Apr
9
The Technology Transfer Issues of Batteries
April 9, 2009 | 1 Comment
It may not be just the technology that is holding up progress, rather its more likely the technology transfers between engineering skills that is a subtle and slowing effect. There is a lot or research going on for batteries. There is a lot of development in automobile design racing to better products, too. The battery […]
Apr
8
A New Way to Split Hydrogen From Water
April 8, 2009 | 7 Comments
One great goal for many is the sunlight driven design of efficient systems for splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen. A new innovation developed by Prof. David Milstein and colleagues of the Weizmann Institute’s Organic Chemistry Department, describes the steps in new process that rises to the challenge. The Institute’s team is demonstrating a new […]
Apr
7
Racing With Alternative Fuels
April 7, 2009 | 6 Comments
Prince Albert II of Monte Carlo instigated the Monte Carlo Rally for Alternative Energy Vehicles that was first organized in 2007. There you could see a Ford Fiesta race a Tesla Roadster, with wildly different results. They don’t complete in the same class. The interest in alternative fuels is gaining more momentum with even Americans […]
Apr
6
Hideki Kimura, professor at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, School of Engineering at Tokai University announced his research group has developed a brushless DC motor that coverts electric power to motor output at a conversion efficiency of more than 96%. The announcement was made last week during the 56th Spring Meeting of the […]
Apr
3
A Ultracapacitor Built From Carbon Nanotubes and Nanowires
April 3, 2009 | 8 Comments
Chongwu Zhou of USC describes a line of prototype devices built from metal oxide nanowires with carbon nanotubes in a newly published paper titled “Flexible and Transparent Supercapacitor based on Indium Nanowire / Carbon Nanotube Heterogeneous Films” in the journal Applied Physics Letters (Vol.94, Issue 4, Page 043113, 2009). The research continues a line of […]
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