though energy use payload capacity and speed counted as well. The question to answer according to Jordy de Renet one of Stella s drivers was Do you want it in your daily life?
It also allowed for more surface area for solar cells which cover 6 square meters. The 60-kw battery sheathed in a bright yellow casing runs down the center of the vehicle
and provides up to about 400 km of range or 800 km when the solar panel is providing maximum juice.
On Stella s best day during the competition Solar Team Eindhoven was able to drive 500 km at an average of 100 km/hr.
The solar array charges while the car is in motion as well as when it is parked. We get more energy out of the car than is needed to drive it said de Renet.
That power as much as twice what the car uses can be returned to the grid. The system uses a Wi-fi protocol for vehicles 802. 11p to see where the driver cannot.
While some of the newest cars available at dealerships today use radar and cameras to detect other cars
Motors batteries sensors and electronic control systems located at the ends of the rods can loosen or tighten the tension of the cables.
#Turning Old Lead Batteries Into New Solar energy Used car batteries can leech chemicals and create lead pollution
--and put to good use creating emissions-free energy. In newly published research the scientists show that recycled lead from car batteries works as well as fresh lead
when used in solar cells made with organolead halide perovskite film a compound that is fast becoming competitive with silicon in solar power technology.
Quoting MIT energy professor Angela Belcher a study co-author an MIT press release notes that with time ticking down on lead-acid batteries in favor of lithium ion cells we need to be thinking ahead on handling a looming toxic waste problem:
Perovskite solar panels are also less energy-intensive to build compared to silicon-based cells and the leaded film would be contained completely within other materials.
The research Environmentally-responsible fabrication of efficient perovskite solar cells from recycled car batteries was published recently online by the journal Energy and Environmental science.
quieter direction when it introduced Project Livewire, its first battery-powered bike. The Livewire has a lightweight aluminum frame rather than the classic tubular-steel version,
and adding stability at high speeds. 2) Toyota has donated 208 used Camry Hybrid batteries to Yellowstone national park,
which when paired with solar panels and onsite micro hydro turbine systems will power a cluster of five remote outbuildings. 3) San francisco startup Cruise Automation is making a $10, 000 sensor system (due out next
year) that mounts to the roof of Audi a4 and S4 sedans, and enables semi-autonomous driving on highways. 4) Honda has started using 3-D visualization technology co-developed with tech firm 3dx CITE for crash simulations.
Much of the world's energy actually comes from steam-coal power plants heat up water to produce water vapor,
which turns turbines to generate electricity. A new technology creates steam by harnessing solar energy, using a relatively cheap sponge-like material,
The researchers don't claim the device could be used to create electricity, at least not yet. But it could relatively easily be scaled up to make fresh water out of salt water via distillation
or food processing equipment in areas of the world where electricity is hard to come by, said MIT researcher Hadi Ghasemi in a statement.
#U k. Supermarket To Run on Electricity Made From Its Own Rotting Food One U k. grocery store plans to power itself using biogas harvested from its own unsold, rotting produce.
The store plans to use electricity solely from the digesters, taking no electricity from the U k.'s national power grid,
which is fed by a combination of coal, natural gas, nuclear power plants and other sources. Sainsbury's will even sell any excess electricity it makes back to the grid.
The Cannock Sainsbury's will be the first U k. store to stop using U k. grid electricity
the BBC reports. While we've never heard of a big U s. store doing exactly that,
U s. grocery-store chain Kroger is supposed to have an anaerobic digester that provides more than 20 percent of the electricity needs of its Compton distribution center.
then uses the resulting biomethane just like natural gas mined from the ground to produce electricity.
A 1. 5-kilometer-long cable carries the electricity back to the Cannock Sainsbury's store.
The index covers a range of key segments currently with a 47%allocation to industrials 33%information technology 11%healthcare 5%energy and 4%in consumer discretionary.
Autonaut is a solar-and methanol fuel cell-poweredâ autonomous surface vessel. It was developed by MOST (Autonomous Vessels) Ltd
Built to operate in all marine environments C-Enduro uses solar panels a wind generator a lightweight diesel generator
#Stepping motor with battery-free absolute sensor enables accurate positioning Oriental Motor has developed the Î STEP AZ Series of closed-loop stepping motor & Driver packages
or a limit sensor. ith the majority of stepping motors a backup battery is needed to store position data
and because batteries have limited a life data can't be stored for a long time. But the AZ Series doesn't need a battery
so storing data isn't a concern even if the production equipment is stopped for a long time or the unit is shipped overseas. hat is so special about this new product?
