Tiny Generators Produce Electricity from Ambient Vibrations

Tiny generators developed at the University of Michigan could produce enough electricity from random, ambient vibrations to power a wristwatch, pacemaker or wireless sensor. The energy-harvesting devices, created at U-M’s Engineering Research Center for Wireless Integrated Microsystems, are highly efficient at providing renewable electrical power from arbitrary, non-periodic vibrations. This type of vibration is Posted in: Future Energy , Inventions

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UCLA researchers develop low cost solution based method for creating CIGS based solar cells

Researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have developed a new way of creating CIGS (copper-indium-gallium-selinide) solar cells. This new method promised to substantially bring down the cost of producing these types of cells. While CIGS cells haven’t yet achieved the efficiency of silicon based solar cells, ultimately they

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Alternative Energy Inspires Young Scientists

In Indianapolis a number of the 1,500 young scientists competing in the International Science and Engineering Fair for $4 million dollars in prizes and scholarships pursued alternative energy innovations. Seventeen year old Allison Wilson from Stuart, Iowa, won $11,000 in scholarships by making ethanol fuel from prairie grass. Renewable energy also inspired 17 year old Brian Sutterer of Terre Haute, Indiana, who generated electricity using the difference in temperature above and below ground (geothermal energy). 2006 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair

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