unlimited clean energy, helpin...
Table of Contents
Introduction
USB-C Click Board
USB-C Power Meter
Mobile Phone Charger
YZXStudio USB-C Power Meter
USB-C Laptop Power Supply
Monolithic Power Systems (MPS) Integrated Circuits
USB-C PD Protocol Analyzer
Soldering Tools
Next Steps...
