The state of South Australia has announced that it will create a network of thousands of solar-powered homes. Tesla was awarded a deal to install solar panels and batteries in nearly 50,000 homes over the next five years. Initial phases of the plan are already...
In order to reduce more and more our consumption of electric energy, different researchers develop new materials and process to transform physical movements into energy. For exemple, rechearch engineers have now created a twisted wire made of carbon nanotubes that produces current when stretched. Woven into clothing,...
In China and USA, researchers have developed a skin-like, biocompatible triboelectric nanogenerator that is both highly stretchable and transparent. That object, made by sandwiching a layer of ionic hydrogel (which acts as an electrode) between two elastomer films (which act as an electrification layer), converts mechanical motion into...