To control the initial current in the flyback,(DCM) is it better to increase the number of revolutions and frequencies relatively or to limit the duty cycle?
SkySail Power’s airborne wind turbine can generate electricity in high elevations. (Courtesy of SkySails Group)
One day, massive sails could become another clean energy solution. German startup SkySails Power installed a software-con...
Lift Energy Storage Technology involves transforming tall buildings into batteries that can provide power for urban settings. (Image Credit: Energy (2022). DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2022.124102)
Now that renewable energy generation costs are decreasing,...
The prototype PC contains blue-green algae to power the ARM Cortex M0+ microprocessor. (Image Credit: Cambridge University/Paolo Bombelli)
Depletion of resources has me worried, but when I learn about developments like this, I'm put at ease.
Cambrid...
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Today's solar panels are produced with silicon and have limited room for improvement. Higher efficiency solar panels are required to help shift to clean energy. Scientists at the University of Cologne say they ...
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It’s like someone applied their childhood “hide the mess in the closet” bedroom cleaning tactic to the atmosphere.
The world’s biggest companies, including Facebook and Google, plan ...
These autonomous buoys can detect a whale’s presence by listening to their calls. (Image Credit: Morgan Visalli/WHOI)
Yellow autonomous buoys from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI) have been bobbling in ocean waters off the US East...
Image shows a field of manganese nodules in the Pacific Ocean. (Image Credit: NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, 2015 Hohonu Moana)
I thought deep sea mining was the salvation the world’s resources need. I was very glowie writing t...
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New Lithium production techniques could contribute to cleaner battery development for various applications ranging from smartphones to electric vehicles. Car manufacturers, mining companies, and investors, such a...
The Solar Desalination Skylight transforms seawater into clean drinking water and covers the remaining salt brine into energy. (Image Credit: Henry Glogau)
Humanity has a thriving need for clean, safe drinking water. However, many communities around...
Tokamak Energy announced that its ST-40 reactor achieved an impressive temperature threshold for nuclear fusion. (Image Credit: Tokamak Energy)
Every year, the U.S. sees a 9% increase in energy prices, which means that more affordable fossil fuel al...
Form Energy has introduced the iron-air battery as their first step toward zero-carbon energy solutions. (Credit: Form Energy)
Lithium-ion batteries, while a modern mainstay in energy storage technology used from smartphones to electric cars, is cos...
Quaise says it wants to dig into the center of the Earth to tap into geothermal energy, bringing it to large populations around the world. (Image Credit: Quaise/YouTube)
Isn’t this the plot point of countless giant monster/ancient evil movies?...
The device continuously generates electricity by absorbing solar radiation and cooling. (Image Credit: STAM)
Scientists from Japan's National Institute for Materials Science developed a magnetic hybrid device capable of continuously generating elect...
The new rubber-like material can absorb and release large amounts of energy by using a phase shift. (Image Credit: University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst unveiled a new, programmable rubber-like...
Lithium-ion batteries are at the heart of so many industries, endemic to modern life, and the demand for them is only set to grow. Yet continued production of new batteries leads to a host of concerns—for one, establishing new mines is an expe...
Cow manure could be used by various companies and farms to produce sustainable, clean electricity. (Image Credit: nosita/pixabay)
Break a deal - face the wheel. This news reminded me of Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome’s future, where pig manure was...
British Lithium's pilot plant incorporates all processing stages, from quarrying to lithium carbonate production. (Image credit: British Lithium)
Lithium is depleting faster than anyone every imagined. It'll have to be sourced elsewhere in t...
NASA’s Curiosity rover features a nuclear battery that uses thermoelectric materials to convert heat into electricity. (Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS)
Transitioning to clean energy has become urgent now that humanity must find a way to l...
Tesla’s Nevada Gigafactory is one of the only plants in the US that produces battery cells for electric vehicles. (Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons)
The Department of Energy says thirteen new electric vehicle battery gigafactories are expected ...
The Cuk converter, invented in about 1977 by Dr. Slobodan Cuk of Caltech, is called an Optimum Topology Converter and has a zero input ripple and zero output ripple characteristic. It's a cascade of a boost converter with a buck converter ...
A PWM waveform is, of course, a modulated rectangular wave with the bottom at zero volts (typically). This differs from a square wave where the center of the waveform is at zero and the bottom is at a negative voltage. This blog will discuss how to c...
GAF Energy recently launched Timberline Solar, which contains solar cells within a shingle. (Image Credit: GAF Energy)
This is what I want to see everywhere. A simple solar solution - deployable over every roof.
What if, instead of traditional shing...
The TMD solar cells on a flexible substrate achieve 5.1% power conversion efficiencies. (Image Credit: Koosha Nassiri Nazif/Stanford University)
Stanford University researchers developed new transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) that ach...
There's a fundamental difference between an inductor used for AC without any DC current, and an inductor that can pass DC current and still function as an inductor. Most AC inductors would saturate with more than a few milliamps of DC current. A DC I...
