Turning human waste into renewable energy is an innovative approach to sustainability. This carbon-neutral resource can be converted into energy, serving as an alternative to coal while aiding in ...

SEATTLE (AP) – These aren’t your typical loos. One uses microwave energy to transform human waste into electricity. Another captures urine and uses it for flushing. And still another turns excrement ...

A research team from Stanford University has developed a prototype that uses solar energy to extract nutrients from human urine to create a sustainable fertilizer. They presented the system in ...

Remember in Back to the Future where Doc rummages through Marty’s garbage for “fuel”? He dumps it in to a home energy reactor called “Mr. Fusion” mounted to the back of the famous time traveling ...

A new thermogalvanic device uses nanoparticles to control ion flow, allowing it to convert waste heat to electricity and store the energy without external batteries. (Nanowerk Spotlight) Heat is ...

Until recently, most of the world's energy supplies have come from coal, oil and gas. Scarcity of natural resources, surging energy prices and global warming had focused attention on renewable energy, ...

It may sound like the stuff of sci-fi movies, but diverting food waste from the landfill and converting it into electricity has become a real thing. William Brangham visited Ben & Jerry’s Vermont ice ...