The grizzled asteroid miner is a stock character in science fiction. Now, a couple of recent events – one legal and the other technological – have brought asteroid mining a step closer to re... Read more
Most urban wind turbines don’t do much but putter in the breeze. This idea puts them in a place where they can turn Wind turbines often don’t work well on top of buildings. With... Read more
The lopsided solar car named Generation, unveiled today, might be the oddest-looking vehicle the top-ranked University of Michigan team has ever built. But the bold shape is a calculated eff... Read more
A new technique could help keep dust off of solar cells, a major obstacle that reduces the efficiency of photovoltaic panels. The technique, developed by Sergey Biryukov, a researcher at the... Read more
V3Solar has developed a cone-shaped solar energy harvester that is claimed to generate over 20 times more electricity than a flat panel For the vast majority of those looking to harvest ener... Read more
He’s a young man from Egypt who refused to give in to hard conditions that threatened his passion for science. Though the unprofessional educational system forced him to study something he d... Read more
There’s clearly a market for long-duration ocean going robots A mola, or ocean sunfish, is a very big, very flat, and (in this reporter’s opinion) rather silly looking tropical b... Read more
This new compound should become very commercially attractive The same type of microwave oven technology that most people use to heat up leftover food has found an important application in th... Read more
Access to drinking water is a major issue in the developing world, especially in Africa, where dirty water kills more people than violence. Solar water purification is a tried and true metho... Read more
They can be produced in high volume at low cost UCLA researchers have developed a new transparent solar cell that is an advance toward giving windows in homes and other buildings the ability... Read more
The team is now looking to find new applications for this technology. Borrowing technology from sophisticated telescope mirrors as well as high-efficiency solar cells used for space explorat... Read more
bSolar claims up to 30 percent higher energy yields in more typical installations Israeli photovoltaics developer bSolar has developed a double-sided solar cell it claims can boost the energ... Read more
Such power-generating windows offer potential as a cheap source of solar energy On 5 July Jan Willem Wiegman is graduating from TU Delft with his research into power-generating windows. The... Read more
You could feed solar, wind and diesel into this system to ensure the availability of power CURRENTLY used in remote communities to regulate the unreliable electricity supply, the Grid Power... Read more
Sandia developed tiny glitter-sized photovoltaic (PV) cells that could revolutionize solar energy collection. The crystalline silicon micro-PV cells will be cheaper and have greater e... Read more