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 ...

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 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 ...

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.

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