Firstly it enables you to set up an absolute system without the need for a battery.
This feature eliminates the battery replacement cycle for the customer making it possible to achieve a maintenance-free absolute system. y eliminating batteries
and their battery life only allows for short flights. To increase the range of a small UAV one idea is to pair it with an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) that can carry it to a site of operation and transport heavier cargo.
and Energy held the robot industry policy meeting at the Korea Technology Center in Seoul
The 1st Vice-minister Kim Jae-hong Ministry of Trade Industry and Energy said #In order to take a leap forward in making our domestic robot industry a major industry it#s essential to expand robot demand based on the business service models of other industries with a secure core technology.
#energy and its storage. Robotics infographicthe IPO report also looks at the rate of robotics patents compared to other innovation patents on a country basis
The second worry for the project was that electromagnetic fields from cell phones carried by people in the stadium would block electronic signals in the exoskeleton
from helping nurses in hospitals to inspecting dangerous power plants and tedious farm work. Autonomous cars and drones are other examples of robots.
and a battery that allows for at least one hour of operating time. Modules also contain a latch-based connection mechanism that allows them to connect to each other or to connector ports in the environment.
#Chinese city aims to have 80%of production done by Robots by 2020 South China s economic powerhouse of Guangzhou has set a goal of having 80 percent of the city s manufacturing production done by robots
Koreas Ministry of Commerce Industry & Energy (currently the Ministry of Knowledge Economy) first presented the idea for Masan and its sister project the robot theme park in Incheon (west of Seoul
Theyâ##re already delivering amazing products you can buy right nowâ##thermostats that save energy
and walk across our desk using off-the-shelf motors batteries and electronic components? There are multiple ways to keep a cube in its balance
but jumping up requires a sudden release of energy. Intuitively momentum wheels seemed like a good idea to store enough energy while still keeping the cube compact and self-contained.
Furthermore the same momentum wheels can be used to implement a reaction-torque based control algorithm for balancing by exploiting the reaction torques on the cube body
(i e. more energy for jump up) and higher torques (i e. better stability when balancing). This mathematics-driven hardware design resulted in detailed specs for the robot core hardware components (momentum wheels motors gears
and batteries) and allowed a CAD design of the entire system. Part of this step was the design of a special brake to suddenly stop a momentum wheel to transfer its energy to the entire cube
and cause it to jump up. The photo to the left shows an early design of this brake consisting of a screw mounted on the momentum wheel a servo motor (shown in black) to move a metal plate (in blue) into the screw path (in light brown)
and a mounting bracket (in light brown) to transfer the momentum wheel energy to the cube structure.
if the timing is correct the braking energy of one axis can be used as energy for another in the same way as a regenerative braking system reducing energy usage. his system is used currently in the automotive chip-making printing and food industries.
The Ship Inspection Robot (SIR) which was developed in conjunction with Alstom Inspection Robotics and which uses magnetic wheels to navigate the I-beams
The projectsir was developed as part of an industrial-academic collaboration between Alstom Inspection Robotics ETH Zurich and ZHDK.
Alstom Inspection Robotics proposed a project that would result in a lightweight low-cost robot for inspecting ships
and allowed us to develop together with Alstom Inspection Robotics a realistic potential inspection scenario that would serve as a guide for SI#eventual design.
Calculations done on power consumption suggest a run time of about three hours; with an assumed average speed of 4. 5 cm/s (calculated as a weighted mix of maximum
and obstacle speed) ten of these sections could be inspected on a single battery charge. Once inspection is complete the data is analysed
and a powerful battery allows for approximately three hours of run time on a single charge.
The ability to climb all these additional obstacles is not only beneficial for ship inspection but also useful for many other robot applications such as power plant inspections.
Further development of SIR lies in Alstom Inspection Roboticsâ#hands
#SEDASYS a robotic anesthesiologist The FDA recently approved a new robotic device which can automate the sedation of healthy patients having colonoscopies.
