#Biomimicry Wave Energy Device Ready To Leave The Nest A new bio-inspired method of harvesting energy from the ocean has completed its shakedown on land,
Called biowave, the wave energy device won be venturing too far Port Fairy in Australia is as far as it going
when we compared the new wave energy concept to kelp. That might seem a little imaginative considering
The Biowave wave energy device was inspired by the way that kelp sways and pivots with the movement of ocean swell waves.
The biowave actually gives you a twofer of potential and kinetic wave energy harvesting. It consists of an array of floats that rise and fall with the up and down-down surface motion of swells,
which accounts for the potential energy. The kinetic energy comes in under the surface, as the floats (or lades sway back and forth.
The prototype pictured above is a 250 kilowatt model designed for operation at 30 meters
The tricky part is converting all that motion into electricity. The company behind the wave energy device, Biopower Systems (what else?
developed an onboard power conversion system it calls O-Drive. As illustrated by the schematic at the top of this article,
which fluid is stored in a bank of accumulators. The accumulators literally accumulate the herky-jerky energy of the wave motion
and release it in a steady stream to a hydraulic motor. The motor goes to a generator,
and the generator cranks electricity into an undersea cable for transmission to the shore. To pare down maintenance costs,
Wave energy is a bit of a risky venture now that offshore wind energy is taking off, but the pursuit is worth it.
One key advantage of wave devices is their relatively low profile above the surface, and in the case of biowave, no profile at all.
That provides much more flexibility for site selection than offshore wind turbines which can easily run into aesthetic obstacles.
which is also behind the unique Perth wave energy project that launched in March. Here in the US, wave energy is also getting a huge lift from us taxpayers in the form of a public-private shared test bed at Marine corps Base Hawaii and funding from the Energy department so group hug D
#The Fossil fuel energy Industry Is Now Entering Terminal Decline It time to make the call fossil fuels are finished.
o long and thanks for all the energy I understand this is a very big call, especially in regards to timing.
Think of energy like you think about an iphone The first and most important driver is the argument
For over 100 years, energy markets have been defined by physical resources, supplied in large volumes by large,
The new emerging energy system of renewables and storage is a echnologybusiness, more akin to information and communications technology;
This shift to a echnologyhas many implications for energy, but the most profound one is very simple.
and indirectly by driving battery costs down to create storage for distributed renewables. This all then unleashes competition across sectors bringing new players to old industries.
and lobbying for electric cars (to also protect the grid). Within a decade, electric cars will be more reliable,
Energy is the essential foundation of the economy but we now have a better, cheaper way of producing energy.
Fast beats slow One of key competitive advantages the fossil fuel industry has had is the huge capital,
Firstly it created huge barriers to entry in the market a disruptive entrepreneur can build a coal power station,
when you combine nergy as a technologywith most growth in energy demand being in developing economies.
it is inevitable that before long maybe a decade virtually all new electricity generation will be from renewables.
easy to finance, more convenient, popular and clean energy and transport that will get even cheaper over time.
So the very thing that the fossil fuel industry had relied on for its growth the rapidly expanding need for energy in the developing world is the very thing that will drive the competition to wipe them out.
But the assumptions pretty much everyone working with that without policy intervention the energy system will be dominated by fossil fuels in 2050
They know that today we spend around twice as much on motor transport fuel as we do on electricity.
battery manufacturers, copper and lithium miners, electronics producers, software developers, electric engine makers, smart grid builders and, of course, solar and wind power manufacturers, installers and financiers.
It that competing energy products of renewables and batteries, in a system with electric vehicles, will behave as a disruptive technology always does,
and Google who are both developing battery and car opportunities, with a close eye on the technology integration opportunity.
#High-performance 3-D Silicon Anodes Made From Reed Leaves A low-cost approach to fabricating nanoporous silicon a potentially highly useful material for next-generation anode material in batteries,
just as it is required in advanced lithium-ion batteries. Even after 4, 000 cycles and at a rate of 10c, the anode achieved a specific capacity of 420 mahg-1. Here are some excerpts from a paper on the work:
the described 3d porous Si-C nanocomposite has a great potential as a practical anode material for Li-ion batteries.
and more energy-efficient process for removing greenhouse gas from power plant emissions has been developed by a multi-institution team of researchers.
