NASA and Nissan Working Together To Develop Self-Driving, Zero Emission Cars By End Of 2015

NASA and Nissan have entered a five-year agreement in order to work with each other to develop self-driving cars. Nissan will be granted access to utilize NASA’s Ames Research Center to test the company’s self-driving…

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BetaRay: “Giant Marble Ball” Harvests 70% More Solar Energy Than Photovoltaic Modules

Harvesting Sunlight For Electricity Or Thermal Energy Nearly everyone once held a magnifying glass in hand and concentrated the sun to burn a leaf or grass. We were told that the magnifying glass had a…

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Critical Uniformity Requirement For Contact Lens Curing Greatly Surpassed With Despatch Oven

To manufacture contact lenses, a monomer resin called “hydrogel” is injected into molds and heat-cured in an oven. The process polymerizes the hydrogel to produce hard, slightly flexible lenses. The lenses are then removed from…

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New Wind Tree Design: Green “Leaves” Are Actually Wind Turbines Twirling On The Branches

With an eye on art and a brain on science, energy conservation can have an aesthetic, as well as ecological, reward. In a testament to the value of taking time to ponder and let the…

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India Poised To Have The World’s Largest Solar Power Plant… A 750 MW Project!

India is aggressively pursuing a plan to install “ultra mega solar power plants” in order to support a 750 MW power plant that is sure to be the world’s largest solar power plant. At the…

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New Thermoelectric Generator Could Save Military Billions In Fuel Consumption Costs

GMZ Energy’s new thermoelectric generator represents a potential breakthrough in thermal technology as it is capable of capturing heat from the exhaust of vehicles and then converting it into useable energy. Funded by Army and…

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Thermocouple Market to Increase to $1.42 Billion By 2020

Despite being old technology, thermocouples are still widely used for industrial and commercial applications, and with the thermocouple market forecasted to reach $1.42 billion by 2020, companies will need to fend off competition from other…

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Southern California Edison Is Betting On Storing Energy In Giant 450-Gallon Ice Packs

California’s wind-reliant electric grid has an underlying problem that electric company Southern California Edison plans to address. Wind turbines spin continuously, resulting in a surplus of power, especially at night when most people are not…

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