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SpaceX has developed an expandable activity module prototype that is slated to be attached to the International Space Station. The mini-module, called a BEAM will remain there, attached to the Tranquility module, for two years....
Conveyor belts have been in use dating back to the 17th century. From farming to food production, the late 19th century has seen development of many simple mining conveyors....
Researchers at Binghamton University connected nine identical bio-solar cells into bio-solar panels that can produce clean energy. Continuous electricity could be produced from the panels and it could become the permanent power source for wireless sensors, wireless telemetry systems and control systems at remote sites where frequent replacement of battery is impractical...
The largest solar-powered computer in the world, named as Watly 3.0, is a water purifier, provides internet and electricity. It was invented by Italian entrepreneur, Marco Attisani...
At GE Aviations test operation center in Peebles, Ohio, the world's largest commercial aircraft engine has been fired up for the first time. Engine has been started for data gathering on the engine's aerodynamic performance, aero-thermal system and mechanical verification for flight testing and certification before it is made available for commercial usage...
World’s biggest gas turbine can power an entire city – 400,000 homes. At full capacity it generates 397 mega watt output. GE’s 9HA gas turbine is one of the biggest and most powerful machines ever built and one of its kinds in the world...
An Australian company PumpMakers has launched a single solar pump system that could provide up to one thousand people a day with clean drinking water...
In the city Nancy, France, engineers of GE’s Power Conversion have designed an innovative 6 MW generator, one of the largest ever built, provisioned with a permanent magnet rotor...
Chinese engineeres with the help of a group of Danish architects are making the largest waste-to-energy power plant in the world. The huge incinerator will eliminate more than 5,000 tons of waste daily..
A Chinese company Xinjiang SunOasis is building the largest solar farm in the world. One of the first big solar power plant in Pakistan that took only three months to install a 100 MW, 400k-panel pilot power project....
A device hailed as ‘Holy Grail' of energy could realize the dream of creating limitless supplies of power. The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor will be the world's largest tokamak nuclear fusion reactor once it’s ready by 2020...
LUX – one of the largest underground xenon dark matter experiment, approximately hundred times more sensitive to dark matter than its predecessor, operates from the underground Sanford Research Facility located in the hills of South Dakota....
China will relocate more than 9,000 people before the opening of the world’s largest radio telescope later this year – a move that Beijing hopes will boost the global hunt for aliens’ life. Once completed, the telescope will be used to reflect radio signals from distant parts of the universe...
A team of MIT scientists have discovered that small amounts of carbon nanotubes if added to metals makes them much more resistant to radiation damage...
Originally developed as a part of US army project which was abandoned in 2012 and later adopted by a British company that is now converting the aircraft and making a cross between an airship and an airplane for civilian use....
The software giant, Microsoft recently did a trial of a prototype underwater data center to keep the servers cool and to evaluate if it can slash the cost of cooling and also bringing the data center close to where users live. The ocean water would serve as a natural refrigerator for the data center....
The world’s first radio design has been developed by Cambridge Consultants in conjunction with Ocado. It will transform its warehouse automation solution, that means Ocado can control and manage the movement of 1,000 machines in real-time and in parallel, significantly enhancing warehouse efficiency....
NASA has funded a spacecraft engine design of spaceflight propulsion system to be built around a tabletop-sized thruster. Also known as X3 thruster that professor Alec Gallimore and his team has been building from quite some time.....
The French government wants to pave 1,000 Km (621 miles) of road with solar panels over the next five years. French infrastructure company Colas will start trial in spring. They have developed photovoltaic road surface, also known as Wattway to be used in the trials.....
A Japanese firm, Spread, is building the world's first farm run by robots. The facility, the Kameoka Plant farm uses human labor and produces 21,000 heads of lettuce each day, and it plans to increase output to 30,000 heads using robots by 2017.....
A team of researchers at Sandia National Laboratories in U.S. has an ambitious plan to transform the offshore wind energy industry with a revolutionary new wind turbine. Funded by USA Department of Energy, they are developing 200 meter blades for 50 MW offshore turbines.....
