Energy harvesting is the process for collecting energy from the surrounding environment and converting it to electricity.
"We have explored various methods, ranging from radio frequency energy harvesting to solar power, " he told BBC News.
The Wave Glider SV3 incorporates the latest advancements in energy harvesting technology providing the ability to utilize both wave and solar energy for forward propulsion.
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The general concept is known as energy harvesting, which simply refers to the gathering of energy from one source and applying it to power an object.
But for a solar eternal plane to be exactly that it needs an efficient energy harvesting, conversion and storage system that will work when the Sun has set.
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First, a group of scientists in the UK developed a new energy-harvesting device that attaches to the joint between the thigh and shin.
Its collectors are also suitable for building-integrated photovoltaics, such as energy-harvesting awnings or the sides of tall buildings, but market has not yet materialized at scale.
Not to be outdone, England just flipped the switch on the world's largest wind farm, and in Paris, Schneider Electric set up kinetic energy-harvesting tiles that generate power from runners in the Paris Marathon.
The UCLA Engineering team created a new type of energy-harvesting polarizer for LCDs called a polarizing organic photovoltaic, which can potentially boost the function of an LCD by working simultaneously as a polarizer, a photovoltaic device and an ambient light or sunlight photovoltaic panel.
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There are other means of harvesting ambient energy, from vibrations, movement or heat.
Nevada's first platinum-certified LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) buildings stand proudly here, constructed of recycled materials and rammed-earth walls, with passive cooling, renewable heating, reclaimed water and solar-electricity panels, all harvesting clean energy.
The UCLA engineers have created a novel concept for harvesting and recycling energy for electronic devices - one that involves equipping these devices' LCD screens with built-in photovoltaic polarizers, allowing them to convert ambient light, sunlight and their own backlight into electricity.
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Some algae cells are also easier to filter than others, reducing the energy and economic cost of "harvesting" the algae from cultures.
It is, first, an account of the many ways in which people have sought to produce energy by burning fossil fuels, harvesting the wind, brewing biodiesel and trapping the sun's heat.
Zhengrong Shi, chairman of China's solar energy giant Suntech Power and Tulsi Tanti of India's wind company Suzlon Energy have both netted billions in recent years by harvesting nature's own power sources.
The system includes a light-harvesting station, a storage station, and a thermal energy release station.
Thus the electric car is harvesting in terms of well-to-wheel miles only about 27% of the original fossil fuel energy, so not that much better than the standard car running on petrol or diesel.
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