Technology

Engineers have launched a huge garbage collection device to gather plastic material floating in the Pacific Ocean between California and Hawaii. The plastic makes up what is called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. It is the world’s largest spread of garbage, at two times the size of the state of Texas. The organization Ocean Cleanup […]

Ready-made snap-together solar panels that turn waste heat into hot water are being developed at Brunel University London in a £10 million sustainable energy scheme starting next month. With energy use in buildings predicted to double or even triple by 2050, and most home energy used to heat water, project PVadapt promises to crack several […]

Nat Fisch, associate director for academic affairs at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), and professor of astrophysical sciences and director of the Program in Plasma Physics at Princeton University, has received a 2018 Distinguished Career Award from Fusion Power Associates (FPA). The FPA is a research and educational foundation […]

Xcel Energy has a new way to inspect the hundreds of thousands of miles of electric and natural gas systems– from the air. This time, the FAA granted Xcel a special waiver for the process. The utility company is using drones to make sure that safety standards are being met. “Today’s flight takes us a […]

News about climate change has been grim this year. On Monday, Secretary-General of the U.N. warned that the nations of the world were falling behind on commitments to combat climate change, and that if things don’t improve by 2020, we risk facing a runaway climate scenario. That same day, the EPA announced plans to roll […]

MSU scientists have a new proof of concept for a biofuel production platform that uses two species of marine algae and soil fungi. It lowers cultivation and harvesting costs and increases productivity, factors that currently hold back biofuels from being widely adopted. The species of alga, Nannochloropsis oceanica, and fungus, Mortierella elongata, both produce oils […]

ISLAMABAD: The much-trumpeted idea of installing a waste-to-energy plant in the federal capital after its complete success in Punjab may not help the civic authority handle the total trash generated in the capital. This is due to the lack of a landfill site provided for the completion of the project. The plant aims to create […]

The momentum seen nationally for a program designed to make commercial buildings more energy-efficient is evident in Denver, with a locally based financier announcing an ambitious new venture and a California-based company unveiling a makeover for the Petroleum Building downtown. Mark Boyer, president and CEO of Denver-based Lever Energy Capital, said his company has the […]

Bengaluru-based MinionLabs has designed a smart energy device that monitors and analyses energy consumption of multiple devices, and helps reduce energy spends . Many factors contribute to high energy bills in an organisation. While we can control a few things and cut down on power use, there are others we simply cannot change. However, businesses […]

Nuclear fusion has the potential to offer almost unlimited clean energy, but harnessing it is extremely difficult. Plasma reaching temperatures of 150 million degrees Celsius needs to be produced by fusing two lighter atomic nuclei to form a heavier nucleus—the same process that powers the Sun. But like the Sun, the plasma can produce bursts […]