Researchers at Wyss, at Harward University and Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a fourth dimension (4D), time technology by evolving their microscale 3-D printing technology.....
Dutch student team of the University of Technology Eindhoven, Netherlands are building the world’s first car that uses formic acid, which is produced in nature by ants and other insects as hydrogen source to power car's electric motor......
Solar power company Kyocera TCL Solar and its partner company Century Tokyo Leasing Corporation have begun constructing the world’s largest floating solar plant, in Chiba, near Tokyo.....
Hydrostor, a Canadian start-up, located in Toronto, is planning to introduce the first ever commercially available compressed air energy storage system, which will operate underwater....
In quest of Alien’s life, Nasa's telescope - 'time machine' will be able to see deep inside our galaxy upto 200 million years after the Big Bang....
Scotrenewables Tidal Power (SRTP) has demonstrated the most powerful and largest tidal turbine in the world...
A semiconductor laser that works at terahertz frequencies has been developed at UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science.....
The Italian National Institute of Astrophysics has constructed Cherenkov-radiation telescope near Mount Etna that can provide pictures deep inside of the mountain....
Rocket Lab has developed the Rutherford engine, a small satellite launcher, the Electron launch system would use battery-powered turbomachinery and it is the world’s first battery-operated rocket. It is designed to transform the global space industry with low cost per mission and high frequency launches of small satellites...
A floating solar plant technology, one of its first kinds has become a reality in Australia. Infratech Industries, an Australia-based company has sold its technology to Holtville city located in California. Now, they plan to make the first export of the renewable energy system over water....
Constructed by Dutch company Revatu Customs, the Black Pearl, the two wheeler vehicle is powered by a steam engine and it’s a fully functional motorcycle.Van Tuilowner of Revatu Customs built an unique two wheeler whose locomotive inspiration is obvious from every angle....
Breakthrough in fusion power is round the corner that can be a limitless source of energy. A secretive firm Tri Alpha Energy has developed a reactor that can hold plasma at 10 million °C for 5 milliseconds. The researchers are trying to achieve 3 billion °C, the temperature at which fusion reaction takes place, which is hotter than the surface of the sun...
A team of researchers at Linkoping University in Sweden have managed to create 'Electronic Plants' that can grow conductive wires inside themselves to form living machines....
A team of researchers at NASA have tested a device that produces thrust by using electricity, and nothing else. The device is also known as quantum vacuum plasma thrusters or microwave thrusters....
“The lightest metal” ever, which is 99.9 percent air, and developed by Boeing. Microlattice is the name of the material that appears solid from the outside, but it’s an open cellular structure similar to honeycombs inside, which makes it very durable and light-weight....
Stationary hybrid bicycle, a new invention by Indian-American businessman Manoj Bhargava could generate power for 24 hours with just one hour of pedaling. He is the owner and founder of 5-hour ENERGY. The bicycle can generate enough power that can suffice to run lights, fans as well as for charging mobile phones...
Flow batteries’, mostly used in large industries could be the future of renewable energy—but this is only possible when such devices can store large amounts of energy cheaply and keep getting energy for the grid when the winds are calm and sun isn't shining.....
Space debris is becoming a bigger problem for spacecrafts. The Earth’s orbit is full of hazardous space debris that is only expected to grow worse over time and could result in more collisions among satellites and spacecrafts....
China has been testing world's largest radio telescope and it’s in final stages. It’s now being put through its paces with a dry run. The project cost is around £124 MILLION. The huge machine measures 500 m in diameter and is being built in Guizhou Province, a huge karst valley in Pingtang County, China....
Additive manufacturing is a process of making components layer by layer from powered materials. Initially, the technology was used to produce prototype parts, but now it is being used to build in-flight production components for aircrafts...
ABB Group (ABB) has developed a two-stage turbo charging technology that will help achieve six figure savings on fuel annually. Power2 800-M turbocharging is being used on Wartsila 31 marine engine that has broken Guinness World Record for efficiency in a four-stroke diesel engine. ...
