The 1st Int’l Rechargeable Battery Expo held in Tokyo at the beginning of March was pleased to announce a lot of battery manufacturers interested in future technologies, in new developments for various industries.
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CalTech Researchers Creating Near-Perfect Silicon Nanowire Solar Cell
Posted in March 16th, 2010
by Ovidiu in Solar Power
A team of researchers from the California Institute of Technology have invented a new type of solar cell whose active ingredients are nanometer-sized silicon wires. The solar cell they prototyped thus uses only a small fraction of the silicon used to make conventional solar cell, the rest being made of a polymer.
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Energy-Efficient Way to Produce Hydrogen from Noise and Vibrations
Posted in March 16th, 2010
by Mike in Uncategorized
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have found a new way to produce hydrogen by using ambient noise to turn water into usable hydrogen fuel. The process harvests small amounts of waste energy in the form of stray vibrations and noise from the environment to break the chemical bonds in water and generate hydrogen and oxygen.
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