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Goodbye, Cavities? Scientists Just Found a Way to Regrow Tooth Enamel

Scientists Say They've Figured Out How to Transcribe Your Thoughts From an MRI Scan

SanDisk stuffed 1 TB of storage into the smallest Type-C thumb drive ever

Calling Dr. Grok. Can AI Do Better than Your Primary Physician?

HUGE 32kWh LiFePO4 DIY Battery w/ 628Ah Cells! 90 Minute Build

What Has Bitcoin Become 17 Years After Satoshi Nakamoto Published The Whitepaper?

Japan just injected artificial blood into a human. No blood type needed. No refrigeration.

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Testing My First Sodium-Ion Solar Battery

A man once paralyzed from the waist down now stands on his own, not with machines or wires,...

Energy

Energy independence turns the gears of the visionary’s imagination, and grants us individual control of our modern lives. No meaningful alternative to the Crown’s system can be achieved without exploring decentralized energy production and storage.

GravityLight: lighting for the developing countries

GravityLight is a revolutionary new approach to storing energy and creating illumination.

SolarCity is designing a roof made of solar panels

SolarCity's next big product will be a "solar roof" that's entirely composed of solar panels -- a sleeker alternative to covering an existing roof in solar modules sometime after installation.

California Breaks Solar Record By Generating 8,030 Megawatts Of Electricity For Six Million Homes

Enough energy was generated to power more than 6 million households!

Solar cell sucks up CO2 and spits burnable fuel out the other side

Recreating a plant's ability to use sunlight to turn carbon dioxide into fuel, something known as artificial photosynthesis, is one of the holy grails of green energy research.

World's most efficient EV could cover 11,000 km on energy equivalent to 1L of gas

Road cars are getting more efficient, but they've still got a serious drinking problem compared to the super light creations coming out of the world's universities. The TUfast Eco Team has proven a little bit of energy can go a long way, having just

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Carbon Nanotube Fiber.....

This Guy Is So Hype On Graphite

Graphite is experimental gold

Everybody is missing the point of the Tesla-SolarCity deal

Last week, Tesla announced that it was pursuing an acquisition of SolarCity, the troubled solar-panel leasing company that is run by Tesla CEO Elon Musk's cousin Lyndon Rive.

Long-term power grid failures coming to America... do you have the tools to survive?

As part of its national Space Weather Strategy [PDF] released last fall, the White House has finally acknowledged what one expert has called a dramatic shift in emergency preparedness – namely, that three days' worth of food and supplies is far fro

Magnetic fridge eliminates gases, drastically reduces energy use

Cooltech has announced the first publicly available refrigerator using a magnetic cooling system, which is more efficient than standard fridges.

These Windows Can Go Opaque On Command

Panes block sunlight with the flip of a switch

Latest bionic leaf now 10 times more efficient than natural photosynthesis

Over the last few years, great strides have been made in creating artificial leaves that mimic the ability of their natural counterparts to produce energy from water and sunlight.

The spherical genius of the Hüttlin Kugelmotor

The car is not going to disappear anytime soon and neither is the combustion engine, despite the inevitable rise in fuel prices.

Solar Powered Grill Uses the Sun's Energy for Fire-Free Grilling

Many of us will be firing up our grills this weekend for some well-deserved barbecue time. After all, barbecuing is one of America's favorite pastimes however it certainly isn't one of our most environmentally friendly.

Peek Inside Tri Alpha Energy, a Company Pursuing the Ideal Power Source

No energy technology is more tantalizing than fusion, but no energy technology has proved more disappointing. So how has a fusion company in Southern California raised nearly half a billion dollars from the likes of Goldman Sachs and Paul Allen?

Floating Solar Panels May Be Coming To A Reservoir Near You

"Flotovoltaics" could be cheaper and more efficient than land-based panels

How to make a DIY Tesla Powerwall for $300

How to make a DIY Tesla Powerwall for $300

Transparent Solar Panels Will Turn Windows Into Green Energy Collectors

The MSU team emphasized on the see-through factor. They developed a transparent luminescent solar concentrator, or TLSC, that can be placed over a window or any other clear surface. The concentrator can harvest solar energy without affecting light tr

New world record set for converting sunlight to electricity

An Australian team has set a new record for squeezing as much electricity as possible out of direct, unfocused sunlight via a new solar cell configuration.

This Desk-Size Turbine Is Capable Of Powering An Entire Town

GE Global Research is testing a desk-size turbine that could power a small town of about 10,000 homes.

This Is How Much Land It Would Take To Power The Entire U.S. With Solar - Video

When put into perspective, it's rather shocking to see how little land area it would take to power the entire U.S. by solar.

Tesla Energy Reports Q1 Results: 2,500 Powerwalls and 100 Powerpacks Delivered

Tesla Motors included its energy storage branch sales results into its latest quarterly report.

Buckyball: The Magic Molecule

Our August 1991 cover story, in honor of Harry Kroto's passing

Adding silicon-sulfur into 3D graphene makes for game-changing battery potential

Researchers in China believe they're cracked the code on the elusive lithium-sulfur (Li-S) battery. Using three-dimensional (3D) graphene, the Beihang University researchers structured Li-S in such a way that they show high, real-world potential on b

Power dense zinc-manganese power unit as cheap as a car battery

A team of scientists working on analyzing energy flows in prototype zinc-manganese batteries have stumbled upon a new way to make these power cells much more reliable, with many more recharge cycles than the humble lead-acid car battery, but costing

Giant wave-riding platform design puts solar power out to sea

Sea-based wind farms are becoming a common sight in many parts of the world, but why not floating solar power stations?