That's why the agency has proposed rules mandating dramatically reduced carbon emissions at all new fossil fuel-fired power plants.
Researchers at LLNL and the U s. Department of energy's National Energy technology Lab are now working on enhancements to the capture process to bring the technology to scale.
The integration of magnetoelectronics with ultrathin functional elements such as solar cells light-emitting diodes transistors as well as temperature and tactile sensor arrays will enable autonomous and versatile smart systems with a multitude of sensing
This type of solar panel would neither rust nor require much cleaning. There's still a little more R&d to do though,
#Dutch Harvest Electricity From Living Plants To Power Streetlights, Wi-fi & Cell Phones Plant-e, a company based out of The netherlands,
has found a way to harness electricity from living plants, using them to power Wi-fi hotspots, cell phone chargers,
which living plants generate electricity. Their technology allows them to produce electricity from practically every site where plants can grow. ia photosynthesis a plant produces organic matter.
Part of this organic matter is used for plant-growth, but a large part can be used by the plant
Around the roots naturally occurring microorganisms break down the organic compounds to gain energy from. In this process, electrons are released as a waste product.
the electrons can be harvested as electricity. Research has shown that plant-growth isn compromised by harvesting electricity,
so plants keep on growing while electricity is produced concurrently. Just imagine, a house with a roof full of plant/tree life powering your home.
On the company website, they feature animated pictures of mini-forests growing on building rooftops supplying power to the entire building.
the main problem is the quantity of energy that can be generated. There is still a long way to go with regards to making enough energy to have a completely reliable commercial product,
but things are looking promising, as the company is already selling products that enable you to harvest energy from plants.
Again, they are also using the technology to power their headquarters For more information on the technology
More and more energy innovations seem to be emerging every single day, like this one. Perhaps this is why the powerful and wealthy Rockefeller family recently sold out of fossil fuels
and switched their investments towards clean energy? Change is coming, and it about time. The world largest private bank, UBS, is also urging investors to join the clean, renewable energy movement.
They did so with a statement expressing that power plants in Europe might be completely extinct within the next 10 to 20 year (you can read more about that story here.
It become clear that there are many alternative ways to generate energy without destroying the planet d
The voxels are light emitted by plasma that created when the laser focused energy ionizes the air.
According to Ochiai, when touched the hologram texture feels like sandpaper. Although previous studies have used nanosecond
Ochiai says the most surprising thing he realized was that plasma was actually safe to touch in this application,
#The turbines WITHOUT blades: Firm unveils radical design that claims to be quieter and safer than traditional wind farms By Ellie Zolfagharifard For Dailymail. com Published:
00:12 GMT, 19 may 2015 Updated: 00:15 GMT, 19 may 2015 Today wind turbines have colossal blades that spin at speeds of more than 200mph (320 km h).
a bladeless wind turbine that can generate more electricity for less. Scroll down for videocreated by Madrid-based Vortex Bladeless,
The movements is transformed into electricity using an alternator that increases the frequency of the mast movement.
Vortex Bladeless say they now want to create a commercial, 100-watt turbine to market in 2018. b
AEHF satellites'Hall thrusters are 4. 5-kilowatt units that use electricity and xenon to produce thrust for moving satellites in space.
#Lightsail launches to test revolutionary solar technology in Earth orbit A small spacecraft designed to test solar sail technology in Earth orbit has taken flight in a successful launch.
or have wired a link to a battery. l
#Nasa spots most luminous galaxy in the universe-shining with the light of more than 300 TRILLION suns A dazzling galaxy that shines with the light of more than 300 trillion suns has been discovered by astronomers.
heating the disk to roaring temperatures of millions of degrees and blasting out high-energy, visible, ultraviolet,
or more with its battery pack The robot is set to compete in the US government's robo olympics next month.'
and personalise every listening experience. he earbuds boast a six-hour battery life, and connect to a smartphone via Bluetooth.
#The light bulb that lasts 37 YEARS: James Dyson's son invents £399 lamps that stay bright for decades By Sarah Griffiths for Mailonline Published:
16:54 GMT, 8 june 2015 It is asked often how many men it takes to change a light bulb and in this case, it just one.
