Energy Harvesting
Funding Opportunity: Develop Advanced Biomass Supply Chain Technologies
Posted in Alternative Fuels, Biomass, Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy, Energy Harvesting, Energy, News on
Thursday, January 31 2013
The Department of Energy has announced about $6 million in funding for projects that will develop and demonstrate supply chain technologies to deliver commercial-scale lignocellulosic biomass feedstocks to biorefineries across the country.
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Harnessing the Power of Spinach
Posted in Electronics, Solar Power, Renewable Energy, Energy Harvesting, News on
Friday, September 07 2012
Vanderbilt University researches have developed a way to combine Photosystem 1 (PS1), the photosynthetic protein that converts light into electrochemical energy in spinach with silicon (the material used in solar cells), in a fashion that produces substantially more electrical current than has been reported by previous biohybrid solar cells.
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Organic Photovoltaics - Forecasts for the Next Decade
Posted in Electronics & Computers, Solar Power, Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy, Energy Harvesting, Automotive, Features on
Wednesday, June 20 2012
Today there are multiple devices available for harnessing solar energy. Each device offers a different set of characteristics. Wafer-based devices consist of mono or polycrystalline and are the most mature technology due to the experience borrowed from the microelectronics industry.
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Underwater Solar Cells?
Posted in Electronics, Power Management, Sensors, Solar Power, Renewable Energy, Energy Harvesting, News on
Thursday, June 07 2012
Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Electronics Science and Technology Division, have developed high-band-gap solar cells capable of producing sufficient power to operate electronic sensor systems at water depths of 9 meters.
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Generating Electricity From Viruses?
Posted in Power Management, Displays/Monitors/HMIs, Energy Harvesting, Energy, Nanotechnology, News on
Monday, May 14 2012
Berkeley Lab scientists have developed a way to generate power using harmless viruses that convert mechanical energy into electricity. Their generator is the first to produce electricity by harnessing the piezoelectric properties of a biological material.
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Tailoring Metal Oxides for Green Technological Applications
Posted in Batteries, Electronics & Computers, Power Management, Metals, Energy Storage, Solar Power, Renewable Energy, Energy Harvesting, News on
Thursday, April 26 2012
Harnessing solar energy can be as simple as tuning the optical and electronic properties of metal oxides at the atomic level by making an artificial crystal or super-lattice ‘sandwich.’ "Metal oxides can be tailored to meet all sorts of needs, which is good news for technological applications, specifically in energy generation and flat screen displays,” said Louis Piper, assistant professor of physics at Binghamton University.
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Nanotrees Turn Sunshine into Hydrogen Fuel
Posted in Alternative Fuels, Greenhouse Gases, Solar Power, Renewable Energy, Energy Harvesting, Nanotechnology, News on
Wednesday, March 14 2012
University of California, San Diego electrical engineers are building a forest of tiny nanowire trees in order to cleanly capture solar energy and harvest it for hydrogen fuel generation. Nanowires, which are made from abundant natural materials like silicon and zinc oxide, offer a cheap way to deliver hydrogen fuel on a mass scale.
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Device Uses Temperature Differences to Create Electrical Charge
Posted in Batteries, Power Management, Materials, Thermoelectrics, Energy Harvesting, Nanotechnology, News on
Wednesday, February 22 2012
Power Felt is a new thermoelectric device developed by researchers at the Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials at Wake Forest University. By touching a small piece, body heat is converted into an electrical current.
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Solar Decathlon 2011 Has A Winner
Posted in Building Technologies, Green Design & Manufacturing, Recycling Technologies, Solar Power, Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy, Energy Harvesting, Energy, News, Videos, GDM on
Monday, October 03 2011
The University of Maryland has won top honors at the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2011 by designing, building, and operating the most cost-effective, energy efficient, and attractive solar-powered house. Purdue University took second place followed by New Zealand (Victoria University of Wellington) in third.
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Thermal Energy Harvesting Enables Wireless Sensor Deployment
Posted in Waste-to-Energy, Batteries, Electronics & Computers, Green Design & Manufacturing, Recycling Technologies, Thermoelectrics, Energy Harvesting, Energy, Products, GDM on
Monday, September 26 2011
Marlow Industries (Dallas, TX) has introduced the EverGen series of thermoelectric-based energy harvesting devices, offering a zero-maintenance power solution for wireless sensor applications. EverGen thermal energy harvesters power wireless sensors without a battery, reducing replacement costs.
