Leviton introduces 32A, 240V home charging station
Leviton unveiled the Evr-Green 320 Level 2 Home Charging Station, its latest member of the Evr-Green line of residential, commercial and public electric vehicle charging systems. The new device...
View ArticleVestas to install research wind turbine at Sandia facility in Texas
The initial phase of Sandia National Laboratories’ Scaled Wind Farm Technology facility (SWIFT), currently being constructed in partnership with Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, will be a...
View ArticleToshiba to make electric bus with 5-minute charge
Toshiba Corp. will be developing an electric-powered bus with a charge time of just five minutes. In cooperation with Tokyo’s Minato Ward, the electronics giant will retrofit small buses owned by the...
View ArticleRivers flowing into the sea offer vast potential as electricity source
A new genre of electric power-generating stations could supply electricity for more than a half billion people by tapping just one-tenth of the global potential of a little-known energy source that...
View ArticleDONG Energy to test new next-generation turbines in the UK
DONG Energy has received full consent to test two next generation offshore wind turbines at their Gunfleet Sands site in South East England. It is the first time that the Siemens 6 MW turbine will be...
View ArticleEnergy development at US dams could power more than 4 million homes
In a study of the energy-producing potential of untapped US dams, Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers found that 54,000 dams not currently used to generate power have the capacity to generate...
View ArticleGas Technology Institute showcases IH2 biomass-to-liquid hydrocarbon fuel...
The Gas Technology Institute (GTI) hosted an open house at its new Pilot-Scale IH2 Plant in Chicago, Illinois to demonstrate the successful efforts to broaden biomass-to-liquid hydrocarbon fuel...
View ArticleIBM research boosts Battery 500 Project with new partners
IBM announced that industry leaders Asahi Kasei and Central Glass will join its Battery 500 project. They will collaborate on extensive research in hopes of the potential to switch from gasoline to...
View ArticleNew features in solar material could lead to the next generation in solar...
The impending scarcity of many valuable resources on our planet has had people searching for and utilizing other energy sources. Although researchers have studied and noted the the viability of wind...
View ArticleThe smart grid gets "smarter" with new automated software
The nation's current electric grid is so backward and inflexible that to integrate more sources of renewable energy ironically requires more power plants. Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National...
View ArticleCow manure makes its way into "clean" technology
Synergy Dairy owner John Noble has will not only be selling milk to local cheese factories this year, but has also incorporated cow manure as an added opportunity venture. Noble’s farm, Synergy Dairy,...
View ArticlePower generation technology based on piezoelectric nanocomposite materials...
A team at Korean Advanced Institute of Technology (KAIST) has developed new forms of low cost, large-area nanogenerator technology using piezoelectric ceramic nanoparticles. This...
View ArticleButterfly wing-based technology creates new developments for energy use
Professor Shin Jung Hoon’s team from the Department of Physics and the Graduate School of Nanoscience and Technology at the Korean Advanced Institute of Technology (KAIST) produced a display that...
View ArticleNanotechnology: Smaller materials create a big impact on modern technology
Since the onset of the Industrial Revolution, the economy has revolved around supply and demand, encouraging the development of new inventions to improve efficiency, thus beginning the origins and...
View ArticleElectrons need smooth sailing to navigate semiconductors
A new study has found that small bumps have an unexpectedly large effect on the paths that electrons follow on the semiconductor gallium arsenide. This nano-effect is of significant interest towards...
View ArticleGE goes green with a new "vehicle innovation center"
General Electric’s “Vehicle Innovation Center,” as it is called, opens for business today in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. Customers can test on a private GE track Chevy Volts, Nissan Leafs and other...
View ArticleGasification may convert mesquite and juniper wood to a usable bioenergy
Research conducted by Texas Agrilife at Texas A&M University suggests that biomass gasification is being considered as a possible technology for converting at least 10 million acres of Texas...
View ArticleClean tech boost in Silicon Valley
The City of San Jose and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) are partnering to accelerate the advancement of clean energy technologies and helping to achieve environmental...
View ArticleBringing down the cost of fuel cells
Engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) have discovered a catalyst that provides the same level of efficiency in microbial fuel cells (MFCs) as the currently used platinum catalyst,...
View ArticleStudy estimates costs of mesquite biomass delivery for bioenergy use
Texas AgriLife Research scientists are studying the costs of getting potential bioenergy sources such as mesquite to the processed stage. The costs of feedstock delivered to a fictional wood-fired...
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