Energy

Along the road to wireless electricity, or "witricity," is a major new travel companion: a circuit developed by Duke University researchers capable of capturing energy from sound and wifi signal with an efficiency close to that of solar cells. It is a small device that ...

That immense, gigantic genius who was Nikola Tesla built a tower, the Wardenclyffe Tower, in the middle of Long Island: an installation, he said, capable of transmitting electricity without the need for wires. The project (with a mysterious fire attached) was shipwrecked among a thousand mysteries despite Tesla having already transmitted energy in other experiments ...

A toilet capable of extracting biogas from our ... er ... biological assets? It would be a pretty good innovation.

A Tunisian startup, Saphon Energy, has created a new model of a wind turbine without blades. It is inspired by the design and structure of sailboats and converts wind energy into electricity at double the efficiency and half the cost. This is the second prototype developed by the company: ...

The AFS (Engineers at Air Fuel Synthesis) based in the north of England claims to have produced 5 liters of synthetic oil within 3 months. It's a little bit, you might say. And give me some respite. The technique consists in extracting carbon dioxide from the air and hydrogen from the water, then combining them in a reactor ...

Lithium, the main element in the composition of the batteries that power our devices (and also in the war against bipolar personality disorder) is not omnipresent on Earth: several countries are forced to import it from abroad, and this shortage leads to significant changes in the prices of technological apparatuses: on its scarce future the ...

Already heard and does it sound like science fiction? According to the results of a 3-year study with 10 involved nations conducted by the International Academy of Astronautics, it could be a reality within 10 years. The biggest drawback of solar energy today is that it doesn't work in the evening or when the sky is cloudy: in the ...

And I only count humans: until yesterday it was considered an unpleasant waste product (except for diehard drink lovers). Today a team of British scientists has discovered a possible and very useful application that would help transform urine into electricity. Doctor Ioannis Ieropoulos and his ...

While the Bel Paese is struggling between economic reforms and new political pressures, yesterday the first independent test took place on a new energy technology called E-Cat: it is a system that uses low-energy nuclear reactions to produce huge quantities economic energy and ...