Posted on 18 November 2008
Tags: electricity, Energy, Generator, Power, Turbine, Wind, Wind Generator, Wind Turbine
A new startup called ExRo Technologies has developed a new generator to harvest energy from wind, that could both lower the cost and increase the power output by up to 50%.
Their new generator can run efficiently in a wider range of conditions than current generations do, so that more than 90% of it’s energy can [...]
Posted on 13 June 2008
Tags: electricity, electromagnets, Energy, invisible material, metamaterial, Science
A partnership between Duke University and Boston College turned out to be very beneficial for the science world, as they obtained a metamaterial that absorbs all the light it gets (no, it doesn’t make things invisible), thus capable of generating more energy even than the solar cells.
It can’t be used as a camouflage, as it’s [...]