“Our hydraulic power plant can be constructed in two months time and costs US $654 per kW” VADODARA: If this invention of budding engineers from the city makes its way to... Read more
Jerry Brous of Sequim, Wash., participated in a study to determine whether giving people more information about their electricity use and costs will prompt them to save energy. Giving people... Read more
Image via Wikipedia Theoretical models suggest ways for optimizing artificial photosynthesis to turn light into energy the way plants do Plants take advantage of quantum mechanics to harvest... Read more
The principle of harnessing osmosis has the potential to produce enormous amounts of energy anywhere that salt water and fresh water meet. We looked at some of the approaches to turning this... Read more
Teaming up with regenerative-power company Lichtblick, it aims to install 100,000 co-generation power units in Germany Read more
Salt-loving algae could be the key to the successful development of biofuels as well as being an efficient means of recycling atmospheric carbon dioxide, according to one researcher. 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
Image via Wikipedia Improving turbines, which lie at the core of a modern power grid, is all about standing up to the heat At the spinning heart of the modern electric grid lies what used to... Read more
Image via Wikipedia The United States could completely stop emissions of carbon dioxide from coal-fired electric power plants — a crucial step for controlling global warming — wi... Read more
Image via Wikipedia Take a huge oceanic catamaran, stick a hydroelectric turbine underneath it, and hitch it to a 6.5 million-square-foot parafoil flying nearly a mile in the air. That’s a K... Read more