Yet, new research suggests that bending ice and adding salt to it could transform this winter nuisance into a potential source of sustainable power. Xin Wen and his team at Xi’an Jiatong University in ...

Ice generates electricity as a response to stress when it bends. Experiments with pure and saline ice found that with enough ...

Can ice generate electricity? It’s not as far-fetched as you may think. Learn about the new research that “brings the vision ...

The team at Sapphire Technologies has developed equipment that generates zero-carbon electricity using natural gas pipeline pressure differentials. Sapphire CEO, Freddie Sarhan, is center-frame, sixth ...

Salt, ice and some oomph — these three simple ingredients are all that’s needed to make waste-free electricity, researchers report September 15 in Nature Materials. Straining a single cone-shaped ...

The U.S. power grid has been under enormous stress in recent years as electricity needs have gone up. The artificial ...

Water droplets falling through a tube have generated enough electricity to power 12 LED lights. Such an approach could one day be used in roof-based systems to harvest lots of clean power from rain.