Source: nytimes.com Published: June 3, 2017 What if you need a battery? A really big one — big enough to run a city? By Diane Cardwell and Andrew Roberts It’s a question that inventors have been tackling for decades. No one wants the fridge, or the hospital, going on...
Source: energystar.gov Published: June 7, 2017 The ENERGY STAR® Emerging Technology Award (ETA) is given to innovative technologies that meet rigorous performance criteria to reduce energy use and lower greenhouse gas emissions. The U.S. Environmental Protection...
Source: weforum.org Published: October 27, 2016 From hamburgers to plastic, new technologies are reinventing the products we consume on a daily basis. Gill Cassar Take a look around you. Many of the products you see were made using industrial processes that are at...
Source: treehugger.com Published: June 1, 2017 CC BY 2.0 F. Lamiot By Derek Markham The company that makes “shoes for people who don’t want to wear them” is introducing a new model of adventure shoe constructed with EVA foam made from algae biomass. As far as modern...
Source: army.mil Published: April 13, 2016 The Battalion-scale Waste to Energy Conversion Green Energy Machine converts 3 tons of trash into 100 gross kilowatts of energy. (Photo Credit: Danielle Davis) By Danielle Davis FORT BENNING, Ga. — Fort Benning is helping the...
Source: huffingtonpost.com Published: May 18, 2017 An image shows how Roosegaarde’s design would funnel smog in, and push out clean air. Rendering courtesy of Dan Roosegaarde For Architectural Digest, by Nick Mafi. Dubbed the Smog Free bicycle, the invention works by...
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: newatlas.com Published: May 12, 2017 New Atlas spoke to Dr. Tom Denniss, the CEO of Wave Swell Energy, about the company’s new system designed to harvest electricity from ocean waves. Wave Swell Energy By Michael Irving Wind and solar power are becoming...
Source: smithsonianmag.com Published: March 15, 2017 Taking advantage of temperatures upwards of 1,000 Celsius, these hot solar cells could produce twice as much energy as the industry standard The prototype (MIT) By Emily Matchar Solar panels have been around for a...
Source: ecodyst.com Published: July 16, 2016 STANFORD UNI Rotary evaporators (“rotavaps”) have for decades been staples in labs and industries performing chemistry, including labs in the chemical, environmental, materials, life science, and forensics industries. Key...
