Sep 08 2010

Flying in Sunshine

Tag: Batteries, Cars, Christmas Trees, Electricity, Engineering, Light Bulbs, Skin, Steroids, Technology, The Sun — Gene Charleton @ 7:00 am
This plane runs on sun.

Sep 07 2010

Hands Down, Lithium-Ion Batteries are Better than Gas

Tag: Batteries, Cars, Electric Cars, Electric Vehicles, Electricity, Natural Resources, Renewable Energy — Discovery News - Top Stories @ 1:50 pm
A team of Swiss researchers has released conclusive data showing that the environmental impact of an electric vehicle is much less than previously thought.

Aug 31 2010

Super Capacitor Could Power Phone, Laptop for Days

Tag: Batteries, Devices, Electronics — Eric Bland @ 3:05 pm
If optimized, this new technology could fully charge consumer electronic devices almost instantaneously.

Aug 24 2010

Virus-Built Wearable Batteries Could Power Military

Tag: Batteries, Clothing, Devices, Electronics, Military, Military Uniforms, Soldiers — Eric Bland @ 4:00 pm
Viruses have plagued humanity for millennia, but now they've been tapped to build batteries that can be sprayed onto uniforms.

Aug 23 2010

Beyond the Black Box

Tag: Air Travel, Aircraft, Artifacts, Atlantic Ocean, Aviation, Batteries, Birds, Child, Colleges, Communication, Computers, Design, Devices, Disasters and Accidents, Electronics, Engaged, Engineering, Engines, Events, Experts, Eye, Fall, Father, Fear, Glass, Government, Health Insurance, History, Internet, Inventions, Investigation, Lawsuits, Logging, Mining, Movies, Murder, Navy, Oceania and Australia, Office, Officer, Polar Regions, Privacy, Radio, Safety, Satellites, Science, Seas, Sensors, Storage, Streams, Submarine, Suicide, Technology, The Future, Touch, Transportation — Discovery News - Top Stories @ 7:00 am
Instead of storing flight data on board, aircraft could easily send the information in real time to the ground.

Aug 17 2010

Soap and Wax Improve Battery’s Cost and Capacity

Tag: Batteries, Electricity, Green Electronics, Green Tech, Materials, Rechargeable Batteries — Alyssa Danigelis @ 2:05 pm
Soap and wax keeps the outside of a car clean and shiny but could also improve the battery inside.

Aug 17 2010

Channel Your Personal Power

Tag: Astronauts, Batteries, Biofuels, Candy, Cell Phones, Electricity, Electronics, Engineering, Fuel Cells, Laptops, Life Science, Sensors, iPods — Gene Charleton @ 7:00 am
A biofuel cell implanted in your arm could use oxygen and sugar to generate electricity.

Jul 21 2010

Shake, Shake, Shake This ‘Battery’

Tag: Batteries, Electronics, Green Tech, Rechargeable Batteries — Alyssa Danigelis @ 3:00 pm
Japanese products maker Brother Industries has prototypes for shakeable "batteries" that generate power from vibrations.

Jul 02 2010

A New Look at an Old Engine

Tag: Batteries, Cars, Consumption, Engineering, Engines, Exhaust and Emissions, Hybrid Cars, Internal Combustion, Motorcycles, Trucks — Gene Charleton @ 10:16 am
To hear some people tell it, the internal combustion engine is dead. But engineers are coming up with new ways to improve the engine's efficiency.

Jun 25 2010

Plastic Bags Into Power?

Tag: Batteries, Carbon, Electricity, Petroleum, Plastic, Plastic Bags, Recycling, Technology, Waste — Jessica Marshall @ 11:00 am
Why should a plastic bag languish in a landfill when it could be powering your computer?
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