Cow power could generate electricity for millions Posted: 4 months ago by AutumnLotus
Converting livestock manure into a domestic renewable fuel source could generate enough electricity to meet up to three per cent of North America’s entire consumption needs and lead to a significant reduction in greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs).
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Life at the jolt: New insights into fuel cell that uses bacteria to generate electricity Posted: 11 months ago by AutumnLotus
Researchers at the Biodesign Institute are using the tiniest organisms on the planet 'bacteria' as a viable option to make electricity. In a new study, lead author Andrew Kato Marcus and colleagues Cesar Torres and Bruce Rittmann have gained critical insights that may lead to commercialization of a promising microbial fuel cell (MFC) technology.
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New Fuel Cell Cleans Up Pollution And Produces Electricity Posted: 12 months ago by AutumnLotus
Scientists in Pennsylvania are reporting development of a fuel cell that uses pollution from coal and metal mines to generate electricity, solving a serious environmental problem while providing a new source of energy.
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Scientists devise way to generate electricity from making beer Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
Scientists have devised a way for to generate electricity from brewery waste water - by using sugar-consuming bacteria.
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How a Giant Solar Tower Could Power the Future Posted: 5 months ago by deEPCHIll
A new energy concept called a solar tower could generate enough electricity for 200,000 homes. Looking like a giant smokestack, it would release no noxious fumes — just sun-heated air.
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How to generate electricity using two candles. Posted: 2 years ago by kensai
Are you fed up with the electricity company bills that slip under your door every month? Well, here is something that the power companies dont want you to know, and that is how to generate electricity using two candles! What? You dont believe me? Well check it out for yourselves! It might not be enough to light up a house, but hey.... get a bigger candle and you can make wonders! Tesla, you are still remembered! Respect...
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Electricity from Dirt Posted: 2 months ago by Bornbad
It turns out wind power, solar power and lunar power are not the only possible renewable energy sources for our future. Dirt power might be next.
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New Technology Turns Exhaust Into Electricity Posted: 6 months ago by 2manyusernames
Two thirds of your car's fuel is burnt up as heat. A German company has announced plans to develop a generator which will use that heat to create electricity. This could cut gasoline usage by 5-7%.
This is a different plan than talked about here
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Food scraps turned into electricity, vehicle fuel Posted: 2 years ago by hypnotode
Each ton of broccoli spears, cantaloupe rinds and fish bones could produce enough energy to provide electricity to power 10 average California homes for one day.
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Karachi power cuts hit millions Posted: 9 months ago by topofall
Millions of people in Pakistan's largest city have been without electricity, following a power outage.
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All UK Domestic Electricity To Come From Wind Power By 2020 Posted: 12 months ago by pocksucket
John Hutton, Business Secretary has announced plans to build 7000 offshore wind turbine generators in the next 12 years, increasing the amount of energy generated from wind 30 times.
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Denmark banks on offshore wind power for 'clean' future Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
Denmark, a world leader in wind energy production and consumption, has built the world’s largest offshore wind park in the North Sea as it aims to generate 75 percent of its electricity needs with wind power by 2025.
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Lights out in Gaza Posted: 10 months ago by keroberos32
The only power plant in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip has shut down because of a lack of fuel, Palestinian officials say, blaming Israeli restrictions.
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Artificial Muscle Heals Itself & Generates Electricity Posted: 8 months ago by MandolinOrange
The research, parts of which are already being used in Japan to generate electricity from ocean waves, could be used to make walking robots, develop better prosthetics, or even charge your iPod.
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Nanomaterial turns radiation directly into electricity Posted: 8 months ago by AutumnLotus
Materials that directly convert radiation into electricity could produce a new era of spacecraft and even Earth-based vehicles powered by high-powered nuclear batteries, say US researchers.
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'Power windows' a bright idea Posted: 8 months ago by AutumnLotus
A Queensland academic is helping to develop energy-generating windows that could eventually provide enough electricity to power a standard home.
The glass solar cells contain titanium dioxide and are coated in a dye that increases light absorption.
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Garbage dump to spark electricity Posted: 2 years ago by suebe
Town leaders said methane, a byproduct of the garbage that is decomposing at the landfill, could generate power to operate the park's lights, driving range, amphitheatre and clubhouse.
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'Crowd Farm' Converts Footsteps into Electricity Posted: 1 year ago by DrNothing
A responsive sub-flooring system would be placed under, say, the platform of a subway terminal. The blocks that make up the system would depress slightly under the force of human footsteps. As the blocks slipped against each other, they would generate power in the form of an electric current.
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Taming Tornadoes Might Generate Power Posted: 1 year ago by deepchill
A full scale vortex engine would produce a funnel cloud that would stretch several kilometers into the atmosphere. The artificial tornado would be powered at the base by waste heat (ideally from a power-generating facility).
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The real gas guzzler: Car that turns hydrogen into electricity hits the road Posted: 5 months ago by AutumnLotus
Introducing the family car that runs on hydrogen and pumps out only pure water from its exhaust pipe.
Honda's FCX Clarity is the world's first production hydrogen-powered 'fuel cell' car - with its own onboard power station which creates electricity to drive its motor.
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Woman on oxygen machine dies after power cut: family Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
A New Zealand woman on an oxygen machine died shortly after a power company cut the electricity supply to her home over an unpaid bill.
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