A company called Air Company is manufacturing vodka derived from carbon dioxide emissions, a futuristic new beverage that can both get you drunk and make you feel a little betterContinue Reading
With a natural rubber apocalypse impending, petrochemical stakeholders such as Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company are looking for sustainable rubber alternatives, and they are focusing on soybean-based tyres. Goodyear saidContinue Reading
Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) are now collaborating with industry to evaluate a method that employs magnetic nanoparticles to extract important elements such asContinue Reading
Taller wind turbines provide a number of benefits over their shorter counterparts. They can reach higher altitudes where winds are stronger, without being hindered by vegetation, terrain, or buildings. BecauseContinue Reading
Tohoku University and UCLA researchers collaborated to make substantial progress toward high-voltage metal-free lithium-ion batteries that employ croconic acid, a tiny organic chemical. This acid, when used as a lithium-ionContinue Reading
Engineers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory claim to have invented a freeze–thaw battery that can store energy for months, allowing utilities to deliver electricity during power outages caused by severeContinue Reading
Engineers at MIT and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory have created a thermophotovoltaic (TPV) cell that turns heat into electricity with a conversion efficiency of more than 40%, outperforming standardContinue Reading
Howard Becker, a General Electric engineer, invented the first supercapacitors in the 1950s. NEC gave this name in 1978, and the device was utilized as a kind of backup powerContinue Reading
