Archives: Electricity

Artificial Leaves Becoming Reality

March 5, 2019 | By Kevin | No Comments | Filed in: Electricity.

In case you haven`t heard until now, researchers tried to develop the so-called artificial leaves, a research project that might soon become reality, but which for some time now had trouble with actually placing it in a natural environment. Artificial leaves imitate photosynthesis, a natural process in which plants transform water and carbon dioxide from • Read More »

MIT Creates Device to Create Electricity from Daily Temperature Swings

March 6, 2018 | By Kevin | No Comments | Filed in: Electricity.

A team of graduate students in MIT’s Department of Chemical Engineering has developed the thermal resonator prototype, a device that captures energy from swings of ambient air temperature. A report in the journal Nature Communications showed evidence that thermoelectric devices can generate power when one side has a temperature that is different from that of • Read More »

Shape Memory Alloy Metal Produces Renewable Electricity

December 11, 2017 | By Kevin | No Comments | Filed in: Electricity.

    Shape memory alloys are metals that can shift from one predetermined shape to another depending on the temperature it is subjected to. It was discovered 60 years ago and has since been used in different fields, including biomedicine and aeronautical engineering. But it has continuously refused to harvest energy from hot water – • Read More »

How Green is the Internet?

June 1, 2011 | By Kevin | No Comments | Filed in: Electricity.

If the Internet were a country it would rank fifth in the world for energy usage according to a recent report from Greenpeace. For those of you keeping track at home, that means that data centers around the world use more energy annually than India or Germany. The report, released in April this year, examined • Read More »