Source: sciencealert.com Published: February 10, 2017 Scientists have discovered that a certain type of mineral has the right properties to extract energy from multiple sources at the same time – turning solar, heat, and kinetic energy into electricity. The mineral is...
Source: smithsonianmag.com Published: October 26, 2016 Maanasa Mendu, of Mason, Ohio, presents HARVEST, her prototype renewable energy-gathering device, at the 2016 Young Scientist Challenge. (Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge) By Nathan Hurst The 2016...
Source: theguardian.com Published: January 5, 2017 The Water&Solar100 cooker, which has automatic sun tracking, and temperature and timing controls. Photograph: Wilfred Fritz Kate Hodal Solar cookers have been promoted as a safe alternative to boil water, cook...
Source: odditycentral.com Published: April 6, 2017 By Spooky Scientists in Germany recently turned on the “world’s largest artificial sun” a device made up of 149 Xenon short-arc lamps that can create about 10,000 times the amount of solar radiation we get on Earth....
Source: treehugger.com Published: April 26, 2017 Video screen capture YouTube By Megan Treacy There is no shortage of great off-grid renewable power sources for your outdoor adventures from rugged solar chargers to the famous BioLite stove that charges your gadgets as...
Source: theguardian.com Published: February 26, 2017 Kingsley Chen, the drone fleet coordinator at SunPower, demonstrates the use of a drone to survey land for designing a solar power plant. Photograph: Robert Durrell/The Guardian Katie Fehrenbacher A cottage industry...
Source: collective-evolution.com Published: February 20, 2017 By Alexa Erickson Stanford University researchers have created a new battery that could change the way we look at renewable energy storage forever. The team used urea, an affordable, natural, and...
Source: ecowatch.com Published: February 8, 2017 Lorraine Chow Texas A&M students, teachers and staff no longer have to worry about cycling the campus’ busy Bizzell and Ross intersection at night thanks to an innovative glow-in-the-dark bike lane. The university...
Source: inhabitat.com Published: January 30, 2017 In these uncertain times of erratic weather and changing climate patterns, net-zero energy (or NZE) is quickly becoming the gold standard in green building. If you can generate all of your own energy on site, you never...
