Energy from seawater: power generator autonomously switches between two functional modes Underwater vehicles, diving robots, and detectors require their own energy supply to operate for long... Read more
Unhappy with the life of your smartphone battery? Thought so. Help could be on the way from one of the most common, yet poorly understood, forms of power generation: static electricity. “Nea... Read more
Researchers from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) have developed procedures and designs to obtain energy from marine currents in areas of great depths optimizing the costs. The new de... Read more
A new study reveals the urgent need to address instabilities in the supply of electrical power to counteract an increase in the frequency and severity of urban blackouts. Research by Hugh By... Read more
The accelerating change of technology we use commercially and personally is dramatically increasing the global demand for electric power. As consumers, we’re gulping power at an alarming rat... Read more
Photovoltaic panels can be well worth the investment even if you live in a winter wonderland. Snow and solar cells aren’t mutually exclusive, according to a Michigan Technological Univ... Read more
Such incinerators are making progress in the U.S. but critics remain From the sidewalk there’s almost no evidence that behind the walls of the energy-from-waste plant in Alexandria, Va... Read more
Image via Wikipedia The Technische Universität Darmstadt has dedicated a pilot plant for capturing carbon dioxide contained in flue gases of power plants. Its Institute for Energy Systems an... Read more
Small Is Beautiful in Hydroelectric Power Plant Design Hydroelectric power is the oldest and the “greenest” source of renewable energy. In Germany, the potential would appear to... Read more
Despite numerous refinements and improvements to the technology used to harness the power of the wind, windmills of old share an obvious characteristic with their gigantic modern counterpart... Read more
A number of kinetic energy chargers have been hitting the market in recent years including the nPower PEG. Researchers have also been working to improve the technology, developing such devic... Read more