Finally a high energy density Lithium-Ion Polymer battery is used to power all the electronics and actuators contained onboard.
and save energy while still providing an aerial perspective that is useful for real-world missions such as search and rescue.
we like to make this system battery-powered. We think that would enable genetically modified foods to be tested while still in the warehouse. i
and conduct electricity when moved in any orientation this combination of the flexible electrodes and conducting tracks mean that electrical impulses can be delivered to the spinal cord.
or if the battery voltage is too low are implemented also on the FMU. The algorithm is presented in research paper Global Strategy for Tailsitter Hover Control submitted to International Symposium on Robotics Research (ISRR), 2015.
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1. 1 billion people more than three times the population of the United states live without electricity. So it goes without saying that ending energy poverty is a key step in ending poverty itself.
And world leaders agree a sustainable development goal just for energy was adopted last month. It emphasizes the role of renewable energy in getting us to the finish line of reaching sustainable energy for all by 2030.
What will give us a big boost in that race? Private financing. During an Oct 9 panel discussion at the World bank Group-IMF Annual Meetings in Lima, Peru, seven public and private experts converged to talk about renewable energy,
and the pivotal role private finance can play. The session was moderated by Angus Mccrone, Chief Editor of Bloomberg New Energy Finance.
Kicking off the event, the International finance corporation Executive vice president and CEO, Jin-Yong Cai, andrune Bjerke, CEO of DNB,
how to make the grids more accessible, how to invest in new technologies related to storage,
how to take advantage of the tech revolution to put more emphasis to new, green energy sources,
You might have a major power plant, but it doesn mean that you have said access Thierno Alassane Sall,
Senegal Minister of Energy and Development of Renewable energies. e can resolve it without financing solutions to transportation and distribution issues.
or an energy project to succeed on a larger scale, you have to have solid transmission and distribution networks.
We imported 96%of our energy. So we started a diversification strategy in 2008. By 2010, we adopted a law in energy efficiency
so we set up the framework to implement the strategy. In 2011 the Arab spring broke out
We also lost our gas supply (from Egypt) for electricity. Jordan government had to replace gas with diesel at five times the cost.
and made an arrangement with the IMF for a reform program in the energy sector. We removed all subsidies on fuel products,
Peru Minister Of mines and Energy, Rosa Maria Ortiz Rios, said renewables will play a major role in diversifying the country energy generation sources.
Without renewable energy, we cannot end poverty by 2030. enewable energy is the foundation of a modern economy,
In that time, the process has achieved almost 100 percent efficiency in transporting the energy of sunlight from receptors to reaction centers where it can be harnessed a performance vastly better than even the best solar cells.
Surprisingly, the researchers at MIT and Eni, the Italian energy company, achieved this new approach to solar energy not with high-tech materials
an expert on engineering viruses to carry out energy-related tasks, and Seth Lloyd, an expert on quantum theory and its potential applications;
which in turn produces an exciton a quantum particle of energy. This exciton jumps from one chromophore to another until it reaches a reaction center,
where that energy is harnessed to build the molecules that support life. But the hopping pathway is random and inefficient
it points the way toward an approach that could lead to inexpensive and efficient solar cells or light-driven catalysis,
and transport energy from incoming light, but do not yet harness it to produce power (as in solar cells)
or molecules (as in photosynthesis). But this could be done by adding a reaction center, where such processing takes place,
such Metamaterial will be able to render a coated object undetectable in these wave frequencies, by forcing light
The new, super-thin metamaterial has the capability to better hide the three-dimensionality of objects
The battery-powered drone has a 10-foot (3-meter) wingspan, 10 electric motors (eight on the wings,
Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Wind energy and Energy system Technology IWES in Kassel, Germany, have developed a wireless charger system that not only recharges a battery but also feeds excess energy back into the electrical grid.
With this system in place, energy can be transmitted without a plug and entirely through the air or as researchers explain in more depth, hrough a time-varying magnetic field.
the more efficiently the energy is transferred, according to researchers. ven with an air gap of 20 centimeters,
However, unlike other options, this coil system from Fraunhofer Institute can also discharge the electricity stored in a vehicle battery
and feed back into the grid to offset power surges. This technology is particularly cost-effective,
creating a carbon market for electric power generation, steel, cement and other industries producing most of the country greenhouse gas emissions.
