Energy storage using the concrete method cost only $0.78 per kilowatt-hour, far below the Department of Energy’s goal of achieving thermal energy storage at a cost of $15 per kilowatt-hour. Engineering researchers at the University

ABB has announced a breakthrough in the ability to interrupt direct current, solving a 100-year-old electrical engineering puzzle and paving the way for a more efficient and reliable electricity supply system. After years of research, ABB

A group of African girls have made an engine that runs on a truly renewable resource: human urine. Over the last two days, Lagos, Nigeria has hosted Maker Faire Africa, the Maker movement’s bastion on that

Long-abandoned bacterial fermentation process resurrected to feed catalysis into fuel mixture A long-abandoned fermentation process once used to turn starch into explosives can be used to produce renewable diesel fuel to replace the fossil fuels

Why spend billions on restringing, burying, or waterproofing power lines?  True post-storm resilience lies in onsite renewable energy. Last week, 8.5 million people in the Northeast lost power, most for days, due to Hurricane Sandy.

The Navy could save approximately 300 to 400 million dollars a year With its strong dependence on gas-turbine engines for propulsion, the U.S. Navy is always looking for ways to improve the fuel consumption of

“Many of the patients are children who live with pacemakers for many years” An experimental device converted energy from a beating heart to provide enough electricity to power a pacemaker , in a study presented

Once producing biofuel from algae is economical, researchers estimate that an area the size of New Mexico could provide enough oil to match current U.S. petroleum consumption It looks like Mother Nature was wasting her

It may seem as though the German plains are all but tapped out when it comes to wind energy production. To refute this theory researchers are sending stunt kites into the skies to harness the

That was only about a third of its theoretical capacity, but three times better than current batteries Researchers at Rice University have refined silicon-based lithium-ion technology by literally crushing their previous work to make a

Researchers have developed a solar cell made entirely of carbon, an inexpensive substitute for the pricey materials used in conventional solar panels. Stanford University scientists have built the first solar cell made entirely of carbon,

The Newberry EGS demonstration is the largest project funded to date by the DOE Geothermal Technologies Program.H aving successfully negotiated the challenging regulatory slopes of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, the U.S. Forest Service,