Tidal Power Plants Work

The power of the rise and fall of the sea level or tidal power, can be harnessed to generate electricity.

Tidal Power Tidal power traditionally involves erecting a dam across the opening to a tidal basin. The dam includes a sluice that is opened to allow the tide to flow into the basin; the sluice is then closed, and as the…

Solar chair produces energy while you chill

Soft rock is all the rage these days on the MIT campus – SOFT Rockers, that is, a functional art installation by the institute’s school of architecture students, led by professor Sheila Kennedy.

Designboom reports that these solar powered outdoor loungers use the power of human balance to orient at an optimal angle to the sun.

While you recline in…

How to Upgrade a Home to Make It Energy Efficient

When electricity costs spike and gas prices skyrocket, homeowners turn to energy-efficient construction and products around the house to combat rising energy costs. Even minor upgrades to a home can result in substantial savings. While the upfront cost of “green” materials often exceeds the sticker price of more conventional models, the long-term…

Spray-on solar glass promises renewable energy for the masses

We’ve seen New Energy Technologies announce a series of advances in its attempt to turn windows into solar panels, and now the company says it has a working, 1-square-foot see-through glass prototype capable of generating electricity.

An earlier version of this solar window was just 4 inches by 4 inches, and New Energy says the boost in size…

Alternative Energy

Fossil fuels are nonrenewable, they draw on finite resources that will eventually dwindle, becoming too expensive or too environmentally damaging to retrieve. Alternative energy or renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar energy, are constantly replenished and will never run out.

Solar Most renewable energy comes either directly or indirectly from the sun. Sunlight, or solar energy, can be…

Greenerator brings eco energy to condos

Getting your entire apartment or condo onboard with wind or solar generation is often next-to-impossible.

Still, what you do on your own balcony is your own business.

At least that’s the idea behind an innovative concept design by Jonathan Globerson of Florida, who proposes a solution memorably entitled the Greenerator.

The Greenerator attaches via clamps to the handrail of your balcony and…

“Rocket” bike hits the road to promote renewable energy

2,500 miles is a long way to travel via e-bike – even on a recumbent that looks like it might belong to Speed Racer.

Still, that’s how far renewable energy advocate Tom Weis has come on his “rocket trike” in order to promote the goal of 100% renewable electricity for the U.S. in the next ten years.

Weis recently completed…

Fujitsu Develops New Energy Conversion Device

Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. recently announced a new hybrid energy harvesting device that can convert both heat and light into electricity. Different from other devices that generate electricity from heat and light with the help of other devices, this one from Fujitsu can manage that process all by itself. Furthermore, the hybrid device is also believed to “pave the…

In search of sustainable energy

Talk about a buzz kill: A team of MBA students has found that fuzzy and often misguided policy, technical roadblocks, affordability issues and out-of-tune leadership all add up to a challenging landscape for investment in sustainable energy.

The students, from the USC Marshall School of Business, recently reported their dour findings to an advisory council from the Asia Pacific…

How to Reduce Phantom Power

We all want to conserve energy, but because so much of our lives depend on electronic equipment, we can often feel as though conservation is like losing weight-really hard to do! But, what if you could reduce your electric bill by 10 percent a year just by eliminating “phantom power?” What is phantom power you ask? Phantom power…

Hydrinos a pie in the sky clean energy?

It isn’t every day an announcement heralding confirmation of a new process for producing vast amounts of cheap energy comes over the transom. So, skepticism is in order.

Blacklight is the New Jersey company famous – or infamous, in the view of the many in the physics community – for its decades-old claim to be able to do…