New material that stores sun's heat energy to generate electricity more efficiently!

A recent development would make electricity generation from the sun's heat more efficient, by using ceramic-metal plates for heat transfer at higher temperatures and at elevated pressures.
Courtesy: Purdue University illustration/Raymond Hassan.

A team at Purdue University developed a new composite material which are being used to make a concentrated plant to store sun's heat energy to generate electricity more efficiently.The video below demonstrates the process briefly.

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Single device that can collect energy from sun and outer space simultaneously.

Courtesy:Linda Cicero, Stanford News Stanford scientists has demonstrated for the first time that heat from the sun and coldness from outer space can be collected simultaneously. The above image shows the apparatus,a double-layered rooftop panel.The top layer uses the standard semiconductor materials that go into energy-harvesting solar cells, the novel materials on the bottom layer perform the cooling task. Link to the journal: Click Here

Levitate object with sound wave(Acoustic Tweezers).

Asier Marzo with Holographic Acoustic Tweezers. Courtesy: Asier Marzo,Sergio Larripa,Bruce Drinkwater Professor Bruce Drinkwater ,Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Bristol, and Dr Asier Marzo,Universidad Publica De Navarra,Spain took the sound engineering to another level.Bruce and his team developed a model of acoustic tweezers which can handle multiple object with an ease.His team programmed an array of mini speakers which can manipulate the position of objects.The advancement in the development of acoustic tweezers will let surgeons to do their job without touching the patients. For more details: Click Here

Keplar spacecraft retired!

Courtesy: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA Keplar,the space observatory by NASA, launched in 2009 to discover Earth-Sized planets orbiting other stars is no more. NASA retired this revolutionary telescope on 30th,October,2018 as it ran out of fuel.Some data related to the telescope given below. Courtesy: NASA

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