Lost in the woods near a stream, with some empty water bottles, wire, plastic plates, and a stepper motor, *and* you need to charge your smartphone? Try this. OK, so perhaps you wouldn't ever be ...

A retired Canadian engineer has developed a river-powered water wheel that can generate up to 36 kWh per day under stable ...

When the subjects of energy efficiency or the green economy are discussed, solar and wind power dominate the discussion. But hydropower, which has been employed in Massachusetts for 300 years, tends ...

January 22 2004 – GE Energy received a contract of more than $540 000 from the Imperial Irrigation District (IID) for a hydro generator rewind project at an IID hydroelectric plant on the All American ...

Freshman teams “Sir Care-A-Lot” (Section 68, Group 3) and “Hydro-electric Generator with Water Filter” (Section 72, Group 4) won the Faculty Choice and Student Choice 2016 Freshman Awards, ...

The theory behind hydropower is very simple: water obeys gravity and imparts the gained kinetic energy onto a turbine, which subsequently drives a generator. The devil here is, of course, in all the ...

Grid stability and fast response: In order to handle spikes in demand, pumped hydro facilities can quickly ramp up to full ...

There are already plenty of gadgets that allow people to charge their mobile devices while off the grid. Most of those products utilize solar power, while a few have gone the thermoelectric route. The ...

Integrated Power Services has agreed to acquire ABB’s Canadian and US hydro generator and transformer repair businesses. No financial terms were released for the deal, which is expected to close in Q2 ...

This portable new product promises energy on the go – and we don’t mean a Power Bar. Bourne Energy’s Backpack Power Plant is a hydroelectric generator that you can strap on just like a bookbag. It can ...

Growing water demand and reduced runoff due to drought has depleted waters feeding many hydroelectric power plants around the world—sometimes causing severe power shortages, such as in Brazil and New ...

January 5, 2008 Millennium Cell Inc. and Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies have announced the completion of a pre-production version of the HydroPak portable power generator that incorporates a unique ...