Engineers have developed a new type of hybrid solar energy converter, which uses energy from the Sun to create both electricity and steam. The device reportedly has high efficiency and runs at low ...

Wave energy, the emerging renewable resource behind wind and solar, is gaining traction as innovators advance the technology of wave-energy converter devices. For a U.S. Dept. of Energy design-build ...

If you find yourself in the Australian port city of Albany and spot a humongous yellow machine bobbing in the waves of King George Sound, don't be alarmed. It's just a generator prototype making a ...

There are reasons why wave energy is one of nature’s greatest untapped resources. The ocean is unforgiving. Salt water corrodes small parts on metal machinery. Waves can be a brutal and unpredictable ...

Jennette's Pier at Nags Head, where a prototype wave energy converter will be launched in the last two weeks of August 2022. It’s peak season at Jennette’s Pier in Nags Head. By 8 a.m., the pier is ...

For the first time in human history, a wave energy converter (or WEC) has been connected to the US energy grid. A prototype called the Azura has been installed at the US Navy's Wave Energy Test Site ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Heat energy can be converted into electricity with very high efficiency through a temperature-induced electron flow process known as thermionic emission. The basic operating ...