Scientists presented at the 240th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society their new mitochondria fuel cell, that uses sugar to produce electricity. It may sound weird, but this is true! Once again inspired by nature and living organisms, scientists used in their experiments a particular compound found in organic cells (the mitochondria) that can convert sugar and fats into energy.
Fashion designer Suzanne Lee made an important step in the sustainable green-clothing industry by creating a new fabric grown by bacteria. This new bio-fabric called BioCouture could lead fashion designer to get their materials from laboratories instead of factories.
Trying to come up with a solution for dusty solar panels today, researchers have presented a new technology, simply called dust-cleaning technology, able to increase solar power production. Most of today’s solar power plants are placed in large sunny areas where rains are very rare. In these places photovoltaic panels get often covered with a [...]
German Aerospace Center in cooperation with Lange Research Aircraft GmbH, will build world’s longest range fuel cell plane. Antares H3 will fly over 3,700 miles which is 8 times more than its successor DLR-H2, the world’s first piloted fuel cell powered aircraft.
A new developed core-and-shell nanoparticle containing less platinum than today commercially available catalysts, may improve the efficiency of fuel cells by up to 12 percent.
The new type of chlorophyll found in stromatolites (layered structures of cyanobacteria living in shallow waters) could make a better use of available light. “That makes this new discovery the reddest chlorophyll to be identified so far…It was found deeper in the stromatolite structure, which explains why it needs the longer wavelengths of light for photosynthesis.”, said professor Robert Willows of Sydney’s Macquarie University.
It may look like an regular toothbrush but it isn’t! Soladey-J3X uses a mini solar panel at its base to produce some cleaning teeth electrons.
Horizon announced the launch of a new commercial hydrogen fuel cell system (AEROPAK) for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) such as Global Observer Aircraft 1001.
Burntisland Fabrications (BiFab), a Scottish company, was named as winner of the £4M contract to build world’s most advanced tidal energy turbine in the Sound of Islay.
Researchers say that magnesium could be considered an alternative energy source because it can store ten times more energy than hydrogen.
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