There are two main types of electrical current that flow through your home: Alternating and direct. The vast majority of devices around you are powered by alternating current. By allowing electrons to ...

A new device captures the energy of individual raindrops and converts it into direct current electricity, offering a compact solution for powering small devices. (Nanowerk Spotlight) Raindrops, ...

The battery as we know it today was an invention of Italian chemist and physicist Alessandro Volta. He witnessed electricity splitting water into its constituent elements of oxygen and hydrogen and ...

Naval Postgraduate School Associate Professor Dr. Di Zhang led a team of NPS students to create and successfully test a circuit breaker that could support large electric platforms running on direct ...

Using nanometer-scale components, researchers have demonstrated the first optical rectenna, a device that combines the functions of an antenna and a rectifier diode to convert light directly into ...

This is where the essential part of a residential solar system comes into play: a solar inverter. A solar inverter takes the electricity your solar panels make and turns it into electricity the ...

DALLAS, May 14, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Jacobs (NYSE: J) was selected as the Integrated Delivery Partner for Marinus Link, an approximately 214 mile (345-kilometer) undersea and underground high-voltage ...