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06/13/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Water-based battery with potential to store solar and wind energy developed by researchers

In a Stanford News article, researchers have invented a cheap water-based battery. If successful, a much bigger version will serve solar and wind farms, storing excess electricity for later redistribution in the power grid. The three-inch tall prototype stores enough power for a small LED flashlight. The researchers believe they can scale up this initial design […]

06/13/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Explaining why perovskite solar cells are efficient

Perovskites are a class of materials that have come to dominate photovoltaic technology in a surprisingly short amount of time. An article in Alpha Galileo states that their combination of excellent efficiency and affordable cost come from their excitonic properties. “In less than one decade, these perovskites underwent an outstanding development,” remarked Dr. Michael Hetterich […]

06/07/2018 / By David Williams

Norway’s shipbuilders begin to fully embrace battery technology for newest ferry boats

Now that the world has begun the long and arduous process of switching to all-electric vehicles, interesting iterations of traditional fuel-based cars are beginning to appear. But what about boats? Is there room in the world for water-bound vehicles that are powered exclusively through batteries? One group of Norwegian shipbuilders seems to think so. In […]

06/02/2018 / By Edsel Cook

German aerospace expert says that electric planes may be in our very near future

Tesla e-cars are prowling the U.S. highways, while the roads of Chinese cities are filling up with electric buses. Soon it will be the turn of the electric plane to take to the skies. In a Deutsche Welle article, a German aerospace expert believes we will see e-planes offering short-range regional flights within two decades. Josef Kallo is […]

04/07/2018 / By Edsel Cook

The solar energy industry is exploding with new technologies, including “solar paint”

Solar power has come a long way from when Bell Labs presented the first photovoltaic cell in 1954. Researchers are brainstorming all kinds of ways to improve the collection of solar energy, reported Green America. For example, Los Angeles-based startup Sunflare has developed solar panels that are incredibly thin, flexible, and light. They replaced the traditional silicon […]

03/28/2018 / By David Williams

One step closer to stable fusion reactors: Scientists have created “quantum ball lightning” in the lab

Lightning and thunder go hand in hand. When you see a lightning bolt fly across the sky, you can be sure that you will hear a thunderclap shortly after that. But there is another natural phenomenon that occurs when lightning and thunder strike: Ball lightning. Now scientists have figured out a way to create it […]

02/25/2018 / By David Williams

Researchers have developed a “highly stretchable rechargeable lithium ion battery” for the next generation of wearable electronics

The next generation of wearable electronic devices may carry one new innovation in tow: stretchable lithium-ion batteries. Currently, the typical wearable is powered by conventional types of batteries, meaning that devices usually have to be built around the battery itself. Batteries count as one of the major components of most electronic devices, so this really […]

02/18/2018 / By David Williams

Scientists create customizable power source for wearable electronics that can be folded, cut, and stretched without losing functionality

Wearable technology has certainly come a long way ever since they first hit the mainstream market a few years back. But even now, researchers from all over the world are working to reinvent it in ways that will give users more benefits at much lesser costs. The latest advancement in the world of wearables comes […]

02/05/2018 / By David Williams

Scientists create world’s smallest electro-optic modulator, potentially saving enormous amounts of energy in data centers

One of the longest running trends in the realm of technological innovation involves taking something that works, throwing out the things that aren’t necessary, and making the size of the original much smaller in a newer version. This miniaturization has been a staple of most “new” tech, and now it has finally been applied to […]

01/04/2018 / By Frances Bloomfield

Cool multi-use invention: Street lamp powered by dog poop has proven to be a successful green energy and waste management combo in the U.K.

From littering walkways and streets to illuminating them, dog poop may soon be fueling streetlamps across the United Kingdom. That’s already happening in Malvern Hills, an iconic landscape in England and home of the United Kingdom’s first dog poop-powered street lamp. The brainchild of Brian Harper, a member of the environmental group Transition Malvern Hills, […]

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