Modern society would grind to a very unpleasant halt without energy … we all know that. Outside of the “usual suspects,” though — oil, coal, natural gas, nuclear, solar, wind and hydro — are there any other energy sources we [...]
Electronics today let us transmit information across networked computers pretty fast … but not necessarily fast enough to keep up with the ballooning amounts of “big data” expected with the emerging internet of things. So wouldn’t it be great, as [...]
A new Smarter Energy Research Institute aims to help energy and utility companies improve their services through faster innovation, predictive analytics and better integration of renewables into the power grid. IBM, the company behind the institute, says the organization is [...]
A combination of three automated car braking systems could save your life and cut in half the average chance of being injured in a rear-end collision, according to researchers at Virginia Tech. At 17 percent, rear-end collisions are the second-most [...]
While most people today might be smarter than the average traffic signal, we could — in the future — enjoy easier commutes and better gas mileage with the help of traffic lights using human-like “intelligence.” Using computer games and simulations, [...]
The US hopes that stronger, lighter materials can provide one way to improve the fuel efficiency of the cars and trucks on its roads. With that goal in mind, the US Department of Energy (DOE) is launching seven new projects [...]
Purpose-built, wood-burning cook stoves have been in use for hundreds of years, so could they really be made any more efficient? And even if we could improve stove design, would it make that much of a difference? The answer to [...]
By 2016, many of the little energy aggravations that inconvenience you today — a run-down cellphone battery, a laptop with dwindling reserve power — could be a thing of the past, thanks to parasite power. Researchers at IBM believe that [...]
Just as email has trumped snail-mail and online sites like Twitter have helped make print newspapers all but obsolete, a coterie of small consumer electronics is showing itself to be — in many ways — more nimble, responsive and effective [...]
The Urbee two-passenger vehicle being designed by an engineering group in Canada is being billed not only as the world’s greenest car, but the first to have its entire body printed, rather than manufactured. The body for the Urbee prototype [...]
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