Tesla is developing an innovative electric motor that could last for 1,000,000 miles. They have enhanced their drive unit endurance from being approximately 200,000 miles to being a million miles. The objective is to design drive units that just never wear out. ...
CPL, the first ever circularly polarized light detector planted on a silicon chip was developed by a team of engineers at Vanderbilt University in collaboration with researchers at Ohio University. The invention is an important milestone that can be used in surveillance, quantum computing, drug screening and many other applications...
Eco Speed e-bike is a bike from the future developed by Canyon. The design is stylish and it contains an electric motor that is powered by a hydrogen fuel-cell....
Chinese and US research teams have collaborated together and released some surprising facts on the future of magnetic confinement fusion. The scientists were able to lower the distance between the wall of the chamber and the plasma to achieve high threshold of ignition for fusion reaction.....
Making furniture is going to be innovative as designers are increasingly branching out beyond traditional materials and techniques. The British designer Paul Cocksedge has been working with different metals that will eliminate the need for welding....
Scientist in France have created a Plasma Engine prototype, a wall less hall thruster, which uses 45,000 mps stream of plasma to power spacecrafts deep into the space...
A team from Monash University has created the world's first 3D printed jet engine. The models are on display at the International Air Show in Avalon and at the headquarters of Microturbo, in Toulouse...
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The biggest problem with solar power is the inability to compete with natural gas during peak demand at night time. But, it looks like scientists are making good progress to resolve this issue....
Sunstate Cement Ltd, a leading cement manufacturer has enhanced its mill reliability and improved production by using FAG SmartCheck vibration monitoring technology, which predicts and avoid costly breakdowns and maintenance shutdowns....
Suzlon, the world’s fifth largest wind turbine maker will participate in building a 100.8MW wind project in Andhra Pradesh, India for an independent power producer Orange Renewable...
Scientists are getting ready to switch on one of the world’s largest fusion reactor. Wendelstein 7-X, the reactor can contain super hot plasma for more than 30 minutes at a time...
When it comes to manufacturing electrical motors, generator sets, AC and DC stock motors and control solutions, two companies stand tall above the rest ...
ABB is the number one power and technology group in the world. Just recently they had the winning bid for a cable system that will give power to the Johan Sverdrup offshore fields of oil.
Catalina Island is a beautiful island positioned about twenty-two miles off of Southern California’s coastline. The small island has a modest population of around 4,000, but during the hot summer months (and warm winter months) thousands of tourists flock to the island in search of peace and tranquility.
Flexico has always led the industry in trackers. Their most recent model, the PT Pro, is revolutionary due to its pivot and tilt technology, which was patented by Flexico.
The new generation of WEG contactors was designed to improve upon the already superior product WEG has on the market.
Red Lion Controls has been awarded the number one provider in panel meters by consumers. What makes this accomplishment even more significant is that it marks the 15th straight year that Red Lion was voted, by consumers, as the top brand provided on the market.
SafetyLit Foundation is an organization that is dedicated to saving lives and reducing injuries worldwide by providing an online, interactive, web-enabled review and summary of all articles relevant to injury prevention and safety promotion from journals all over the world.
Bearings specialist Schaeffler Australia has launched FAG split spherical roller bearings that reduces maintenance and downtime by 50 percent.
Dixon Quick Coupling recently broke ground on the 70,000 square foot expansion of their Gastonia Technology Park facility in North Carolina.
During semi-automated heat staking of assemblies for domestic white goods, manufacturers use light curtains to preserve operator safety without compromising production throughput.
TB Wood’s new Sure-Flex® Plus elastomeric sleeves provide higher performance and enhanced durability due to significant recent improvements in its proprietary EPDM and Neoprene materials.
Members of our Westville team, led by Jim Riffel, Plant Manager and Charles Olson, Engineering Manager, have been working closely with the Farmington High School to establish a FIRST Robotics team.
