‘Innovation economics‘ is propelling a global hunt for inventions that can extend the frontiers of renewable generation. First comes invention then comes prosperity. That’s... Read more
Wide-Scale Adoption of Technology Could Help Meet Increasing Global Demand for Renewable Fuels and Chemicals A team of scientists from Bio Architecture Lab (BAL), has developed breakt... Read more
Airborne launch platforms that can send small satellites into orbit within 24 hours U.S. military operations rely heavily upon satellites to spy on battlefields and coordinate friendl... Read more
DARPA robots that may someday be our new overlords One part of the Department of Defense is hard at work researching technology that is alternately amazing, bizarre, and downright scary. You... Read more
What’s new, and old, about the latest in computing Today IBM unveiled a new ‘cognitive computing’ microchip that, according to the company, emulates some of the brain... Read more
Inventing the future of energy may be key to improving U.S. national security, economic prosperity and health. Flexible solar cells now power communications equipment used by U.S. Marines fi... Read more
ARPA-e funds potential breakthrough work to make energy-dense batteries that enable long distance travel Lithium spontaneously combusts in air, yet the battery in your computer—and any of th... Read more
New ideas for making sodium sulfur batteries could make them the answer for taming the variability of wind and solar power. EaglePicher Technologies, a manufacturer of specialized batteries... Read more
Image via Wikipedia Research into capacitors for use in hybrid vehicles, EVs, computer power supplies and pacemakers has been given a boost in the order of US$2.25 million. Professor Gerhard... Read more
Image via Wikipedia Most research on renewable energy has focused on replacing the electricity that now comes from burning coal and natural gas. But the spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the reli... Read more
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded a contract for up to $34.5 million to The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., to... Read more
Image via CrunchBase Here’s how to make a solar cell from silicon: take one solid block of doped silicon, saw it into thin wafers, layer said semiconductors beneath a panel of transpar... Read more
Liquid batteries, giant lasers, and vast new reserves of natural gas highlight the fundamental energy advances of the past 12 months. With many renewable energy companies facing hard financi... Read more