After Two Years of Nuclear Crises, Japan Opens Its Biggest Solar Park

Japan has recently completed a true modern marvel. Japan become the first nation to develop a "solar island" so to speak. Solar panel covered plateau offers clean and efficient power to more than 40,000 homes in Suburban Japan. With this large public works project completed the island nation is now officially pushing for more clean use of energy rather than fossil fuels. This marks the beginning of what could be the start of a clean future for Japan and may well result in other nations taking a similar initiative to provide for clean and efficient alternative energy options to grid users.

http://gizmodo.com/after-two-years-of-nuclear-crises-japan-opens-its-bigg-1467411405

These New Graphene Supercapacitors Could Finally Power An Electric Car

Scientists in North Korea might just have invented the greatest invention since the electric car! It is the new Graphene Supercapacitor! Just one gram of this newly refined product has the equivalent surface area to a basketball! Unlike the current lithium-ion batteries commonly used by car companies in their electric vehicles these new graphing super capacitor batteries are capable of charging as little as 16 seconds! A rate that would make typical lithium ion batteries a thing of the past. With a growing market for electric cars a discovery like this not only means that the world will have more efficient electric cars, but it opens pandoras box to a world of wannabe inventors and as such we are likely only a few short years from seeing this technology being integrated into electric cars and maybe even aircraft in the future. So what does this mean for us? We might just have found our way to a completely fossil fuel-free future.

http://gizmodo.com/these-new-graphene-supercapacitors-could-finally-power-1463259679

Playing loud pop music boosts output of solar panels by 40%

According to new research playing pop music as low as 75 dB has been shown to amazingly increase the performance of solar panels by up to 40%. In the study in which both pop music as well as classical music was played in the presence of the series of electronically measured solar panels it was determined that pop music with its higher pitch sounds help the better stimulate the solar panels photovoltaic cells and produce electricity more effectively.

http://www.enn.com/energy/article/46645