Engr370/Energy technologies

This is a collaborative list of energy technologies by students in Engr370 Energy, Technology and Society:

Please use the following format^[1]:

* External technology - primary source

Links

• Polycrystalline Photovoltaic - Solar
• Monocrystalline photovoltaics - solar
• Wind belt - wind
• Wind turbine - wind
• Francis turbine - water
• Pelton wheel - water
• Algal biomass - solar
• Ethanol - solar & fossil fuels
• Flywheel - storage
• Pumped water - storage
• Nuclear - atomic chain reactions from mined minerals
• Nuclear reprocessing - spent nuclear fuel
• Solar thermal - solar
• Geothermal - heat from the Earth's innards
• Cold fusion - dreams
• Biodiesel - varies, including recycled foods and biomass
• Tidal - water
• Wave - water
• Pedal/animal power - humans, hamsters, etc.
• Regenerative braking - energy re-capture
• Artificial photosynthesis - solar
• Methane - biomass, compost, animal waste, underwater vents
• Salinity Differences where rivers meet the Ocean - Have you done Chem 370? Read this. http://www.stanford.edu/group/cui_group/papers/101%20Fabio_water%20salinity.PDF Prototype Cell - http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2011/ee/c0ee00524j
• Nanoscopic Hydro (Nanohydro?) - run water through glass disk 2 centimetres in diameter that contain 450 000 circular micro-channels, each between 10 and 16 microns across, generating a current of 1500 nanoamps http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/18446
• Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) - http://www.nrel.gov/otec/ & http://www.oreg.ca/docs/ImpactTidalEnergyExtraction.pdf
• Artificial Photosynthesis - http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111219112010.htm -http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090311103646.htm - http://io9.com/5867736/artificial-photosynthesis-twice-as-efficient-as-the-real-thing (Source?)
• Zero Point Energy (ZPE) - Converting Vacuum energy of electromagnetic zero point oscillations into Classical Mechanical Energy - http://www.wbabin.net/physics/turtur1e.pdf - http://www.calphysics.org/articles/Moddel_VacExtrac.pdf - http://newenergymovement.org/Electromagnetic_Energy_GrandChallenge_v2.pdf - http://earthtech.org/publications/PRAv40_4857.pdf

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