The LEDS use a fifth of the energy of a conventional halogen bulb and because there are few bulbs to replace in a lifetime,
#World's smallest light bulb is 1 atom thick and could help in super-thin TV development By Colin Fernandez for the Daily mail Published:
20:26 GMT, 15 june 2015 Scientists have created the world's thinnest light bulb using the wonder material graphene, in a layer just one atom thick.
what is essentially the world's thinnest light bulb.''He added that the light'will pave the way towards the realisation of atomically thin, flexible and transparent displays'.
when light bulbs were invented.''Edison originally used carbon as a filament for his light bulb and here we are going back to the same element,
but using it in its pure form graphene and at its ultimate size limit one atom thick.'
conducting electricity and being nearly transparent. The discovery of graphene in 2004 by Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, two Russian-born scientists at the University of Manchester, earned the pair the Nobel prize for Physics and knighthoods.
the icrowave gunis capable of ensuring perimeter defense at 360 degrees. his type of weapon is directed known as a-energy weapon (DEW),
The weapons focus on emitting highly focused energy to a target in order to damage it. Aside from microwaves
Professor Banfield and her colleagues found the new bacteria they discovered appear to use a simple process of fermentation to make the energy they need.
but adds a twist-the battery, motor and wheels can be swapped easily and replaced for different riders and varying terrains.
The bike's centre frame assembly includes the motor and battery, while the front and rear assemblies and wheels can be configured for road,
'The bike's centre frame assembly includes the motor and battery, while the front and rear assemblies and wheels can be configured for road, mountain or city riding.'
The interaction between liquid crystal molecules and plasmon waves on the nanostructured metallic surface played the key role in generating the polarization-independent
In addition to dramatically reducing materials and energy use, the weight of the Node-enabled chassis is up to 90%lighter than traditional cars,
and these pulses ionise the air to create plasma which can be touched (pictured) The breakthrough was made by Japanese researchers from the University of Tokyo, University of Tsukuba, Utsunomiya University Nagoya Institute of technology.
and are created when the energy from the laser ionises the air and releases extra energy in the form of photons
Researchers and companies have used this technology to create plasma displays in the past but these involved lasers that pulse with bursts that last for nanoseconds, for example.
To solve this problem the Japanese researchers created plasma voxels using femtosecond lasers instead. A femtosecond is a quadrillionth of a second
since plasma induced by a femtosecond laser is safer than that generated by a nanosecond laser.'
One of the project's prototypes features a twin battery back on both sides of the dog, a mounted webcam,
so that its energy levels could be doubled almost, allowing scientists to carry out more extreme experiments. The LHC (pictured) was restarted on April 5 this year,
ran at a low'injection'energy of 450 giga-electron volts (Gev) when it restarted, but its power has now been increased to a record-breaking 13 tera-electron volts (Tev)- up from 7 Tev at the time it managed to detect the Higgs boson in 2013.
What is important is that we will have collisions at energies we've never had before.'.
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The system is powered by a 13v battery which can recharge itself when the engine is on.
which converts electrical energy into thrust without the need for rocket fuel. Martin Tajmar, professor and chair for Space Systems at the Dresden University of Technology, presented his work at the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics'Propulsion and Energy Forum in Orlando yesterday.
The website Hacked obtained a copy of Tajmar's Propulsion and Energy Forum paper.''Our measurements reveal thrusts as expected from previous claims after carefully studying thermal and electromagnetic interferences,
'wrote Tajmar in the paper, according to the website.''If true, this could certainly revolutionise space travel.'
Solar energy provides the electricity to power the microwaves, which means that no propellant is needed. The implications for this could be huge.
They found Hf-Ta-C combined a high heat of fusion the energy absorbed or released when it transforms from solid to liquid and low differences in disorder of the atoms,
because they have stable molecular structures that require a lot of energy to break. The behaviour of the atoms as a liquid also determines this melting point.
They found their Hf-N-c alloy would absorb similar amounts of energy when it melted
and smartphones. ola fingerprint smart lock wants to bring it to the forefront with faster operation, longer battery life,
or a standard latch bolt system. the ola fingerprint lock uses four AA BATTERIES with a back up AAA BATTERY that are all replaceable by dissembling the back casing on the side of the home.
the solar cell obtains adequate light, even in the darkness of winter, said Fraunhofer. On the chip are magnetic
was to deposit a solar cell directly on a die, over the uneven metal layers. his is had why we to find a means of filling in
and evening the surface prior to coating it with the solar cell, said engineer Dr Gerd vom Bögel,
Secondly, the chip needed to run from a tiny solar cell, in the winter, and through the night. y keeping both processor and chip extremely small, the latter is extremely frugal.
