Off Grid Energy Independence

Funding for utility-scale energy storage technology

Energy Vault has completed a $110 million Series B funding round. The investment for the round was made by SoftBank Vision Fund (Vision Fund) in its first investment in energy storage technology.

Europe has the untapped onshore capacity to meet global energy demand

In an analysis of all suitable sites for onshore wind farms, the new study reveals that Europe has the potential to supply enough energy for the whole world until 2050.

Solar powered furniture for smart cities

The next generation in smart, sustainable and solar powered urban furniture

$7.5 billion 'smart mini-city' to be built in Las Vegas

This $7.5 billion, six year project, will be constructed of net-zero buildings within their own insular mini-city, featuring automated multi-functional designs, renewable energies from solar/wind/water/kinetic, autonomous vehicles, artificial intelligence, augmented reality, Internet of Things (IoT), robotics, supertrees, and self-healing concrete structures.

Used car batteries could power farms in the developing world

As part of a Circular Economy for electric vehicle battery systems, as the number of such vehicles increases rapidly, the need to find the best way to reuse and recycle vehicle batteries becomes just as intense.

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Publication: Magnetic plucking of piezoelectric bimorphs for a wearable energy harvester (2016)

Smart Materials and Structures.

Publication: Max-min Fair Rate Allocation and Routing in Energy Harvesting Networks: Algorithmic Analysis (2014)

ACM MobiHoc'14.

Publication: Screen printed piezoelectric films for energy harvesting (2013)

Advances in Applied Ceramics.

Publication: Magnetic tuning of a kinetic energy harvester using variable reluctance (2013)

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Publication: Vibration energy harvesting using the Halbach array (2012)

Smart Materials and Structures.

Publication: General model with experimental validation of electrical resonant frequency tuning of electromagnetic vibration energy harvesters (2012)

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Publication: A credit card sized self powered smart sensor node (2011)

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Publication: A novel miniature airflow energy harvester for wireless sensing applications in buildings (2013)

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Publication: Increasing output power of electromagnetic vibration energy harvesters using improved Halbach arrays (0)

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