Hybrid
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Scientists in Japan have created hybrid plant-animal cells, essentially making animal cells that can gain energy from sunlight like plants. The breakthrough could have major benefits for growing organs and tissues for transplant, or lab-grown meat.
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Venice's water taxis are all equipped with diesel engines that spew exhaust and make a racket, creating both air and noise pollution. With this situation in mind, engineers are developing hybrid engines that could be swapped in.
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Journalist Pierce Hoover and his 13-year old son are crossing the U.S. in a home-built pedelec vehicle, determined to use no more power in a day than would be used by leaving an electric light bulb switched on.
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Seiko's hybrid clocks run on battery and solar power
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Researchers in the U.S. believe the secret to cooling the electronics in a hybrid engine may lie in understanding precisely how fluid boils in tiny ‘microchannels’.
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Urban Green Energy solar/wind street lighting solution - good for the environment, kind on the eyes.
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Promising significant fuel and emissions savings, GE's Evolution Hybrid locomotive captures and stores the energy generated by braking a 207 ton train and delivers it back to the propulsion system in the form of an on-demand, 2000 horsepower boost.