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• New Type of Red Phosphor Makes LEDs More Efficient

  

  The newly developed phosphor enhances the quality of color rendition by white-emitting LEDs. (Credit:: Professor Wolfgang Schnick / LMU Munich)Chemists at the... Read more

  Posted on 24 June 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Project to Study Energy Consumption in Video Networks

  

  (Credit: Flickr @ Sam_Catch https://www.flickr.com/photos/samcatchesides/)Researchers at the Blekinge Institute of Technology (Sweden) have received funding... Read more

  Posted on 24 June 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Concentrating Solar Power Can Meet Up to 80% of Electricity Demand

  

  PNNL’s concentrating solar power system for natural gas power plants, installed on a mirrored parabolic dish. (Courtesy of Pacific Northwest National... Read more

  Posted on 24 June 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Go Kin Backpack Generates Electricity From Walking

  

  Testing the Go Kin backpack prototype. (Credit: Go Kin)Queen’s University researcher Qingguo Li (Mechanical and Materials Engineering) and Ph.D. Read more

  Posted on 23 June 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• U.S. Has Sufficient Resources to Meet Summer’s Peak Electricity Demand

  

  Reserves margin estimates and targets by NERC region, summer 2014. (Source: North American Electric Reliability Corporation, 2014 Summer Reliability Assessment). Read more

  Posted on 23 June 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Pyramid-Like Arrangement Makes LEDs Brighter

  

  Triangles and pyramids are a key to making phosphorescent organic LEDs more efficient. (Credit: Joseph Xu / Michigan Engineering Communications ... Read more

  Posted on 23 June 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Harley-Davidson Announces Its First Electric Motorcycle

  

  Harley-Davidson Project LiveWire electric bike. (Credit: Harley-Davidson)Last week, Harley-Davidson revealed Project LiveWire—the first Harley-Davidson... Read more

  Posted on 23 June 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• 6/20/2014 This Week in Energy: Beyond Headlines

  

  Here’s a bit of energy news that didn’t make it into our daily coverage during the past week. In this review, we collected some of less big, but nonetheless... Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Chemical Process Helps Sunlight Reach Solar Cells

  

  (Credit: Flickr @ James Bowe https://www.flickr.com/photos/jamesrbowe/)Researchers at the Rice University have created a new chemical process for making... Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• New Way to Make Nanoparticles Can Help Solar Cell Manufacturers

  

  Sandia National Laboratories researchers Dale Huber, left, and Todd Monson have come up with an inexpensive way to synthesize titanium-dioxide nanoparticles,... Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Scientists Create Photoelectrochemical Cell Inspired by Moth’s Eye

  

  Testing a photoelectrode in a sunlight simulator. (Credit: Empa)Researchers at the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa) have... Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Cosmic Rays Help Speed Up Fukushima Clean-Up

  

  Los Alamos National Laboratory postdoctoral researcher Elena Guardincerri, right, and undergraduate research assistant Shelby Fellows prepare a lead hemisphere... Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• BP Releases Its ‘Statistical Review of World Energy 2014’

  

  BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2014: Global primary energy consumption increased by 2.3% in 2013, growing faster than in 2012. Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Total, Amyris Add Renewable Farnesane to Jet Fuel

  

  Total and Amyris to market a new jet fuel blend that contains up to 10% blends of renewable farnesane. (Credit: Flickr @ Dean Morley https://www.flickr. Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• LANL Researchers Boost Quantum-Dot Solar Cell Efficiency

  

  Photo of a brick wall, illustrating the quantum well concept. (Credit: Prof. Peter J. Goodhew, The University of Liverpool)Researchers at the Los Alamos Nationa... Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Mathematical Model Minimizes Electric Bus System Costs

  

  A pilot electric bus project will use a mathematical model to reduce operational costs. (Credit: EPFL)Scientists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology... Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• IEA: Unconventional Oil Revolution to Expand Beyond North America

  

  The IEA has released the Medium-Term Oil Market Report 2014.The unconventional oil revolution that has redrawn the global oil supply map will likely expand... Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Food Coloring to Make Batteries Safer for Children

  

  (Credit: Flickr @ Stuart Webster https://www.flickr.com/photos/stuartwebster/)Scientist at the Victoria University of Wellington suggests using food coloring... Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Pilot Plant Uses Waste Hydrogen to Generate Electricity

  

  Kemira Chemicals Oy's main office, the "Kemira House", in Helsinki, Finland. (Credit: Kemira Chemicals)VTT Technical Research Center of Finland has developed a... Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Toshiba’s New Systems to Monitor Energy Use in Lyon, France

  

  Fourvière hill in the old part of Lyon, France. (Credit: Flickr @ Serge Vincent https://www.flickr.com/photos/sera69/)Toshiba is going to demonstrate its new... Read more

  Posted on 17 June 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY