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• U.S. Navy Christens New All-Electric Stealth Destroyer

  

  The USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000) after floating out of drydock, 28 October 2013. (Credit: U.S. Navy)The U.S. Navy christened this month the USS Zumwalt, the largest... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• New Method to Make Conductive Film for Solar Cells Cheaper

  

  Flexible, indium-free solar cell with a transparent conductive film produced using the new EMPA method. (Credit: EMPA)Researchers at the Swiss Federal... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Construction Starts on Jordan’s First Large-Scale Wind Power Plant

  

  Vestas V100-1.8 MW turbines in Macho Springs, USA. (Credit: Vestas)This week ground-breaking ceremony officially kicked off construction of the 117 MW wind powe... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Researchers Print Tiny, Efficient Multilayer Solar Cells

  

  The top cell in the stacked 3-junction/germanium assembly captures wavelengths between 300 nm and 1,300 nm; wavelengths from 1,300 nm to 1,700 nm pass through t... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Bacteria Could ‘Mop-Up’ Natural Gas Leaks

  

  Microbes may play an important role in mitigating the effects of methane and other gases. On the photo: A gas pipeline through Sycamore Canyon Park, Riverside,... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Report Finds Potential for 65 GW of New Hydropower in U.S.

  

  Ayers Island Hydro Power Plant in Grafton County, New Hampshire. (Credit: Public Service of New Hampshire)The Oak Ridge National Laboratory released a... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Insider Threats Compromise Safety of Nuclear Facilities

  

  A diesel generator at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in Southern California was possibly sabotaged, likely by an insider, in 2012. Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Novel Gold-Based Superconductor Discovered

  

  Crystal structure (a) and STEM (Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope) lattice image (b) of SrAuSi3. (Credit: See citation at the end of this... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Antineutrinos May Help Monitor Nuclear Reactors

  

  Dr. Nils Haag developed an experimental setup that allowed him to determine the missing spectrum of uranium 238. (Clredit: Wenzel Schuermann / TU München)When... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• European Project Demonstrates Solar Jet Fuel Production

  

  SOLAR-JET for the first time demonstrates the entire production path of solar kerosene. (Credit: SOLAR-JET project)With the first ever production of... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Thin-Film Flexible Energy Storage Device Created

  

  Rice University postdoctoral researcher Yang Yang holds an energy storage unit with the best qualities of batteries and supercapacitors in a scalable, flexible... Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Molybdenite LED Doubles as Solar Cell

  

  This new electronic device is simultaneously a LED and a solar cell. (Credit: EPFL)Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL),... Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Oil and Gas Exploration and Development Spending Increase 5% in 2013

  

  Upstream expenditures by category. (Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, based on Evaluate Energy database)Annual reports from 42 oil and natural... Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Nature-Inspired Catalyst to Make Hydrogen Fuel Cells Cheaper

  

  Neutron crystallography shows this iron catalyst gripping two hydrogen atoms (red spheres). This arrangement allows an unusual dihydrogen bond to form between... Read more

  Posted on 25 April 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Nanoreporters Gather Intel on Oil Before Pumping

  

  Nanoreporters tell ‘sour’ oil from ‘sweet’ while it is still in the ground. (Credit: Chih-Chau Hwang / Rice University)Scientists at Rice University have create... Read more

  Posted on 25 April 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Tools for Cleaning Up Oil Spills in U.S. Arctic Waters Required

  

  Researchers on the NASA-funded ICESCAPE mission—Impacts of Climate on Ecosystems and Chemistry of the Arctic Pacific Environment—examining melt ponds, the ice... Read more

  Posted on 25 April 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Wind Turbines Can Produce Lightning Discharges

  

  Scientists find out how wind turbines affect lightning; it may help energy companies save money. (Credit: Flickr @ Sean Freese https://www.flickr. Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Material That Prevents Plastic From Aging to Benefit Energy Industry

  

  Dr Sam Lau holding up a plastic membrane that has received a ‘shot of botox’. (Credit: CSIRO)A new material that prevents plastic from aging has been developed... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• EIA: U.S. Petroleum Exports Increase 10% in 2013

  

  U.S. distillate, gasoline, and propane export flows. (Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Petroleum Supply Monthly)Exports of petroleum products fro... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• HELMETH Project to Store Solar, Wind Energy in Natural Gas

  

  Shale gas pipes in Pennsylvania. (Credit: Max Phillips (Jeremy Buckingham MLC))The HELMETH EU project coordinated by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY