Environmentalists would have you believe that leaving the faucet running while you brush your teeth puts an unnecessary drain on the environment. We always disagreed, and if Jin Woo Han's concept Mini ...

Scientists in Australia have proposed to use a a propeller pico-hydropower turbine to recover the energy used for pumping water in a solar-powered commercial building. They have found that the mini ...

Whether the laws of physics would allow something like this to happen, I do not know, but Jin Woo Han’s faucet dynamo concept for powering small electric devices with water power is a neat idea. Even ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. A startup business that places small ...

Electricity is sold to the main grid or, less often, used privately. Unlike its big brother hydroelectric plants, mini hydro does not involve huge water storage behind dams, just a turbine turned by ...

Mini hydro plants could be the answer to a lack of power in rural Africa, especially as larger power projects are put on hold because of limited cash and abundant red tape, industry officials say.

A startup business that places small turbines in irrigation canals to generate electricity has raised $18.4 million to scale up its technology for carbon-free hydropower. Emily Morris, CEO and founder ...

A startup business that places small turbines in irrigation canals to generate electricity has raised $18.4 million to scale up its technology for carbon-free hydropower. The new investment will go to ...