A South Korean university has come one step closer to developing wireless power by improving both efficiency and transmission distance, a breakthorugh which its developers believe could lead to wireless energy becoming as popular as WiFi in the not to distant future.
A report from the UK's Public Accounts Committee claims that clean-up costs at the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing field have risen by £2.5bn in the last year. Julian Turner analyses the complex decommissioning process and asks why the mammoth project continues to be beset by delays.
$1.8bn Agua Caliente Solar farm is a 290MW photovoltaic (PV) power project located in the east Yuma County of Arizona, US. It is owned by NRG Energy and MidAmerican Energy Holdings and is currently the world's biggest photovoltaic solar power plant.
A Utah-based company has found a new way to store solar energy
- in a small ceramic disk which can store more power for less. Researchers at Ceramatec have created the disk, which can hold up to 20-kilowatt hours, enough to power an entire house for a large portion of the day.
Stirling Energy Systems claims it has come up with a new solar thermal system that is simpler than other versions of the technology and will make the energy cheaper. The company plans to start building large solar power plants using this design within the next year.
A new class of economically viable solar power cells--cheap, flexible and easy to make--has come a step closer to reality as a result of recent work at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, where scientists have deepened their understanding of the complex organic films at the heart of the devices.
Racing against other companies around the globe, International Battery isn the front lines of an effort to build smaller, lighter, more powerful batteries that could help transform the American energy economy by replacing gasoline in cars and making windmills and solar cells easier to integrate into the power grid.
Visionary design to incorporate wave energy in NY harbor, while simultaneously increasing green space and tide pool habitats!
So great that they are showing that not only can sustainable technology be viable and affordable, but beautiful and artistic as well
The Versatile System: a fully featured algae-powered energy system that combines a dozen new and existing technologies to treat waste, produce methane and bio-oil for fuel, produce food for humans and livestock, sequester greenhouse gases, and produce oxygen. Invented by 15-yr old Javier Fernandez-Han