Energy & Green Tech
Rolls-Royce has taken the wraps off its one-seater electric plane. This was a first look that drew global interest from news sites last week, as the big date is set for Spring next year to fly. The plane could become the ...
Energy & Green Tech
Energy storage company Highview Power has announced its intention to build a cryogenic energy storage facility in the north of England—a first for the U.K. The project calls for converting a decommissioned thermal power ...
Engineering
The new wave of smartphones to hit the market all come with incredible cameras that produce brilliant photos. There's only one complaint—the thick camera lenses on the back that jet out like ugly bumps on a sheet of glass.
Oct 8, 2019
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Engineering
Using polymers and natural stone slurry waste, UBC Okanagan researchers are manufacturing environmentally friendly stone composites.
Sep 19, 2019
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Engineering
In Switzerland, 50 to 60 percent of new homes are equipped with heat pumps. These systems draw in thermal energy from the surrounding environment—such as from the ground, air, or a nearby lake or river—and turn it into ...
Jul 3, 2019
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Energy & Green Tech
Americans used more energy in 2018 than in any other year, according to the most recent energy flow charts released by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). Overall total energy consumption rose to 101.2 quadrillion ...
Apr 12, 2019
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Engineering
Under the same temperature and humidity, human thermal status may vary due to individual body constitution and climatic environment. A KAIST research team previously developed a wearable sweat rate sensor for human thermal ...
Oct 17, 2018
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Engineering
A research group from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, has made great strides toward the development of a specially designed molecule which can store solar energy for later use. These advances have been presented ...
Oct 3, 2018
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Electronics & Semiconductors
How do you pack more power into an electric car?
Aug 28, 2018
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Energy & Green Tech
A newly discovered structure of a sodium-based material allows the materials to be used as an electrolyte in solid-state batteries, according to researchers from Penn State and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). ...
Apr 10, 2018
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