Revmodo | Sustainability & Technology
CLEAN TECH
Corporations everywhere appear to be eagerly embracing solar energy as a compliment to their traditional energy sources. From Apple to Wal-Mart to IKEA and General Motors, solar arrays are being built atop buildings and opposite plants and offices. Automaker Volkswagen has become the latest to pursue the latter, with the […]
Editor’s note: “Storing That Power” is a seven-part series detailing technologies capable of reserving power obtained from renewable sources. Read each week to learn more about pumped hydroelectric, industrial-scale batteries, flow batteries, flywheels, compressed air energy storage, gravel batteries and molten salt. Batteries are the first thing most people think […]
There aren’t too many U.S. cities that enjoy more annual sunshine than San Diego. With all that bright, shiny weather, it’s no wonder the San Diego Zoo recently announced a project that will encourage visitors to drive electric vehicles instead of gas guzzlers. In collaboration with Smart City San Diego, the […]
Suffering from a glut of wind-generated electricity, Germany has turned to an international power company to prevent this extra energy from going to waste. Too much clean energy is a hard concept for Americans to fathom, but with over 21,000 wind turbines (as of 2011) Germans are scrambling to use […]
We don’t have to look back too far to understand the power that technology has had in shaping our world. Within a generation we’ve seen space stations built, computing speeds quicken exponentially, and the internet boom. In fact, technological advances now happen so rapidly that our current way of life […]
The mass adoption of electric vehicles could be good for local retailers, as EV owners may be spendng more time shopping than their petroleum-burning counterparts. Research being done by EV charger manufacturer ECOtality is showing that owners of electric vehicles spend considerably more time in stores when they are able […]
The mass adoption of electric vehicles could be good for local retailers, as EV owners may be spendng more time shopping than their petroleum-burning counterparts. Research being done by EV charger manufacturer ECOtality is showing that owners of electric vehicles spend considerably more time in stores when they are able […]
Despite explosive growth, wind energy is still a fledgling industry compared to coal or oil. Although advances in efficiency are announced with increasing frequency, one of the biggest challenges is finding a way to make wind cost competitive with fossil fuels. A new technology from Tunisia-based Saphon Energy could be key […]
In the United States alone, billions of gallons of water flow down the drain to a wastewater treatment plant every day. Approximately 2.5 percent of this water is treated and reclaimed to meet non-potable water needs, such as irrigation of golf courses and public parks. While this treatment is important […]
Researchers at MIT have developed a prototype all-carbon solar photovoltaic cell that produces electricity using near-infrared light. Typical silicon-based solar PV cells are only effective within the spectrum of visible light, leaving about 40 percent of the solar energy hitting the Earth essentially untapped. Creating the first all-carbon solar cell […]