Credit: Routledge An industrial designer has suggested that old technologies could make a comeback for a more sustainable future—such as wind-up shavers, pedal-powered tools and manual lawn mowers. In his…
Tag: Energy & Green Tech
Utilizing electron spin for faster charging, higher capacity batteries
Credit: POSTECH Charging an electric vehicle usually takes about 10 hours or longer, and even with fast-charging methods, it takes at least 30 minutes. That is assuming there is an…
Lithium batteries have a 4-hour limit. Mateo Jaramillo hopes to solve that
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Wind and solar power are sometimes dinged for not producing electricity 24 hours a day, but one of the most abundant minerals on the planet, iron,…
How microgrids can help communities adapt to wildfires
Griffith Park brush wildfire and the Woolsey fire in California. Credit: Jorge Villalba/iStock Wildfires have become increasingly frequent due to climate change, with record occurrences in areas not historically prone…
Engineers create continuously tunable thermal regulators
Zixin Xiong, a Purdue University PhD candidate in mechanical engineering, studies thermal transport at high temperatures in the Marconnet Thermal and Energy Conversion Lab. Purdue professor Xiulin Ruan and associate…
Photocatalytic concrete for clean air in underground tunnels
An artificial light source has been installed, allowing the photocatalytic function to work even underground where natural light does not reach. Credit: Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology…
