New Solar Panel Kit Could Make Solar Easier for Homeowners

New Solar Panel Kit Could Make Solar Easier for Homeowners

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There’s a new solar panel kit for homeowners out there. It’s a new system that simply plugs into a 230V wall plug and provides power for your home. We interviewed Jim Greene, founder of SpinRay [...]

Make Your Own Supercapacitor with an Ordinary DVD

Make Your Own Supercapacitor with an Ordinary DVD

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Enable a new generation of high-performance portable electronics and solar cells You are this close to the breakthrough energy storage technology of the next millennium if you a) have a computer, b) buy a blank [...]

MIT Student Wins Award for Innovative Solar Printing Technology

MIT Student Wins Award for Innovative Solar Printing Technology

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This breakthrough “could lead to widespread adoption of solar power.” MIT student Miles Barr was just announced as one of the Lemelson-MIT Student Prize winners for an innovative solar technology ‘breakthrough’. Barr was awarded $30,000, as were two [...]

Nanotechnology Catapults Battery Technology Forward, Once Again

Nanotechnology Catapults Battery Technology Forward, Once Again

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The electrodes exhibited 99% efficiency – 40,000 cycles   Yi Cui, a Stanford University professor of materials science and engineering, has led researchers to yet another breakthrough in battery technology, but this time, it is [...]

Fish-Friendly Hydropower

Fish-Friendly Hydropower

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Converts 94% of the water’s energy into electricity, with 98% survival of fish   Obama administration stimulus funding for renewable energy has resulted in yet another clean energy breakthrough. This time, in hydropower, with the [...]

Teen’s invention boosts solar panel output 40 percent

Teen’s invention boosts solar panel output 40 percent

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She could teach Kenyan children how to construct and fix the device if it breaks Eden Full, a 19-year-old Princeton University mechanical engineering student has developed a non-toxic, cheap, recyclable device made out of metal [...]

ZenRobotics Recycler Released

ZenRobotics Recycler Released

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The waste management industry and robots are getting to know each other better, especially when it comes to the business of recycling. ZenRobotics, a Finnish high-tech company founded in 2007 has released its initial signature [...]

“Drill, Baby, Drill” Can Store Gigawatts of Renewable Energy

“Drill, Baby, Drill” Can Store Gigawatts of Renewable Energy

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Gravity Power is testing a novel kind of energy storage with potential gigawatt-scale capacity – that uses simple mechanics and gravity underground – at a first test site in Santa Barbara. Their Gravity Power Modules would [...]

An Unlikely Renewable Bottleneck: Machines to Harvest Weeds

An Unlikely Renewable Bottleneck: Machines to Harvest Weeds

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We are at a point in history when innovations are needed rivaling those of the information technology industry in speed of change – for the development of farm machinery for growing and harvesting new crops [...]

Folding Plants Inspire Next Generation of Shape Shifting Robots

Folding Plants Inspire Next Generation of Shape Shifting Robots

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Sustainable tech is becoming a  green job-creating engine for people, and it’s creating new green jobs for robots, too. If the latest research out of the University of Michigan and University of Pennsylvania is any indicator, [...]

World's Most Gorgeous Sewage Treatment Plant Will be Put INSIDE an Office Building

World’s Most Gorgeous Sewage Treatment Plant Will be Put INSIDE an Office Building

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A new office building for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission is going to be home to a whole raft of green building technologies that are becoming pretty familiar, along with something a little unexpected: [...]

DARPA Kickstarts Space Exploration with 100-Year Starship Project

DARPA Kickstarts Space Exploration with 100-Year Starship Project

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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has launched a new program in collaboration with NASA that is sure to intrigue Trekkieseverywhere. Called the 100-Year Starship Study, it’s designed to lay out what it would take to create an [...]