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ULASSON, the UV “everything-cleaner”
Unveiled on kickstarter, the Chinese prototype ensures over 99 percent cleanliness through a powerful and environmentally friendly system.
Giovanni Sapere
Electricity
Construction
Reducing CO2 by working on cement production
Discovering the Cleanker experimental project to cut CO2 emissions by producing new energy in the process.
Giovanni Sapere
Environment
The Pentagon has launched a solar panel that produces and sends energy from space
PRAM is the prototype of a solar panel that is launched into orbit to produce electricity by exploiting the blue waves present in space
Giovanni Sapere
Electricity
The t-shirt that produces energy: ‘can power a smartwatch’
U.S. researchers have developed a “microgrid” that is inserted inside a t-shirt and uses body energy to produce enough electricity for a smartwatch
Giovanni Sapere
Eureka!
The chip to recharge your smartphone with hot water
A team at the China Academy of Launch Veichle Technology is testing a chip that turns the heat of hot water into electricity to recharge smartphones or other small devices
Giovanni Sapere
Electricity
Bentu: the first portable wind turbine “as light as the wind”
Bentu is the first portable wind turbine: it is little more than 1 meter high but it can generate the energy needed to charge 40 smartphones at the same time
Giovanni Sapere
Electricity
In Sicily will rise the largest floating wind farm in the world
Off the coast of Sicily, will be built the largest floating wind farm in the world: 190 turbines will be anchored for a total of 2900 megawatts installed
Giovanni Sapere
Electricity
Lybra the platform to produce electricity from traffic
The Italian company 20energy has developed Lybra, a platform that allows to produce electricity by exploiting traffic and the passage of cars.
Giovanni Sapere
Motors
Flying car? In Japan is for sale at half a million dollars
The Japanese company SkyDrive will launch (by 2023) the first flying car model at the price of half a million dollars: it will be single-seater and powered by electricity.
Giovanni Sapere
Environment
Energy Vault will store solar and wind energy in its towers thanks to gravity
The start-up company is developing a new method of electricity storage that will drastically increase the efficiency of wind or solar power plants Energy from renewable sources represents an increasing percentage of total electricity production. The main problem is the accumulation of excess…
Mario Vincenzo La Rocca
Electricity
The first patent to recycle electric car batteries is Italian
COBAT and CNR have filed a patent for an innovative technology that will enable the recycling of lithium-ion batteries in electric cars at sustainable costs.
Giovanni Sapere
Environment
The Pipe: Combating drought by making sea water drinkable
Khalili Engineers has created “The Pipe”, a floating structure powered by solar panels capable of making sea water drinkable: it transforms 4.5 billion litres a year.
Giovanni Sapere
Mechanical Engineering
Innovation in the truck industry is possible. The Thai example
The public electrical infrastructure sector uses trucks and a machine to handle weights with the use of rope and chain. In this regard, the Thai Provincial Electricity Authority has implemented a triple winch that can be transported on a standard 6-tonne truck. This saves time, effort and the cost…
Electricity
Electricity from the sun and the waves-the planting of the future
Inertial Sea Wave energy Converter (ISWEC), this is the name of the innovative system, able to transform the energy produced by the waves into electricity, which can also adapt to the different maritime weather conditions, for Ensure the continuity of energy production.
Letizia Giugliano
Eureka!
Alessandro Volta-The stack
The time stack consists of the chemical reaction generated by a series of alternating zinc and silver (or copper and tin) discs, separated by paper or a cloth soaked in salted water. An electrical wire connected to the two ends allowed the electric current to be drawn.
Giovanni Sapere