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Human Gait to Power Portable Electronics
Posted in Pollution, Batteries, Electronics & Computers, Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy, Energy Harvesting, Energy, News, GDM on
Friday, August 26 2011
Engineering researchers Tom Krupenkin and J. Ashley Taylor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed a new energy-harvesting technology that could reduce our dependence on batteries and instead capture the energy of human motion to power portable electronics.
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With Photovoltaic Polarizers, Devices Could be Powered by Sunlight
Posted in Piezoelectrics, Solar Power, Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy, Energy Harvesting, Energy, News, GDM on
Wednesday, August 10 2011
UCLA engineers have created a novel concept for harvesting and recycling energy for electronic devices — one that involves equipping these devices' LCD screens with built-in photovoltaic polarizers, allowing them to convert ambient light, sunlight, and even their own backlight into electricity.
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LAUNCH: Energy Challenge Is Open For Submissions
Posted in Energy Storage, Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy, Energy Harvesting, Energy, Government Initiatives, Government, News, GDM on
Tuesday, August 02 2011
NASA, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the U.S. Department of State, and NIKE formed LAUNCH to identify, showcase, and support innovative approaches to global challenges through a series of forums. The LAUNCH: Energy Challenge has begun and focuses on sustainable energy challenges for the developed and developing worlds.
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Thermal Energy Harvesting Solution
Posted in Thermoelectrics, Energy Harvesting, Energy, Products, GDM on
Friday, June 10 2011
Nextreme Thermal Solutions (Durham, NC) and Arkansas Power Electronics International, Inc. (APEI) (Fayetteville, AR) are developing a thermal energy harvesting solution for a wireless sensor system to monitor
the health of bearings in turbine engines. The energy harvester is based on
Nextreme's Thermobility wireless power generation platform and will be
integrated into APEI's high-temperature wireless sensor electronics package.
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Insight into Bacteria for Solar Energy
Posted in Solar Power, Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy, Energy Harvesting, Energy, News, GDM on
Thursday, March 24 2011
Researchers from Washington University in St. Louis and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have used small-angle neutron scattering to analyze the structure of chlorosomes in green photosynthetic bacteria. Chlorosomes are efficient at collecting sunlight for conversion to energy, even in low-light and extreme environments.
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Extending Battery Life for Mobile Devices
Posted in Piezoelectrics, Batteries, Electronics & Computers, Solar Power, Energy Efficiency, Thermoelectrics, Energy Harvesting, Energy, News, GDM on
Friday, March 11 2011
University of Illinois engineers have developed a form of ultra-low-power digital memory that is faster and uses 100 times less energy than similar available memory. The technology could give future portable devices much longer battery life between charges.
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Universal Energy Harvesting Kit
Posted in Piezoelectrics, Electrodynamics, Batteries, Electronics & Computers, Energy Storage, Solar Power, Energy Efficiency, Thermoelectrics, Energy Harvesting, Energy, Products, GDM on
Friday, March 04 2011
Cymbet Corporation (Elk River, MN) has introduced its EnerChip™ EP CBC-EVAL-09 Universal Energy Harvesting evaluation kit. The EVAL-09 supports all types of ambient energy harvesting from light, vibration, thermal gradients, and flow/motion.
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Thermoelectric Energy Conversion Technology for High-Altitude Airships
Posted in Batteries, Electronics & Computers, Solar Power, Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy, Thermoelectrics, Energy Harvesting, Energy, Briefs, GDM on
Monday, February 07 2011
The High Altitude Airship (HAA) has various application potential and mission scenarios that require onboard energy harvesting and power distribution systems. The power technology for HAA maneuverability and mission-oriented applications must come from its surroundings, e.g. solar power.
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Solar Reactor Converts Carbon Dioxide and Water Into Fuel
Posted in Alternative Fuels, Green Design & Manufacturing, Greenhouse Gases, Solar Power, Renewable Energy, Energy Harvesting, Energy, GDM on
Wednesday, January 19 2011
Cerium oxide — or ceria — is a common metal most famously used in self-cleaning ovens, and it is the centerpiece of a new technology from California Institute of Technology that concentrates solar energy and uses it to efficiently convert carbon dioxide and water into fuels.
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