Massachusetts researchers have found a new method for capturing solar energy. They're using heat from asphalt and other paved surfaces to produce electricity. Through asphalt, 'the researchers are ...

From the neat new things department: An emerging startup called Pavegen has just installed squares of energy-generating pavement in London. Usually, when you think of converting kinetic energy into ...

An engineering professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio is working on a project to convert the heat in hot pavements into usable energy. Samer Dessouky, who teaches civil engineering at the ...

A Hungarian tech company is turning plastic waste into solar-absorbing pavements, powering buildings and charging electronic devices. BUDAPEST (Reuters) - A Hungarian tech company is turning plastic ...

PARIS—On April 7, 2013, Kenya’s Peter Some won the 37th Paris Marathon with a time of 2:05:38. A surprise winner, Some missed the event record by only 27 seconds, thus depriving him of a place in ...

Recent advances in energy harvesting technologies for pavement systems have paved the way for sustainable solutions that can transform roadways into distributed power sources. Innovations primarily ...

Any one point on a busy street can receive up to 50,000 steps a day, so imagine if you could take all that foot traffic and turn it into something useful – like energy! A new product designed by ...

It's not your usual way to charge a mobile phone. But a clever new bouncy pavement in Telford is generating enough electricity from people's footsteps to power two nearby public charging points.