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Converting Waste Heat to Electricity

Syndicated — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 08:01:52 +0000

With rapid industrialization, the world has seen the development of a number of items or units, which generate heat. Until now this heat has often been treated as a waste, making people wonder if this enormous heat being generated can be transformed into a source of electric power. Now, with the physicists at the [...]
Posted in: Future Energy, Inventions, Waste Energy

Costs for Thermo-photovoltaic Cells Significantly Reduced

Syndicated — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 06:54:50 +0000

Thermo-photovoltaic (TPV) cells are great for converting radiation from any heat source to power. These cells can generate power from the wasted heat which gets released when glass or steel is produced. Adding these TPV cells to domestic power systems can help generate power along with heating water. TPV systems are also too complex [...]
Posted in: Inventions, PhotoVoltaics, Waste Energy

Water into Hydrogen Fuel with Waste Energy

Syndicated — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 08:48:35 +0000

With each passing day, scientists are coming out with unique solutions to lessen our dependence on fossil fuels. They are now thinking of turning stray forms of energy such as noise or random vibrations from the environment into useful form of energy. They want to use piezoelectric effect for such purposes. Some materials produce [...]
Posted in: Hydrogen Fuel, Inventions, Waste Energy

Fuel from Chicken Feathers?

Syndicated — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 07:37:42 +0000

If we go by the stats, every year 11 billion pounds of poultry industry waste accumulates annually, because we have gigantic appetite for poultry products. They can’t be stuffed into pillows. Mostly they are utilized as low-grade animal feed. Scientists in Nevada have created a new and environmentally friendly process for developing biodiesel fuel [...]
Posted in: Biodiesel, Biofuels, Waste Energy

Waste to Energy Continues to Gain Steam

Syndicated — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:38:11 +0000

While new energy solutions are being discovered, refined and brought further and further into the public light, something that does not get a lot of headlines is waste to energy. How something like this continues to not be used in the United States is incredible as countries like Japan have been using it for [...]
Posted in: Biofuels, Industry, Waste Energy

Converting Water and CO2 into Fuel

Syndicated — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 08:03:15 +0000

Researchers are trying to duplicate the natural process of photosynthesis. If successful, we can use the “evil” carbon dioxide emitted by power plants and industrial units to good use. This way, industrial units don’t have to establish new subsidiary units for the treatment of carbon dioxide. Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed a [...]
Posted in: Future Energy, Inventions, Waste Energy

Waste Heat Could Double Battery Life on Laptops, Cell Phones

Syndicated — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 08:43:46 +0000

When we utilize any gadget or means of comfort we know that these devices consume energy. But the energy is not utilized by devices. Some of the energy is lost in the form of friction or heat. For example when we are exploiting the power of computer processor chips, car engines or electric power [...]
Posted in: Batteries, Inventions, Waste Energy

Turning Wastewater into Ethanol

Syndicated — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 08:01:31 +0000

As the world continues to search for alternative fuels to fuel our cars and heat our homes, many different opportunities are being explored and there has finally been a significant breakthrough in turning wastewater into ethanol as an automobile fuel source. Qteros and Applied Clean Tech have teamed up to create a biofuel that [...]
Posted in: Ethanol, Inventions, Waste Energy

Getting Biofuel from the World’s Garbage

Syndicated — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 08:32:40 +0000

There is plenty of garbage on this planet; in fact there is so much garbage that many developed countries are trying to dump their garbage on the lands of lesser developed countries, at a fee of course. But does dumping garbage on other places solve the problem? On the contrary it spreads pollutions and [...]
Posted in: Biofuels, Ethanol, Waste Energy

Electricity and Desalination from Wastewater

Syndicated — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 07:53:04 +0000

In most part of the world safe and clean drinking water is unavailable for daily consumption and industrial use. Currently to desalinate water two kinds of technologies are being used. First is known as reverse osmosis and the second is electro-dialysis. Both of these processes need huge amount of energy. A team of scientists [...]
Posted in: Environment, Future Energy, Waste Energy