Intel claims it has improved the efficiency of a method for powering devices wirelessly. Intel’s “Wireless Energy Resonant Link” (WREL), technology was demonstrated by transmitting electricity wirelessly to a lamp on stage and lighting a 60 watt bulb, which consumes ...
Sci-Fi Future: Battery Viruses
Engineers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a method to create and install tiny microbatteries which are the size of half a human cell. Using viruses to generate power, this new type of battery could one day power ...
StatoilHydro’s Hywind
Norwegian Company StatoilHydro has announced the building of the world’s first full scale floating wind turbine, called Hywind, which will be tested over a two year period offshore Karmoy in Norway. The company intends to invest approximately 80 million dollars ...
Alaska Opts for Underground Energy
Alaskan state officials have recently announced their intentions to begin funding the exploration and surveying of Alaska’s largest volcanoes in hopes of utilizing these as a source of geothermal energy which they say could provide enough energy to power thousands ...
Phoenix – 30 Picowatts Chip
Researchers at the University of Michigan have developed a low-power microchip which uses 30,000 times less power in sleep mode and 10 times less in active mode than similar chips now on the market. Named the Phoenix Processor, it is ...
New Green Plug Universal Adapters
The California based Company Green Plug has developed a single universal adapter that enables users to power their laptops, cell phones, and other electronic gear with only one power adapter. This technology could help the environment by eliminating the need ...
The Mysterious Stranger – Part 1
In 1712, a mysterious stranger stepped into the quiet town of Gera, Germany. The man brought a peculiar machine: a thick wooden wheel, about three feet in diameter, covered in an oiled leather blanket. Through the wrapping emerged a massive ...
World’s Largest Tidal Power to be Built in Korea
The U.K. Company Lunar Energy and the Korean firm Midland Power have agreed to build a giant 300 turbine power plant in the Wando Hoenggan Water Way, off the South Korean coast. The plant is expected to provide 300 megawatts ...
New Technologies Generate Energy from Sea Tide
Tidal power has recently been harnessed to generate electricity. Verdant Power and Pelamis Wave Power are two companies which have developed technologies that can take advantage of the oceans’ kinetic energy in order to create electricity. The companies have already ...
The Rise of the Solar Tower
The Australian firm “EnviroMission” is developing a large-scale solar tower that, according to the company, will be capable of supplying electricity to 200,000 typical Australian homes. EnviroMission owns the exclusive license to the German-designed Solar Tower technology in Australia. The ...
