A company is trying to prove that a 19th-century design known as the Stirling engine has a place in the emerging market for clean energy. Infinia, based in Kennewick, Wash., plans to release a ...

Researchers across the globe are already working on ways to destroy or at least redirect any killer asteroids before they slam into the Earth. But what if scientists discover that Earth is threatened ...

The invention converts the energy produced by PV cells directly into mechanical motion without the need for batteries or power electronics. Its developers claim the robustness of the solar motor can ...

The world's first solar power station was built before World War One, created by a man with a vision for cleaner air. The early 1900s was an age of coal and iron. Industry was noisy and filthy, ...

What’s the most efficient way to convert solar power to electrical power? Photovoltaic panels clock in at the mid to high ‘teens in efficiency, but the venerable Stirling engine produces over 20% ...

A BONKERS plot to move our Solar System using a giant device powered by the Sun has been cooked up by a top scientist. The “stellar engine” could be used to shift Earth trillions of miles if it were ...

POMPANO BEACH, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cyclone Power Technologies Inc. (Pink Sheets:CYPW), developer of the all-fuel, clean-tech Cyclone Engine, announced that it has delivered to Renolavia Energy SA, ...

If Jason Benkoski is right, the path to interstellar space begins in a shipping container tucked behind a laboratory in Maryland. The set up looks like something out of a low-budget sci-fi film: One ...

Normal people throw away stuff when it breaks. But not people like us. Or, apparently, [NanoRobotGeek]. A cheap robotic dragonfly died, and he cannibalized it for robot parts. But he kept the gearbox ...

The world's first solar power station was built before World War One, created by a man with a vision for cleaner air. The early 1900s was an age of coal and iron. Industry was noisy and filthy, ...