Cable Guy & Ford Unravel The Mystery Of Super-Duper Fast Electric Vehicle Charging, And It’s…
A top researcher at Purdue has hooked up with Ford to crank the electric vehicle market into overdrive with new super fast charging cable.
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Exploring Eagle Hearing & Vision Capabilities To Reduce Risk At Wind Farms
University researchers examine eagle physiology to inform and improve eagle deterrents
Drones Can Speed Up Traffic Accident Analysis To Make Driving Safer
Researchers at Purdue University say that using drones to conduct traffic accident investigations could reduce the time to complete the process dramatically and reduce deaths and injuries from secondary accidents caused by traffic slowdowns and blockages.
Chicago’s Clean Energy Challenge Revs Startups With $1 Million
The Clean Energy Trust held its Clean Energy Challenge yesterday at Venue SIX10 on South Michigan in Chicago. The meeting and awards culminated six months of intense work. The trust, widely known as a launchpad for cutting-edge clean energy projects, funds innovation by helping to launch, fund, and grow excellent clean tech startups … [continued]
Methane Emissions Questions Gas Being ‘Bridge’ Fuel
Originally published on Climate Central. By Bobby Magill Natural gas as a means to produce electricity is being hailed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as the fuel that can act as a “bridge” between carbon-heavy coal and zero-carbon renewables, helping to reduce humans’ impact on the climate. The idea is that burning … [continued]
Flexible Solar Cells, Transistors, & Displays May Get Boost From Transparent Electrode
Flexible solar cells are certainly fun. New research from Purdue University may give them a boost. Here’s the news: WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Researchers have created a new type of transparent electrode that might find uses in solar cells, flexible displays for computers and consumer electronics and future “optoelectronic” circuits … [continued]
Reducing Wasted Energy with Nanocrystal-Coated Fibers
Sooooo much energy is wasted by technology these days, and a ton of it is wasted in the form of heat (a whopping 58% in the U.S.). The good news is, that means there’s a lot of potential to tap/capture that wasted energy and use it for better purposes. … [continued]
Where Your Smartphone Energy Goes…
New research out of Purdue University shows how free smartphone apps suck energy out of your phone. In summary, they spend 65-75% of their energy on “ad modules” — “tracking the user’s geographical location, sending information about the user to advertisers and downloading ads.” Well, as someone in the internet … [continued]
New Solar, Wind, Wave, EV, & LED Projects (10 Stories)
I go through dozens of sources and thousands of articles so you don’t have to 😀 Here’s some cool clean energy, EV, and LED project news from the past week or so: 1. 3 New Wind Projects in U.S. Order Wind Turbines “Vestas has received a 59 MW order from … [continued]
Humans Won't Survive on Half of Earth by 2300
Average global temperatures, that have been rising for a century already, due to anthropogenic climate change, won’t suddenly stop rising in 2100, say Australian and US scientists in a study just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Up to half of the planet would become uninhabitable … [continued]