and aims to slash carbon emissions from electric power plants by 32 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. issued our Clean Power Plan to reduce America carbon emissions,
Xi also announced a reen dispatch approachfor its electric power supply as a strategy to meet the country goal of producing 20 percent of its electricity from renewables by 2030. hina reen dispatchsystem will prioritize power generation from renewable resources,
and establish guidelines to accept electricity first from the most efficient and lowest-polluting fossil fuel generators,
#Better Batteries Through Mushroom Technology Mushrooms never cease to amaze. Theye one of the weirdest organisms on the planet,
Riverside Bourns College of Engineering have found yet another use for mushrooms in batteries. The UC research team has developed a new kind of lithium-ion battery anode using portobello mushrooms,
which could eventually replace the industry standard of synthetic graphite. Besides being less expensive and eco-friendlier
Wee likely to be using a lot more batteries in coming years, particularly in consumer electronics and electric vehicles.
and expend less energy in the manufacturing process. Synthetic graphite, on the other hand, has a relatively high manufacturing cost due to specific preparation
The mushroom anodesporosity creates more space for the transfer of energy which can improve battery performance.
But even better, according to the UC team, mushroom anodes could actually result in batteries that increase in efficiency over time, due to the organic material high potassium salt content. ith battery materials like this,
future cell phones may see an increase in run time after many uses, rather than a decrease,
Caves Full of Compressed air An unusual project that would store renewable energy in huge amounts of compressed air in two man-made caverns for use in energy generation has been lighted green by the European union.
Energy company Gaeletric project, which will be created under the coastline of Northern ireland County Antrim, will be funded with the help of a EU grant of 6. 5 Million euros ($7. 1 million).
But if a producer could store energy from those sources and then transmit it to the grid in a more regular flow,
it would be easier to compete with fossil fuels. In CAES, the surplus energy from solar and wind installations to compress air into the caverns
which would be carved nearly a mile underground inside geological salt layers deep underground. When the energy was needed,
it would be used to drive turbines that generate electricity. While that all sounds sustainable, BBC reports that some environmentalists are worried
because the company will take the salt removed to create the caverns and eject it into the ocean waters off Northern ireland coast.
and used to store unused off-peak electricity from a coal fired power plant 20 miles away, according to the New york times. But recently the technology has been repurposed for use with renewables a
The high intensity of the light electromagnetic field melted the GST turning its crystalline atomic structure amorphous.
the researchers unveil how one of a battery of chemical warfare agents used by the immune system to fight off infection can itself create DNA mutations that lead to cancer.
Superfluids are thought to flow endlessly, without losing energy, similar to electrons in a superconductor. Observing the behavior of superfluids
and develop energy-efficient methods for transporting electricity. But superfluids are temperamental, and can disappear in a flash
and research scientist in the MIT Department of Architecture. very material responds to some sort of energy source,
They really showed that we could customize our smart materials to respond to different energy sources
or property if a certain energy or environmental condition is around. We can have sensors, actuators, decision-making,
(I/O)- intensive applications such as server farms is required the energy consumption to transport bits of data around.
and reduce energy consumption. But to be commercially viable these photonic I/O devices must leverage the vast existing silicon infrastructure
and the energy cost of getting the data, says Rajeev Ram, professor of electrical engineering at MIT.
is central to most electric power plants, heating and cooling systems, and desalination plants. Now, for the first time, researchers at MIT have found a way to control this process, literally with the flick of an electrical switch.
which could improve the efficiency of electric power generation and other processes, is described in a paper by Department of Mechanical engineering Professor Evelyn Wang, graduate student Jeremy Cho,
That could make it possible to make more efficient boilers for powerplants or other applications, since present designs require a substantial safety margin to avoid the possibility of hot spots that could seriously damage the equipment.
While most such power plants operate at a steady rate most of the time being able to control the heat transfer rates dynamically could improve their efficiency
he says. aving a boiler that can respond to quick changescould provide extra flexibility to the electric grid,
Power plant operators are rightly conservative about making changes, Cho says, since people depend on their output,
#Shifts in electricity generation spur net job growth, but coal jobs decline In the four years following the 2008 recession,
while the natural gas, solar and wind industries together created nearly four times that amount, according to a new Duke university study.
To estimate changes in electricity generation employment, Pratson and research analyst Drew Haerer examined data relating to both direct and indirect job growth and loss for each industry.
This included operations and maintenance jobs at electric power plants, as well as operations and maintenance jobs in resource extraction and fuel transportation.
Data for solar and wind generator operations and maintenance jobs were provided by the industries themselves. Job changes in the coal
and energy production occurring within each sector of the two industries to estimate gains or losses in employment that supported electricity generation.
