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China Launches World's Largest Floating Solar Farm
Attempting to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels, China has launched the world’s largest floating solar farm.
VIDEO: Furniture System Moves with the Push of a Button
MIT Media Lab has developed a new furniture system named Ori which transforms your apartment in seconds.
Scientists Propose New Method to Keep New Power Grid Components Safe
Researchers from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, concerned that the software underlying the safe operation of an upgraded grid isn’t keeping up with the technological advances in the physical components of those grids, are proposing a method to correct lagging software in large-scale distribution systems.
Finnish Facility Produces Fuels from Carbon Dioxide
The Soletair demo plant is designed to use carbon dioxide to produce renewable fuels and chemicals.
How the Solar Spectrum Can Satisfy a “Full Earth”
Simultaneously use of different parts of sunlight’s spectrum to produce crops, generate electricity, and purify water on the same piece of land could provide resources in a “full-earth” scenario.
Rusty Steel Mesh Reclaimed as Battery Electrodes
Coin cells made with these new electrodes demonstrate excellent capacity, discharge voltages, and cycle stability.
Thermal Imaging Camera For Your Smart Phone
CompactPRO is an advanced thermal imaging camera designed to plug into your smartphone. Use with your iPhone or Android phone to get high resolution thermal images.
VIDEO: Transformative Food Could Reshape the Way Food is Transported
MIT’s Media Lab and Tangable Media Group have teamed up to revolutionize food printing called the transformative appetite. Using food printing technology, pasta is printed in a 2-D shape that is flat until it is put into boiling water.
Processes Enabling Nanomanufacturing
The processes that nanomanufacturing engineers use to fabricate nanomaterials, nanoelectronic devices and other nanotechnology products depend on their nanotechnology approach and the specific nanotechnology product being manufactured. Two major approaches to nanomanufacturing are top down and bottom up. Nanofabrication processes enable the bottom-up approach. Nanoimprinting and self-assembly processes are newer nanofabrication processes under development. Powder and particle fabrication methods enable the top-down approach.
Detecting Hazardous Radioactive Substances from Even Greater Distances
A new method for detecting hazardous radioactive substances from remote distances has been developed by Professor Eunmi Choi and a team of UNIST researchers.
A New Way to Harness Wind Power Every Day
Scientists from the University of Rhode Island, Florida Atlantic University, USA and Wuhan University China have discovered a new way to collect and use wind power, even if there isn’t any wind.
Insight: a Climatic Case for Nuclear Power
How can we adopt a systemic approach and make sure nuclear energy and other promising zero-carbon power technologies fit together effectively?
Video: Project Wing Just Took a Major Step Toward Successful Drone Delivery
Google‘s Project Wing, a drone and automated aircraft delivery service that is quickly jumping over all the hurdles. This week, the drones successfully passed tests by the FAA and NASA for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS).
The Genetics of Sustainable Power Generation
An algorithm derived from biology may help with the challenge of integrating intermittently-generated power into the electrical grid.
Hybrid Perovskite Solar Cell Demonstrates Stability
A hybrid 2D/3D perovskite solar cell has operated for over a year without loss of performance.
Offshore Wind Turbines May Not Be Able to Withstand Category-5 Winds
Although turbine design standards are regulated by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), there aren’t any guidelines that specifically address hurricane-force winds.
New Study Proves Quantum Satellite Communications is Possible
Researchers from Quantum Computing (IQC) and Astronomy of the University of Waterloo, Ontario in Canada have reached a breakthrough in enabling secure quantum communication via satellites.
Scientists Develop New Approach for More Stable Power Generation
Like an island, microgrids are isolated pods of power generation linking to the main power grid. If there is an interruption of power from the main grid, the microgrid can disconnect and continue to supply power locally.
Scientists Develop Algorithm That Could Create More Reliable Wind Power
A team of scientists from University of Connecticut and ABB Inc. has developed a new two-prong approach that ensures wind power won’t die down as a renewable energy source.
Facility to Provide Wind Testing for Cold Climates
Sited in Sweden, the center will offer full-scale testing, research, verification, and certification of new generations of wind turbines and subsystems in cold climates.