Eric Giler wants to untangle our wired lives with cable-free electric power. Here, he covers what this sci-fi tech offers, and demos MIT’s breakthrough version, WiTricity — a nea... Read more
Teaming up with regenerative-power company Lichtblick, it aims to install 100,000 co-generation power units in Germany Read more
Solar cells could become more efficient and less expensive, thanks to the development of tapered nanopillar semiconductors that are narrow at the top and wide at the bottom. Created by chemi... Read more
Image via Wikipedia Electric tech could make plugs obsolete. A system that can deliver power to devices without the need for wires has been shown off at a hi-tech conference. The technique e... Read more
Image via Wikipedia Some argue that major technical breakthroughs are needed to make electricity from sunshine cheap. Are they right? Do the photovoltaics that can transform sunshine into el... Read more
Working within the Holst Centre program on Micropower Generation and Storage, researchers have developed a small piezoelectric device capable of harvesting 85 microwatts of electricity from... Read more