Researchers suggest smart solution to harness waste heat from industry
Norway wastes huge amounts of energy. Surplus heat produced by industry is hardly exploited at all.
Jun 27, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
News tagged with mechanical energy
Robotics
Integrating actuation and sensing for smarter soft robots
The world of robotics is witnessing a transformative shift with the rise of soft robotics, which offers unparalleled flexibility and adaptability in various applications, from medical interventions to intricate rescue operations.
Jun 3, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Versatile fibers offer improved energy storage capacity for wearable devices
The latest wearable devices, such as Samsung's Galaxy Ring and Apple's Vision Pro, are taking health care a step further and even enabling people to work virtually. Given the characteristics of wearable devices that require ...
Apr 19, 2024
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Harvesting vibrational energy from 'colored noise'
The energy demands of today's ubiquitous small electronic devices—including sensors, data transmitters, medical implants and 'wearable' consumer products such as Fitbits—can no longer be met by chemical batteries alone. ...
Apr 18, 2024
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Engineering
Researchers design new coupled shear saw resonator at high frequency
Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) resonators have been widely used in wireless communication below 2 GHz. However, as wireless communication evolves into 5G and 6G, with the new frequency bands above 3 GHz and bandwidth exceeding ...
Apr 15, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Researchers find a simple way to harvest more 'blue energy' from waves
As any surfer will tell you, waves pack a powerful punch. Now, we are one step closer to capturing the energy behind the ocean's constant ebb and flow with an improved "blue energy" harvesting device.
Apr 3, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
An electricity generator inspired by the drinking bird toy powers electronics with evaporated water
Inspired by the classic drinking bird toy, scientists in Hong Kong and Guangzhou, China have developed an engine that efficiently converts energy from water evaporation into electricity to power small electronics. The device ...
Mar 14, 2024
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Engineering
From organics to fuels: Computational models can accelerate and scale up biomass conversion
Your yard clippings could eventually fuel an airplane. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) researchers are tackling the difficult task of using agricultural waste generated from plant-to-food processing to make fuels ...
Feb 29, 2024
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Engineering
Scientists announce breakthrough in hypersonic heat shield
In a giant leap for future hypersonic flight, Chinese scientists have turned to multi-scale technology to develop a revolutionary new material that has achieved record high marks in tests for vital strength and thermal insulation ...
Energy & Green Tech
Electrostatic generator to produce renewable energy from flexible structures
To shapeshift into the yoga pose called "destroyer of the universe," a human must gumby a leg behind their neck to point their toes directly at the sky. For non-gumbys, that feat might seem superhuman or even metahuman—is ...
Jan 17, 2024
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