With soaring gas prices, imagine driving a car that uses plastic as fuel. Or powering your home with a similar generator. Merced inventor Daniel Caris says that could one day become possible with the ...

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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 ...

With an ability to turn friction into small amounts of electricity, triboelectric generators may one day be used in clothes that turn movement into power, in battery-free brain implants, and a host of ...

Student researchers at Northeastern University have designed an apparatus to convert plastic waste into clean energy without releasing harmful emissions. Take plastic waste and burn it at super-heated ...