3D printing could lead to more efficient battery designs for small low powered devices.

Link to article

Organic Solar Cells

Organic Solar Cells video, this shows that there is promise in this technology. So many mysteries man has yet to crack.

Superb Owl...

These adorable owl cakes are a hoot to make, check them out!

Source: Good Home Design

Link: Owl Cake Instructions

New Wind Turbine Design

These turbines are similar to how our Wind Belt series of products work.
These turbines should be cheaper (and hopefully safer for birds).

Read more about these at the link below:

New wind turbines

Dye solar the future of solar panels?

New technology uses a special dye that releases stored energy from light has been prototyped, and it looks very promising.

As Reuters states: "New miniature sized dye solar cell technology developed by an Israeli company can be installed onto devices and charge them with indirect light, making batteries obsolete. "

A video is available here at this link...

Some of the first dye-sensitized solar was created in 1988, but it wasn't until about 1991 that any of these cells had potential due to the low efficiency.

3G Solar Photovoltiacs claim their devices to have up to 3x or more the efficiency of other photovoltiacs, notably under indoor lighting conditions.

You can find out more about these cells at their company website:
3G Solar

New advances in hydrogen fuel technology

A new composite material coupled with an organic based bacteria could act as a catalyst for hydrogen fuel technologies. Typically something like platinum (which is still a rather rare and expensive element) would be used to help catalyses the process which enables hydrogen fuel production to occur. Now this new technology could be used instead. Using nano technology and bio-engineering components this new technology could be used directly with a fuel cell or in the production of hydrogen. The bacteria is inert since only the shell of the bacteria is used to contain the bio-material (modified hydroganese) and enzymes.  Read more from the article below, there is also a link to the paper written about this technology.

Source: New hydrogen fuel technology

New clear solar panels

New clear solar panels may lead the way to panels on windows. These panels store energy in a spectrum our eyes can't see making them appear to be transparent. This is definitely some great progress in solar adoption. It does not state the efficiency or other information, but this is something to keep an eye on. Source: Phys.org Link: Link

Let's throw some graphene into the mix...

Nano-scale wetting phenomenon to produce voltage by harvesting phase change producing currents -

It is possible to produce a few picowatts from humidity. This could be scaled up massively and could yield a future atmospheric energy generating apparatus. If anything it is more useful information and helps to propel energy sciences a little tiny bit further on.





Further reading: http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/apl/105/1/10.1063/1.4886798

New Nuclear Fusion Technology

A new patent by researchers for a nuclear fusion reactor using inertial confinement to generate electric power has recently been filed for. This reactor could be used as a power station to generate electricity or even drive ships and submarines. The advantage over this technology is the lower risk of any possible containment versus traditional nuclear fission technology.

Here is a timelapse video of one being constructed in Germany (A different design)


Source: Science Daily

Link: Science Daily Nuclear Fusion

New solar cells mean greater efficiency

New "quantum dot" technology means for greater efficiency. These new cells have many times more photovoltaic cells and can produce much better power output.

Photo source: Gizmag


One of the extreme advantages over this new technology is that it can be produced at room temperature. Traditional solar cells (PV technology) requires a great deal of energy to produce.


Full story here:
http://phys.org/news/2014-05-solar-cells-quantum-dot-photovoltaics-efficiency.html

Mushroom Packaging

A new Vice story features how mushrooms can be grown into a medium that can be used as packing and other material. Styrene can even be found in your blood because of how prolific it is. It is ubiquitous and does not seem to be going away anytime soon. 

Read the full article here:
http://www.vice.com/upgrade/mushroom-plastics

1937 Solar Power

This incredible video demonstrates just a few things we are replicating today. Cheap abundant harmful fossil fuels of the era kept these types of technologies from being advanced. Now we need to go back into our history books and see what else is there for us to RE discover.



Source: Gizmodo
LINK: Gizmodo article

An article about solar refrigeration:
Solar Refrigeration

Will New Gas May Eliminate All Carbon Emissions?

HydroInfra Technologies, based in Sweden, claims to have developed the answer to greenhouse gases and fossil fuel emissions, stating that their Hydro Nano Gas “instantly neutralizes carbon fuel pollution emissions.”

 Following years of research and development the company believes it has created a safe, cost effective way to reduce all carbon emissions to zero, and is now looking to bring its technology to market, having already signed a joint venture to convert ships to use HNG. HydroInfra Technologies will concentrate their efforts on marketing HNG to international shipping companies, and coal or oil-burning power plants around the world, stating that inserting HNG into the exhaust system has been proven to completely reduce pollution emissions to zero.

Source: Wall St Cheat Sheet

 More information here: HydroInfra

What happened to the HHO car?

The company had shown a lot of promise. Company officials were discussing business with automotive manufacturers. So what happened? You would have thought that this company would have licensed some of its patents.

Will we ever see a HHO car? Read more here: HHO car from Japan

Amazing new artificial leaf

Once engineering costs come down, it may be possible for this "artifical leaf" technology to become available in close to 5 years time. BBC Video about the technology here

Green Transportation

Still one of the most important things in improving the carbon dump problem is going to be cleaner transportation. Ultra high mileage cars always make the news, but lets hope they can do more than give the news agencies a flashy headline. Elio Motors

Bladeless wind turbine

bladeless wind turbine This prototype uses water droplets that create a charge when they are blown away from the vents by wind.

Sphere glass solar energy concentrator

spherical glass solar energy generator by rawlemon

New energy inventions from nanotechnology

Interesting stuff, let us know in the comments what you think!

Self contained urban energy source

I really like this concept, I would love to see this expanded upon.
The weight of the batterie(s) would def be enough to allow this thing
to continue to sit upright, unless of course there is gail force winds
or above.


I think the idea is to pull this out of a garage or shed at the time of an emergency.

For this to be viable you would need some stronger panels for sure.