Graphene-based ultracapacitors give trucks a boost of acceleration

At the Commercial Vehicle Show in Birmingham, UK, French transportation technology developer Adgero will unveil a curtainsider semi-trailer fitted with a regenerative braking system that utilizes ultracapacitors to provide a boost of acceleration.

Blockchain Technology Could Enable Next-Generation, Peer-To-Peer Energy Microgrids

An experimental energy microgrid in Brooklyn, New York, shows how energy-generating homes can become part of a peer-to-peer electricity system, Fast Coexist reports.

Tesla Energy Reveals Powerpack Pricing, Starting From 200 kWh Of Storage

Tesla Energy launched its online ordering site for the Powerpacks energy storage systems.

Nanowire battery electrode powers through hundreds of thousands of charge cycles

With high conductivity and a large surface area, nanowires have become quite the candidate for an advanced battery material. But at thousands of times thinner than a human hair, their delicate nature often causes them to fracture throughout the batte

Watch These Carbon Nanotubes Assemble Themselves

The flashiest discovery in science this week is a powerful force field that makes particles quickly come together.

Spinning nanotube fibers at Rice University

Scientists have created the first pure carbon nanotube fibers that combine many of the best features of highly conductive metal wires, strong carbon fibers and pliable textile thread. In a Jan. 11 paper in the journal Science, researchers from Rice U

Nanotube circuits self-assembled and powered at a distance via "Teslaphoresis"

Using a powerful electric force emitted by a Tesla coil, scientists at Rice University have made carbon nanotubes self-assemble to form a circuit linking two LEDs and then used the energy from that same field to power them.

Commercially-available NanoTritium battery can power microelectronics for 20+ years

When installing micro-electronic devices in locations that are expensive or hard to reach, or just downright dangerous, you don't want to have to keep returning to swap out a battery cell.

Techrules thinks it will get micro-turbines spinning in production cars

Describing itself as an automotive research and development company, China's Techrules is hell-bent on putting turbines into road-going vehicles.

By Harnessing Wave Power, Endless Renewable Energy Could Be A Possibility [Watch]

Australian-based company Carnegie Wave Energy Ltd. is generating energy from a CETO 6 unit off the coast of Western Australia for the largest naval base, HMAS Stirling.

New piston skirt coatings promise significant reduction in engine friction

The piston skirt and pin account for about 17 percent of the frictional loss in a combustion engine as they are the most difficult to keep lubricated and have the largest contact surfaces.

MIT's Innovative 3D Solar Tower Produces 20x the Energy of Traditional Panels

MIT researchers have discovered a way to maximize the efficiency of solar panels, effectively producing up to 20 times the solar output of traditional flat panels with the same surface area.

Zoom to Mars in 6 weeks with new Russian nuclear-fission engine

A nuclear power propulsion system could propel a spacecraft to Mars in just over a month, a huge step forward from the current 18 months required. Russia might test a nuclear engine as early as 2018, the head of the Rosatom nuclear corporation reveal

We May Need Fusion-Powered Rockets To Stop Comets From Destroying Earth

Sometimes you just need a rocket that flies at 2 million miles per hour

29 Essential Tips for the New Prepper: "Start Small. Develop Your Skills. Create a Plan"

Whether you are just starting out with prepping and are figuring out what to focus on first, or whether you are a veteran prepper tracing over your plans for potential flaws, you can always make improvements.

A touch of silver lets smart windows go from clear to translucent

Electricity causes Nanowires to compress the elastomer layers, distorting them in the process. As a result, the window goes from being completely clear to taking on a cloudy frosted-glass appearance.

These No-Power Appliances Are Designed to "Survive Anything In Comfort and Style"

13 Must Have Homesteading Items to Survive the Apocalypse In Style

Phone-charging hydroelectric plant fits in your backpack

About two years ago, Seoul-based company Enomad made news when it put mobile phone charging stations along the manmade Cheonggyecheon River that runs through the Korean capital's downtown.

Miniature fuel cell to keep drones aloft for over an hour and phones charged for a week

Drones are being utilized in everything from parcel delivery to search and rescue, but their limited flight times are restricting their ability to travel great distances or stay for extended periods of time in the field.

New Tech Could Give Coal a Scrubbing Until Renewables Are Ready

No matter how you feel about coal, you can't deny that it is very dirty stuff.

Beginner Moonshine and Fuel Making

This is a beginners guide to making moonshine and fuel. Learn how to distill alcohol, ethanol and even purify water.

HACKED!: Old laptop battery becomes a Power bank

HACKED!: Old laptop battery becomes a Power bank

100% solar-powered super villa makes Arab housing sustainable again

After oil ushered in an era of excess, many people in the Middle East stopped building sensible homes adapted to harsh weather conditions.

Steampunk effects unit powered by a single tea candle

As you light the candle-powered lamp and throw out some soothing background music with a candle-powered Bluetooth speaker, wouldn't it be good if you could add some candle-powered rotary speaker effects to your play along noodling?
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