Tag Archives : efficiency

Many attempts have been made so far to perk up the efficiency of the biggest green resource earth boasts of- the Sun. Another discovery lining up for this effort is the “nanostructure films” created by the chemical engineers at Oregon State University (OSU). What makes this discovery unique is that it can be applied on any surface to increase the [...]

Following the 2007 federal energy bill that phases out inefficient incandescent light bulbs beginning in 2012, the good old technology eschewed. With consumers opting incandescent bulbs over florescent ones, researchers have been striving to make the former better and more efficient. Philips Lighting’s Halogena Energy Savers are the opening ones [...]

The minute you decide to get a new TV for your living room, the first question that pops up in your head is- which one should I go for, LCD or plasma TV? Then you start comparing the prices, the companies, specifications, offers and what not. But, it’s not just the one-time investment price we need to consider while buying a new television. What’s [...]

Sounds like the most recent version of the world famous French writer Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days, right! Well, this is not an excellent work of fiction, but surely an excerpt of revolutionary reality. For the very first time in history, the Solar Taxi has traveled around the world without drinking even a drop of gasoline. Louis [...]

Technology has found many alternatives to the conventional lithium ion batteries. A new study by the French researcher has raised the chances of micro-sized direct methanol fuel cells (DMFC) which have 16 times more energy potential compared to the Li-ion batteries which may be soon replaced by the former. The researcher had increased the efficiency [...]

Solar energy a very convenient form of renewable energy, emerging economies like China would benefit a lot from it. What is holding them back from using it then? Efficiency, cost or maybe both. Researchers from the Australian National University (ANU), Tianjin University in China and Chromasun, a Silicon Valley company have come together to make solar [...]

Fed up of having to replace batteries often? Worried that your kids might pick one up and play? Taiwan’s Prof. Chungpin Hovering Liao of National Formosa University invented world’s first chlorophyll organic battery that will drive your fears away. You know what this battery does? It turns any liquid into electricity, be it water or urine or coffee! This [...]

Mercedes, the luxury car company has shown off its creative capabilities at Los Angeles Auto Show this year. Its Formula Zero Sail Racer was presented as a part of the Design Los Angeles automobile Design Challenge at the show and it succeeded in satisfying the demands of the segment- a cool race car for 2025 that doesn’t need re-fuelling to complete [...]

The University of New South Wales’ ARC Photovoltaic Centre of Excellence previously held a record for the highest solar cell efficiency of 24.7% which has been lately modified by the same centre to 25%. This is just one among the six records achieved by the newly devised cells. With this the International Standard of measurement of efficiency of [...]

Thinking of getting a hybrid car or feeling guilty about driving the same smoke emitting automobile? Blade will show the way to a greener vehicle. No, I’m not talking about that fictional superhero but this device created by Sabertec is no less compared to him. Like the superhero hunts down vampires, this apparatus cuts down on the particulate matter [...]