In order to cope with climate change such as global warming, power generation using renewable energy such as sunlight and wind is being promoted all over the world. Researchers believe that the newly ...

A new heat engine with no moving parts is as efficient as a steam turbine | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology The new thermal engine developed by MIT and NREL is a solar cell-like ...

A team of scientists say they have found a new way to generate electricity from capturing heat with the help of magnetic particles that were thought to have been useless in generating energy from heat ...

UC Riverside researchers have unveiled a powerful new imaging technique that exposes how cutting-edge materials used in solar panels and light sensors convert light into electricity—offering a path to ...

RIKEN physicists have found a magnetic material that converts heat into electricity with high efficiency, making it promising for use in energy-harvesting devices. The work is published in the journal ...

A team of engineers and material scientists in the Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering at CU Boulder has developed a new technology to turn thermal radiation into electricity in a way ...

Combustion engines, the engines in gas-powered cars, only use a quarter of the fuel’s potential energy while the rest is lost as heat through exhaust. Now, a study published in ACS Applied Materials & ...

Dried leaves convert small temperature differences into electricity through ion movement, offering a natural, biodegradable platform for efficient thermal energy harvesting that rivals engineered ...

An international research team has discovered that single molecules of fullerene show bi-thermoelectric properties — in other words, positive and negative thermopower. These molecules display such ...

Modern electricity meters report electricity consumption and exports separately. However, on-site consumption of PV output is invisible to the meter, and shows up as a reduction in electricity ...