Overall, regions that had the largest energy job increases were the Northeast, Southwest, Midwest and West.
for example, are rugged very and heavily forestedot easy places to set up solar panels or wind farms.""Differences in the availability of state incentives for renewable energy also had noted an effect
and there is almost no development of green energy there compared to other regions.""Haerer said one way for states that depend heavily on the coal industry to cope with changing energy trends may be to transition to clean coal technology,
which reduces coal plants'negative environmental impacts. Pratson and Haerer published their study in the peer-reviewed journal Energy policy.
They conducted the study with no external sources of funding i
#Singapore Telecom to buy US cybersecurity firm for $810 mn Singapore Telecom (Singtel) said Wednesday it will buy almost all of US cybersecurity firm Trustwave for $810 million,
which is funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWI) and coordinated by Fraunhofer IWU.
energy and resources to follow their dreams.""Rasmussen credits PPPL with providing help and support during critical points in her project."
Initially working with Lew Meixler on a federal Cooperative Research and development Agreement in the Plasma Surface Laboratory, she solved the problem by treating the metal (steel or titanium) with a plasma.
Research could usher in next generation of batteries, fuel cells The research, which is published in the journal Nature Communications,
involves improving the transport of oxygen ions, a key component in converting chemical reactions into electricity.
and is currently in use as a solid oxide fuel cell electrolyte. Through the use of additives and a"smart"chemical reaction, they demonstrated a greatly enhanced conductivity in GDC.
The result is a faster and more efficient conversion into electricity.""This breakthrough will pave the path to fabricate next generation energy conversion and storage devices with significantly enhanced performance,
increasing energy efficiency and making energy environmentally benign and sustainable,"said Fanglin (Frank) Chen, a chemical engineering professor at the University of South carolina."
"The origin of the low grain boundary conductivity is known to be segregation of gadolinium (Gd) in the grain boundary
The approach of targeting emergent phases resulting in clean interfaces can be applied to a number of essential materials for energy conversion
and storage devices used in handheld electronics, vehicles, and power plants, making them more cost-effective, efficient and environmentally friendly.
Currently, ceramic composites consisting of ionic and electronic conductive components like those in this study are under consideration for membrane separation devices that provide oxygen for enhanced conversion of coal and natural gas
as well as for membrane reactors used in natural gas conversion and recovery y
#Go greener: Norway to clean up sovereign wealth fund Norway said Friday it would bar its state pension fund, the world's biggest sovereign wealth fund,
#New material set to change cooling industry"The world refrigeration market is expected to increase by about $7-8 billion by 2018,
Therefore, his breakthrough has a significant economic impact as well as an impact on the energy industry and environment.
"LSU's basic research into low temperature physics and materials science has potential applications in areas related to energy,
"Professor Stadler's magnetocaloric materials program is an example of this research that appears to be directly relevant to energy development and Louisiana's economy.
"Stadler's team's technological discovery is a promising alternative for refrigeration and air conditioning that can reduce the use of harmful gas fluorocarbons."
#Insights into potential substitutes for costly platinum in fuel cell catalysts Replacing inefficient and polluting combustion engines with fuel cells is not currently feasible
The implications of this new preparation technique go far beyond fuel cells. It may be used to create alloy nanomaterials for solar cells, heterogeneous catalysts for a variety of chemical reactions, and energy storage devices."
"The new method gives scientists fine control over the composition and morphology of the alloy nanoparticles on surfaces,"said Dr. Grant Johnson,
"The researchers are now exploring different metal combinations with various platinum ratios to get the desired characteristics for fuel cell catalysts.
#Lab team develops hyper-stretchable elastic-composite energy harvester A research team led by Professor Keon Jae Lee of the Department of Materials science and engineering at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science
and Technology (KAIST) has developed a hyper-stretchable elastic-composite energy harvesting device called a nanogenerator. Flexible electronics have come into the market
researchers have not developed ultra-stretchable and fully-reversible energy conversion devices properly. Recently researchers from KAIST and Seoul National University (SNU) have collaborated
These noteworthy results were achieved by the non-destructive stress-relaxation ability of the unique electrodes as well as the good piezoelectricity of the device components.
The new SEG can be applied to a wide-variety of wearable energy harvesters to transduce biomechanical-stretching energy from the body (or machines) to electrical energy.
which is entitled"A Hyper-Stretchable Elastic-Composite Energy harvester
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