In addition, the researchers constructed switches that consume little energy, and engineered very short radio protocols,
which approached IMS for on-die solar cells two years ago. Solchip has plans to use them to monitor street traffic
#Battery swap charges moped in 10 seconds Smartscooter from Gogoro is moped an electric that charges in under 10s
because it has swappable batteries. As such it needs special battery swap stations particularly as home charging is said to be impossible the first infrastructure for
which is being installed in Taipei. Drive up to the charge station, pull two Li-ion batteries out of the Smartscooter, dump them into shaped holes in the charger,
and it automatically pops up two charged batteries to replace them. The batteries include slide-in connectors on the bottom,
so there is no separate disconnection or connection procedure. And the batteries fit in any way around
so long as the handle is at the top. martscooter gathers, analyses, and shares riding behaviours ten times a second to help riders determine what best for their Smartscooter energy consumption
while getting the same performance, said the firm. his riding data is updated to the cloud, every 10 minutes,
from the Gogoro mobile app on the riders smartphone or when a battery is exchanged at a Gostation via NFC. iders get to select specific ride feel,
throttle acceleration and dashboard colour. Smartscooter at a glanc o
#University embeds RFID chips in yarn Researchers at Nottingham Trent University have come up with a way of embedding RFID chips in yarns
which requires less energy and is cheaper. The gap between valence and conduction bands can be tuned precisely by adjusting the arsenic concentration. his allows us to produce materials with previously unattainable electronic and optical properties in an energy window that was hitherto inaccessible,
says professor Tom Nilges, head of the research group for SCIM. With an arsenic concentration of 83%the material exhibits an extremely small band gap of only 0. 15 electron volts
which requires less energy and is cheaper. The gap between valence and conduction bands can be tuned precisely by adjusting the arsenic concentration. his allows us to produce materials with previously unattainable electronic and optical properties in an energy window that was hitherto inaccessible,
says professor Tom Nilges, head of the research group for SCIM. With an arsenic concentration of 83%the material exhibits an extremely small band gap of only 0. 15 electron volts
Very low power consumption provides for exceptionally long battery life measured in years from small conventional cells.
Dube says. y father used to have some power plants, and I would go there, and they would have almost nobody managing them,
freeing the remaining work force to devote their time and energy to more creative pursuits. That good news for employees frustrated by the status quo.
and energy they could be spending on more rewarding projects. But what may sound like a utopian ideal also presents enormous logistical challenges for enterprises. here a lot of talk about technology taking over the drudgery work
and publicly disclosing the carbon footprint of their investment portfolios on an annual basis. The new legal requirement is contained in Article 48 of The french Energy Transition Law
which has no battery or replaceable parts, enables monitoring of changes in blood pressure in the pulmonary artery,
it features a solar panel in the flap which charges as the children walk to and from school as well as strips of reflective material,
he removes the solar panel and screws it onto a solar jar that can last up to 12 hours,
me a lot when there is no electricity because I take the lamp and use that for lighting
They also want to expand to other countries in Africa where access to electricity in poorer communities remains a problem m
New partners inductive data transfer and cutting-edge battery tech Ever since Google Project Ara debuted, consumers have been interested in the possibility of a customized smartphone with hot-swappable modules
the option to swap out the battery while the device is in low power mode, and the opportunity to use multiple antennas for better signal sourcing and multiple carrier support.
and generally lower power consumption compared to FPGAS. Spiral 2 still has some problems with signal degradation over the long term
Google also talked up the concept of giving new and unusual battery designs a forum to experiment with Project Ara there are battery technologies that offer substantial improvements over conventional lithium polymer architectures
and hobbyists who want the ability to customize a phone for particularly long battery life or with specialized sensors.
#Wireless power system charges devices up to 20 feet away A plethora of firms are racing to develop a feasible method for delivering power wirelessly,
A company called Energous is on hand at CES with a demo of its new wireless power system known amusingly as Wattup.
a device twice as far away from a source only gets one-quarter of the energy.
