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• New Magnetic Materials Hold Promise for Better Generators

  

  Atlantis ship deploys a 1 MW tidal turbine at European Marine Energy Centre at Orkney, UK. (Credit: Flickr @ Green Energy Futures https://www.flickr. Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Ionic Liquid Resistance Mechanism to Advance Biofuel Production

  

  JBEI researchers identified the genetic origins of a resistance to ionic liquids found in Enterobacter lignolyticus, a soil bacterium discovered in a... Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Researchers Observe Microstructural Degradation in Li-Ion Battery in 3D

  

  Jun Wang (on the right) with members of her research team: Jiajun Wang and Karen Chen prepare a sample for study at NSLS beamline X8C. (Credit: Brookhaven... Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Bioenergy From Forestry Is Not Sustainable Enough for EU

  

  (Credit: Flickr @ hans peter meyer https://www.flickr.com/photos/hanspetermeyer/)The levels of forest residue bioenergy, considered to be sustainable from a... Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• China Becomes World’s Largest Importer of Petroleum

  

  Comparison of net petroleum and other liquids imports for China and United States. (Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Short-Term Energy Outlook,... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Study: Electric-Vehicle Tax Incentives Are Inefficient

  

  A Nissan Leaf taxi charging at a Petrobras charging station in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Credit: Flickr @ mariordo59 http://www.flickr. Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Siemens to Build Major Factory for Offshore Wind Power in UK

  

  Siemens to produce rotor blades for offshore wind turbines in a new factory in the UK. (Credit: Siemens AG, Munich/Berlin)Siemens is investing more than €190... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Fragmented Carbon Nanotube Macrofilms Hold Promise for Better Batteries

  

  Researchers at the University of Delaware have discovered that fragmented carbon nanotube films can serve as adhesive conductors in lithium-ion batteries. Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Buoys to Capture Weather Data for Offshore Wind Energy Research

  

  The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will deploy two large buoys 20 miles offshore of the coast and 40 miles north and southwest from Cape Hatteras t... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Johnson Controls to Develop New EV Battery Cooling Systems

  

  Christian Rosenkranz, Vicepresident Johnson Controls Power Solutions Advanced Materials and Products Engineering (left) and Dr.-Ing. Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• New Solar Cell Moonlights as Light Panel

  

  A new perovskite solar cell doubles as a light panel at nighttime. (Credit: Nanyang Technological University)Nanyang Technological University (NTU) scientists... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Researchers Plan to Obtain Isobutene From Sugar, Not Oil

  

  In the pilot plant at the Fraunhofer Center for Chemical-Biotechnological Processes CBP researchers are producing oil substitutes from renewable raw materials. Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Algae Work as Biofuel Source Even in Cold Climates

  

  Growing algae at VTT’s laboratory. (Credit: VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland)Even in a cool climate as in Finland, algae might be used to produce... Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• 60% of U.S. Consumers Worry About Impact of Energy on Environment

  

  The average U.S. household spent about $2,000 last year on home energy, including electricity. (Credit: Flickr @ Jared and Corin http://www.flickr. Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Still Affects Environment

  

  Exxon Valdez. (Credit: NOAA Office of Response and Restoration)In the early morning hours of March 24, 1989, the Exxon Valdez oil tanker sliced into Prince... Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Wind Industry, Even With Energy Storage Costs, Is Sustainable

  

  Stanford researchers look at the energetic cost of energy storage technologies for the electrical grid. (Credit: Flickr @ Patrick Finnegan http://www.flickr. Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Spent Nuclear Fuel Could Be Used as Energy Source

  

  Lawrence Livermore researchers are studying how spent nuclear fuel generated at nuclear reactors could be used as another source of energy. On the photo: Rivne... Read more

  Posted on 21 March 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Researchers Find Possible Way to Make Superconducting Graphene

  

  Adding calcium atoms (orange spheres) between graphene planes (blue honeycomb) creates a superconducting material called CaC6. Read more

  Posted on 21 March 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• U.S. Biomass Energy Consumption Grows 60% from 2002 to 2013

  

  Biomass energy consumed, by type, 2002-2013. (Source: EIA, Monthly Energy Review, Short-Term Energy Outlook, and EIA estimates)U.S. biomass energy consumption... Read more

  Posted on 21 March 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• New Magnetic Mechanism Could Advance Fusion Power

  

  The top of this image shows how early in the heating, magnetic fields, drawn as black lines, prevent heat from flowing easily between the two yellow laser spots. Read more

  Posted on 21 March 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY