Company’s breakthrough technology uses sunlight, water and carbon dioxide to produce, clean, renewable natural gas HyperSolar, Inc. the developer of a breakthrough technology to make renewable natural gas using solar power, today announced that it has filed a patent application for the production of renewable natural gas using sunlight, water and carbon dioxide. This renewable natural gas is a clean, carbon neutral methane gas that can be used as a direct replacement for traditional...
Japan, a revolutionary new technology, Magnesium Energy Cycle could one day free society from dependence on fossil fuels. The demonstration conducted by Tokyo Institute of Technology Professor Takashi Yabe uses water and the common metallic element Magnesium to create pollution-free power. Solar-powered lasers are used to renew the magnesium fuel with the only waste product being oxygen. Professor Yabe’s team at TIT has been steadily testing the technology for several years now, and the...
Why settle for one form of renewable energy when you can produce power with two? That’s exactly what scientists from the University of Liverpool have done by upgrading an everyday wind turbine with a new set of spinning solar blades. The team, led by Dr. Joe King, came up with the innovative solution to stymie critics who say wind turbines are “only useful when the wind is blowing” — their design doubles the functionality...
At his house in the woods of western New Jersey, the civil engineer Mike Strizki uses fuel cells to convert the power generated by about 150 solar panels so that it can be stored in 11 hydrogen tanks about 100 yards from the house. For eight or nine months of the year, the photovoltaic cells mounted on Strizki’s workshop roof and scattered around his yard generate more than enough electricity for a full range...
As the U.S. government continues to heap billions in subsidies to the world’s wealthiest coal and oil companies, the solar industry has been struggling to make it in the United States. This is sad for many reasons, not the least of which is that we’re missing out on one of the biggest growth industries in the world. Currently there are 16 gigawatts of installed solar power globally. That number will grow to about 1,800...
Nevada could soon be home to the tallest molten salt tower in the world, and it doesn’t want to hear any jokes about possible Vegas-Sodom-Gomorrah-Lot’s wife connections. This is all about energy: clean solar power and cutting-edge energy storage. The Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project is on its way to moving forward now that the US Department of Energy (DOE) has offered a conditional commitment for a $737 million load guarantee for the proposed...
A pair of researchers from Zhejiang University (China) have synthesized layered MoS2/graphene (MoS2/G) composites using a facile biomolecular-assisted process for use as high-performance anode materials in Li-ion batteries. The MoS2/G composite with a Mo:C molar ratio of 1:2 exhibited the highest specific capacity of ~1100 mAh/g at a current of 100 mA/g, as well as excellent cycling stability and high-rate capability. In a paper published in the journal ACS Nano, researchers Kun Chang and...
Portland, Maine’s new airport expansion is to be the first in the country to use a dead-simple but often overlooked technology to significantly reduce its heating and cooling bills. They’re calling it a geothermal system, but it’s not like the kind that produce power in Iceland; it’s more properly called a “ground-source heat pump.” With a $2.5 million VALE grant, the innovative, geothermal heating and cooling system that will save the 137,000 square foot...
The evidence in support of Andrea Rossi’s “cold fusion” or “LENR” (low energy nuclear reaction) based Energy Catalyzer continues to grow. For those who are not aware, his system combines nickel powder, hydrogen gas, and an input of pressure and heat to produce a large output of thermal energy. On March 29th, 2011 yet another test of the technology was performed at the University of Bologna. Like previous tests, the outcome was a complete...
Your next laptop could have a continuous power battery that lasts for 30 years without a single recharge thanks to work being funded by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory. The breakthrough betavoltaic power cells are constructed from semiconductors and use radioisotopes as the energy source. As the radioactive material decays it emits beta particles that transform into electric power capable of fueling an electrical device like a laptop for years. Although betavoltaic batteries...
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