Power and Electrical Engineering

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Ceramic microreactors developed for on-site hydrogen production

Applications include power supplies for small appliances and laptop computers, and on-site rechargers for battery packs used by the military. “The catalytic…

Engine on a chip promises to best the battery

It could also dramatically lighten the load for people who can't connect to a power grid, including soldiers who now must carry many pounds of batteries for a…

Researchers developing more powerful solar cells

“We have a lot of sunlight,” said Vikram Dalal as sunshine lit up a late-summer morning and the south-facing windows of his office at Iowa State University's…

MIT designs 'invisible,' floating wind turbines

Today's offshore wind turbines usually stand on towers driven deep into the ocean floor. But that arrangement works only in water depths of about 15 meters or…

Brown Engineers Build a Better Battery – With Plastic

Brown University engineers have created a new battery that uses plastic, not metal, to conduct electrical current. The hybrid device marries the power of a…

Tiny fuel cell might replace batteries in laptop computers, portable electronics

Chemists at Arizona State University in Tempe have created a tiny hydrogen-gas generator that they say can be developed into a compact fuel cell package that…

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