If you thought combustion engines, like the one used in your vehicle, was mature enough, the new research would force you to believe that you were so wrong. A startup based in CA called Transonic Combustion has developed a fuel-injection system it says can improve the efficiency of gasoline engines by more than 50 percent. What this means practically is that a vehicle equipped with the technology gets 64 miles per gallon in highway driving, which is in fact far better than so-called Read further »

We need “Energy revolutions“, I keep on stressing on the same point like Bill Gates did. In a world where all our natural resources are depleting and alarming rates, we welcome every small step that can contribute. As per stats from NationMaster, US alone uses 20.6 Million barrels of fuel everyday, followed by china at 7.5 Million and India ranking 5th at 2.7Million. Even when burnt efficiently, this much fuel leads to 10,000s of tonnes of harmful gases/smoke to the environment. We need to bring it down to zero,  Read further »

Google’s Power, Energy initiatives are taking shape. Today, Google announces Google PowerMeter API on code.google.com, for developers to integrate various products with Google PowerMeter. PowerMeter provides a great interface to monitor, track, analyze, and optimize power usage. Now manufacturers can integrate various appliances to enable Read further »

Bill Gates pointed it out at TED, that we need revolution in Energy, batteries more than anything else. He talked about building advanced Zero emission Nuclear reactors that would feed on today’s Uranium waste to power the world for decades. Google with it’s Google Energy, is trying a similar approach. Update: BloomEnergy is now Live, details at the end The future is all about generating your own cheap electricity in greener ways, and a US startup Read further »

Going Green is always good, as long as you find new sources of energy. In Early school education, we were taught that a lemon with brass, copper plates can generate 0.3 volts. And more intuitively, we’ve seen DIY iPhone Solar charger, but Oranges charging Apple iPhones? Wooah.. needs alot of patience, after all How many Oranges does it take to charge an Apple? It may not be as good as innovative Read further »

Mobile companies, and other industries are prototyping new concepts that can encourage Green computing. One such idea was Mechanical phone that needed no charger. A new Prototype from Nokia is kind of a strange innovation. Charging the phone is as easy as pouring Coke, the popular beverage, into the phone. Under the hood, it generates energy from sugar, making it possible to manufacture Green phones that virtually are non-polluting. This concept phone Read further »

We may have been to Moon and back, but we still use those pencil size AA batteries which have poor life and are large in size. Cost of manufacture of these batteries is estimated to be several billion $s every year, and the environment pollution caused is almost irreversible. To counter this problem, conducting polymers have long been thought to be a solution in developing lightweight, flexible, nonmetal batteries. But up until now, these polymers have had been impractical because regular paper can’t hold enough of them work effectively. Thanks to the new research by ppsala researcher Maria Stromme and her team surrounding the use of Read further »

Going green in Technology is in-vogue. We’ve seen a numerous number of efforts to save power, and reduce co2 emission. Here comes another one and unique of it’s kind. Hitachi has come up with a  face-recognizing television that intends to save power, whenever you are not watching it. The prototype consists of a camera that looks for a face in front of it and whenever you glance away, a power-saving mode like shutting off display or reducing LCD brightness comes into picture. Though this demo features a text instead of actually saving power, but the actual Read further »

I read an article in the U.K.’s Daily Mail, which talked about a Strange new discovery coming from a teenager from Nepal. The News Claims that a boy had managed to create a working Solar Panel without actually using any silicon semiconductors (the basic ingredient of SolarPanel). Instead, he used the the thing that is available for free –Human Hair. He claims that he was able to achieve 9v, 18W solar panel. The silicon semiconductor is what that makes the price go high, and hence difficult for developing countries to adopt. ‘I’m trying to produce Read further »

AMD has introduced a 40W six-core Opteron processor. The overhauled chip offers 31 percent higher performance-per-watt over a standard quad-core Opteron. According to AMD spokesperon Brent Kerby, companies that require low power processors often deploy dense, Greener Tech., large-scale IT projects where system energy trumps raw performance and every watt of saved power has a “significant” impact on the bottom line. What’s New ? It’s Greener – The 40-watt 6-core Opteron delivers the same processing capacity with about 30% less power consumption. Leaner – Read further »