Use Your Sweaty Body to Charge Your Phone
In this digital and portable world, most of us have to cope with our daily devices and the plethora of wall chargers that accompany them. Keeping your phone charged can be a pain; even a…
Energy
Abandoned Quarry to Become Home of $568 Million Geothermal-Powered Hotel
China has been a front runner in the building the biggest skyscrapers in the world. But giving a fresh twist to the idea, China has started working on a huge underground hotel project in Shanghai.…
“Full Speed Ahead” For Global Electric and Hybrid Marine Businesses
IndustryTap reported last year that the world’s 15 biggest ships create more pollution than all the cars in the world combined. According to James Corbett, professor of marine policy at the University of Delaware, “Ship…
Solar-Powered ‘Smart’ Roads Would Turn the World’s Transportation Network into a Massive Power Plant
Electrical engineer Scott Brusaw and his wife Julie are pursuing a new type of solar concept. Their long range goal is to replace all concrete and asphalt standard highways and byways throughout the US with electricity-producing…
Floating Nuclear Power Plants Could Save Us from Meltdowns
Nuclear plants provide the large amounts of reliable and continuous electricity. Nuclear power reactors have a major environmental benefit – they do not emit the gases that contribute to global warming, acid rain, or urban…
Watch This Incredible GIF Of The Sun From NASA…
NASA recently released footage of the intense activity that occurs immediately around the sun. Recorded on May 13th, NASA says, “We zoomed in almost to our maximum level to watch tight, bright loops and much…
Will Audi’s Wireless Charging Tech Make EV Plug-In Charging Obsolete?
Audi’s new wireless charging technology is gaining more traction as it would essentially render electric vehicles’ plug-in charging obsolete. The technology utilizes a plate equipped with a coil and an inverter that emits an alternating…
Is This the Future of New York City’s Transit Hub?
Urban planners have long been advocating the benefits of building dense retail and housing complexes around public transportation hubs. To fully justify this idea, designers Chad Kellogg and Matt Bowles of AMLGM have proposed a…
Crank It Up! This Radio is Powered by a Crop of Moss.
We all know that soothing music has a profound impact on the growth of plants. A group of scientists from the University of Cambridge has harvested moss-grown electricity to power a FM radio. They say…
Brits’ Burn Garbage to Produce “Biogas” Jet Engine Fuel
In what might have once been a “royal scandal”, British Airways is getting ready to burn garbage to produce fuel to power its modern jets. It has been called garbage power, biogas, landfill, gasification, feedstock…
