Technology

The Chancellor, Philip Hammond, is announcing new £36 million UK government funding for clean energy innovation in the construction sector through the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund. The funding will go to a consortium led by Swansea University, which develops new building materials and coatings which generate electricity from light and heat. This energy can be […]

An international team of researchers affiliated with UNIST has presented an innovative wearable technology that turns the user’s skin into a loudspeaker. This breakthrough was led by Professor Hyunhyub Ko in the School of Energy and Chemical Engineering at UNIST. Created in part to help the hearing and speech impaired, the new technology can be […]

Carbon pollution is continuing to pile up in the atmosphere. Time is of the essence with finding an effective, sustainable energy alternative for fossil fuels. Now, new research from Hokkaido University in Japan could catapult a widespread transition to solar energy. The Hokkaido scientists have developed a photoelectrode that can harvest 85 percent of all […]

Sembcorp Industries has announced a 20-year deal to support the Singapore operations, including a new data center, of tech giant Facebook with renewable power. In an official announcement on Tuesday, Sembcorp said it would supply Facebook with renewable energy via offsite solar panels installed on almost 900 rooftops in Singapore. The project is expected to […]

Lasers play roles in many manufacturing processes, from welding car parts to crafting engine components with 3D printers.* To control these tasks, manufacturers must ensure that their lasers fire at the correct power. But to date, there has been no way to precisely measure laser power during the manufacturing process in real time, while lasers […]

Physicists from the Institute for Solid State Physics at the University of Tokyo have generated the strongest controllable magnetic field ever produced. The field was sustained for longer than any previous field of a similar strength. This research could lead to powerful investigative tools for material scientists and may have applications in fusion power generation. […]

A newly engineered device has the potential to better exploit ocean-wave energy, protect coastal settlements and make offshore platforms ‘invisible’ to waves, researchers claim. Ocean waves are a potentially significant, readily available renewable energy resource. However, a lot of the techniques currently available to focus and harness wave power are highly inefficient. In a paper […]

A group of scientists at the University of Tokyo has recorded the largest magnetic field ever generated indoors—a whopping 1,200 tesla, as measured in the standard units of magnetic field strength. By comparison, this is a field strength about 400 times higher than those generated by the huge, powerful magnets used in modern hospital MRI […]

The Japanese energy conglomerate Marubeni will no longer build coal-fired power plants, and it plans to slash its ownership in coal-fired energy assets in half by 2030, according to the Japanese newspaper Nikkei (in Japanese; paywall). Tim Buckley of the Institute of Energy Economics and Financial Analysis called the move “one of the biggest breaking […]

Getting energy-efficient windows for your home is widely lauded as a way to cut down on drafts and save money on heating bills … only how much do these replacement windows cost—and really save you, anyway? To help you crunch the numbers and do some concrete cost-benefit analysis, here’s everything you need to know about […]