Bio-electricity from plants could produce as much as 3.2 Watt per square metre of plant growth An unexpected source of new, clean energy has been found: the Plant-Microbial Fuel Cell that ca... Read more
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... Read more
The Backbone of the Electric System “Energy policy” and “clean energy” may be political hot buttons this year, but the technological realities and challenges to achieving energy and environm... Read more
Materials Engineered to Give Off Precisely Tuned Wavelengths of Light When Heated A new photovoltaic energy-conversion system developed at MIT can be powered solely by heat, generating elect... Read more
Leaves – the kind that grow on trees – create energy from sunlight and water through the process of photosynthesis. For over a decade, scientists have been kicking around the idea of creatin... Read more
It would seem kind of strange if you were driving on a back road at night, far from any known source of electricity, when you suddenly came across a working streetlight. Such a thing is poss... Read more
Image via Wikipedia The price of solar panels is falling fast enough to hurt Western manufacturers, but it is not yet low enough to make the sun a competitive source of electricity SOLAR pow... Read more
“There is enough energy in high altitude winds to power civilization 100 times over; and sooner or later, we’re going to learn to tap into the power of winds and use it to run ci... Read more