If youe got a wireless power base station that can blast energy 20 feet away (improved from 15 feet last year),
However, the energy routers will probably be a substantial investment, especially considering most homes would need more than one
Electron movement is controlled via quantum wells (a quantum well is a layer of material that constricts the movements of electrons to particular dimensions to ensure energy arrives where it meant to go).
and converts it to electrical energy reportedly enough to power a small electronic device, like a wearable.
Electricity The power generates thanks to the triboelectric effect which is when certain types of materials can become electrically charged through contact and friction with another material in this case,
Thanks to the triboelectric effect creating the device is easier as well the skin is one of the triboelectric layers that helps produce the effect,
so that layer doesn need to be built into the device itself, saving time, money, and materials. It also removes something that can go wrong with the device having one less layer built in means that one less part that can Break in the researcherstest,
this type of generator could remove the need for batteries in certain mobile devices your smartwatch
Who knows one day this type of generator could even generate enough energy to power your smartphone,
perhaps even removing the battery entirely, which is one of the biggest constraints to smartphone development and design o
#New aluminum air battery could blow past lithium-ion runs on water As battery technologies go,
On the one hand, breakthroughs in Li-ion designs and construction are responsible for the Tesla Model S, new installations, green energy research,
The company is claiming that its new aluminum-air batteries can run for up to two weeks and be refilled with normal water.
How an aluminum-air battery works First, some basics. The problem with battery technology isn whether or not we can build better batteries as the chart below shows,
we can build batteries that blow traditional lithium-ion out of the water. Keep in mind that the chart below is exponential,
meaning that fuel cell technology has 10 times the energy density of a typical cobalt-Li ion battery.
The various etal-Airbatteries including zinc-air, aluminum-air, and lithium-air, have some of the highest energy densities its possible to build.
The difficulties with aluminum-air construction, in particular, has been rapid degradation of the anode and, in early models of Al-Air, the release of hydrogen gas.
The studies in question are aimed all at enhancing the performance of Al-air batteries while extending their useful lifetimes typically,
creating a secondary aluminum-air battery adjacent to the primary buffered the accumulation of byproducts that normally prevent the battery from working properly over the long term.
The echargabilityof Al-air batteries requires some explanation. Al-air batteries are primary cells, which means they can be recharged via conventional means.
As the aluminum anode is consumed by contact with oxygen, hydrated aluminum forms as a byproduct.
which is why the batteries are referred to as rechargeable. Periodically, the aluminum anode will have to be replaced it not clear how often the Fuji Pigment battery would need servicing of this sort.
Could Al-air be the next big thing? New battery technologies and announcements are a dime a dozen,
but there reason to think that a workable Al-air technology could deploy within the next 2-5 years.
Al-air batteries have actually been used in specialized military applications for years, which is important it means there some preexisting expertise
The hydrated aluminum oxide solution produced during the battery normal operation would need to be recycled in some fashion
(and the weight of the aluminum anode in these batteries is unknown), but the team that performed that analysis noted that proper recycling would put Al-air in the same cost range as conventional internal combustion engines.
#New microprocessor claims 10x energy improvement As power consumption has become one of the most important metrics of CPU design,
the total amount of energy a chip leaks can result in higher power consumption than would result
can deliver power consumption equivalent to a Cortex-M0+part without compromising its M4 with FPU performance.
In other words, a subthreshold version of the Cortex-M4 with Cortex-M0 power consumption would be embedded an chip that meshed the best of both worlds incredible power efficiency
and make all-day smartwatch battery life a reality in the long run t
#Lasers create surface so hydrophobic that water bounces off like a ball In the study of hydrophobic surfaces,
#This cloudy-day black silicon solar cell can hit a record 22.1%efficiency When most people think of solar power,
or black, solar cell. They accomplished this by overlaying a thin, passivating film on the nanostructures by a process known as atomic layer deposition,
Black solar cells work really well on cloudy days. his is an advantage particularly in the north,
black cells generate considerably more electricity than traditional cells, even though both cells have identical efficiency values. sing the aforementioned process,
the black silicon isn limiting energy conversion efficiency. And thanks to the inherent properties of black solar cells, they can capture solar radiation at low angles,
generating more electricity over the full duration of a day as compared with traditional cells. ur record cells were fabricated using p-type silicon,
which is known to suffer from impurity-related degradation. There is no reason why even higher efficiencies could not be reached using n-type silicon or more advanced cell structures
The data shows the use of black silicon can result in a 3%increase in daily energy production
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