Mazumder and colleagues hope the self cleaning technology could play an important role in increasing the efficiency and reducing maintenance costs of generating electricity from sunlight.
Iran says it is enriching uranium solely for the peaceful civilian purpose of generating electricity.
Iran is at loggerheads with major powers over its nuclear program, which it says is peaceful and intended solely for generating electricity.
Physicists are studying new ways of generating electricity with less damage to the environment. In the meantime, many power plants are being modernized to give off less polluting material.
If we had solar roads absorbing sunlight and generating electricity, they could transmit it to battery-powered cars as they drive along at highway speeds.
The resulting series of short, rapid movements is more suitable for generating electricity than a slow, smooth movement.
"Obviously, this is a roundabout way of generating electricity instead of converting wind or water flow energy directly into electricity using stationary windmills or hydroturbines, " Platzer says.
This process emits a lot of heat energy, which produces steam, and that steam turns a turbine, generating electricity.
As many as four-fifths of all the cells in the electric eel's body are specialized for generating electricity, and the strength of the shock it can deliver corresponds roughly to length of its body.
This means that Southern Company has a good idea, in advance, of how much money it will earn from generating electricity.
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