In Advanced Functional Materials, the study shows that single plant leaves can generate more than 150 volts; a ‘hybrid tree’ made of natural and artificial leaves can act as an i... Read more
Cheaper renewable electricity with a new material and manufacturing process that uses the sun’s heat
Solar power accounts for less than 2 percent of U.S. electricity but could make up more than that if the cost of electricity generation and energy storage for use on cloudy days and at night... Read more
Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a super-hydrophobic surface that can be used to generate electrical voltage. When salt water flows over this specially patt... Read more
Thanks to the discovery of a new material by University of Utah engineers, jewelry such as a ring and your body heat could generate enough electricity to power a body sensor, or a cooking pa... Read more
The bacterial world is rife with unusual talents, among them a knack for producing electricity. In the wild, “electrogenic” bacteria generate current as part of their metabolism,... Read more
Researchers at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) have designed and patented a floating platform for offshore wind turbin... Read more
Massive deployment of storage not needed for renewable sources to play large ‘decarbonization’ role Much of the nation’s energy policy is premised on the assumption that cl... Read more
UC Riverside researchers find a way to use the infrared region of the sun’s spectrum to make solar cells more efficient When it comes to installing solar cells, labor cost and the cost... Read more
The development of affordable and efficient ceramic fuel cells that could be used to power homes, the culmination of five years worth of work by Colorado School of Mines researchers, is feat... Read more
New clean energy source produces electricity, could power robots, sensors and vehicles An immensely powerful yet invisible force pulls water from the earth to the top of the tallest redwood... Read more
Norway’s first full-scale facility for CO2 capture may be built at Norcem’s cement factory in Brevik. Four technologies are being tested. Membrane-based technology developed at NTNU is one o... Read more
Graphene layer one atom thick could quadruple rate of condensation heat transfer in generating plants. Most of the world’s electricity-producing power plants — whether powered by coal, natur... Read more
Ricoh today announced that it has created a novel flexible material “Energy-Generating Rubber” that converts pressure and vibration into electric energy with high efficiency. Cur... Read more
Up to 80 percent more cost effective to maintain – supposedly has a greater than 50 percent manufacturing cost advantage and a 40 percent reduction in its carbon footprint compared to... Read more
Nontoxic solution could cut water use in half for enhanced geothermal systems More American homes could be powered by the earth’s natural underground heat with a new, nontoxic and pote... Read more
