Category Archives: Conventional

Here, Wang holds fibers containing nanogenerators. Woven into clothing, these fibers could power devices using energy from our daily movements. Image courtesy of Gary Meek.

Using Nanotechnology to Capture the Energy Around Us

Here is an excerpt of a story that appeared on May 11, 2013 at YaleScientific.org: Their title, “Electricity from Thin Air,” is misleading since the source of energy is solar…

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Inventor Ronald Ace says his ‘Solar Traps’ will solve the world’s energy problems

Compiled by Sterling D. Allan Pure Energy Systems News I’ve had several people send me links to various versions of this story about a solar technology that is allegedly nearly…

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Graphene paint just one atom thick could power homes of the future

Darren Walker provided this report, which comes originally from Science Recorder via Monessesmontage Scientists have found a way to use thin slices of graphene to convert solar energy to direct…

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Slovenian Submergible Pump (SP) Claims to be Cheapest, Clean Alternative to Nuclear

Intro by Sterling D. Allan Pure Energy Systems News On April 21, I received an update email from Slovenian inventor, Vladimir Markovic with the following article that he submitted for…

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Phinergy’s metal-air battery yields 1000-mile EV range

Compiled by Sterling D. Allan Pure Energy Systems News Here’s a cool one in the cutting-edge conventional energy genre. A Israeli company called Phinergy (good name!) has come up with…

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GE awards leading innovators in clean energy technology

Compiled by Sterling D. Allan Pure Energy Systems News This was brought to my attention by Angelo DiPietro of Engineair, who is the first company listed in this story about…

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Bladeless Windmill from Delft

Compiled by Sterling D. Allan Pure Energy Systems News Joe Capraro brought this story from TheAtlanticCities to my attention. Even though the title of this story may seem like an April…

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How To Extract Water From Thin Air — Without Power

“T Lee Buyea Fla.News Service” brought this to my attention today, with the following intro: Everyone is going to need this when the US Dollar loses it’s last 3% of…

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Solar Rectenna by Brian Willis

Posted over at PESWiki. A U-Conn researcher has come up with special new technique using selective area atomic layer deposition (ALD) to make the tiny shapes necessary for rectenna fabrication….

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Good energy comes in small packages: Taylor Wilson at TED2013

John Nishiki also let us know about this one. http://blog.ted.com/2013/02/27/good-energy-comes-in-small-packages-taylor-wilson-at-ted2013/ QUOTING Taylor Wilson graduated from high school in May. And Popular Science has already dubbed him “The Boy who Played with Fusion” and Forbes has suggested…