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• Resilience of Europe’s Natural Gas Networks Tested

  

  A map of Europe's natural gas networks. (Credit: Queen Mary University of London)Gas networks in Eastern European countries, such as Ukraine and Belarus are les... Read more

  Posted on 14 March 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• New Technology Enables People to ‘See’ Radiation

  

  Polaris-H, a commercialized radiation detector created by a team of University of Michigan alumni and Professors. (Credit: Joseph Xu / Michigan Engineering... Read more

  Posted on 13 March 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Battery-Less Photodetector Powers Radio Transmitter

  

  Ferroelectric compounds used in photodetectors can help to minimize electrical losses, facilitating a sensor and monitoring network that can go ‘off the grid’.... Read more

  Posted on 13 March 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Scientists Store Hydrogen in Graphene Origami Box

  

  Hydrogen (white) is packed into a tiny box made of graphene, which researchers at the University of Maryland in College Park can open and close using... Read more

  Posted on 13 March 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Small Modular Reactors Could Provide Safer Nuclear Energy

  

  CROCUS is a research reactor at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland, sometimes described as zero power but in fact limited to 100 W. Read more

  Posted on 13 March 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Vestas Creates Wind Turbine Tower for Low Wind Sites

  

  Vestas V112-3.0 MW turbines in Macarthur, Australia. (Credit: Vestas)Vestas has launched the Large Diameter Steel Tower, a solution to increase wind turbine... Read more

  Posted on 12 March 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Hull for World’s Largest Floating LNG Facility Floated Out of Dry Dock

  

  Shell’s Prelude FLNG will be the largest floating facility ever built. (Credit: Royal Dutch Shell plc)The 488-meter-long (1601 ft. Read more

  Posted on 12 March 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Scientists Create Thinnest LED Ever

  

  This graphical representation shows the layers of the 2-D LED and how it emits light. (Credit: University of Washington)University of Washington scientists... Read more

  Posted on 12 March 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• EIA: U.S. Oil and Natural Gas Wells Become More Efficient

  

  New-well oil and natural gas production per rig. (Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, March 2014 Drilling Productivity Report)The productivity of oi... Read more

  Posted on 12 March 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Modeling Tool Helps Plan Offshore Wind Farms

  

  Geological data are important for offshore wind farms. (Credit: UK Department of Energy Climate Change)When planning an offshore wind farm, it is important... Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Ultrathin Tungsten Diselenide Solar Cell Created

  

  Microscope photograph of WSe2-samples, connected to electrodes. (Credit: TU Wien)Researchers at the Vienna University of Technology have succeeded for the... Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Number of E85 Fueling Stations Is Growing in U.S.

  

  E85 retail stations, by state. (Source: U.S. Department of Energy, Alternative Fuels Data Center)The number of retail fueling stations offering motor fuel that... Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Wood Foam Could Replace Plastics Used for Thermal Insulation

  

  This wood foamed board is an entirely natural product made from sustainable raw materials. (Credit: Fraunhofer WKI)Insulation materials of tomorrow must be... Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• New Photocathode Material Efficiently Stores Solar Energy in Hydrogen

  

  Interfacing the semiconductor gallium phosphide with a cobaloxime catalyst provides an inexpensive photocathode for bionic leaves that produce energy-dense fuel... Read more

  Posted on 10 March 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Marine Bacteria Efficiently Clean Oil Spills

  

  Bioremediation is nature's way of cleaning up. Plants, bacterial decomposers or enzymes are used to remove contaminants and restore the balance of nature in... Read more

  Posted on 10 March 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Start-Up Licenses ORNL Ethanol-to-Hydrocarbon Tech

  

  ORNL inventors (from left) Chaitanya Narula, Brian Davison and Martin Keller display the technology with Vertimass chairman William Shopoff. Read more

  Posted on 10 March 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Report: U.S. Solar Market Grows 41% in 2013

  

  Continuing its explosive growth, the U.S. solar market had a record-shattering year in 2013. According to GTM Research and the Solar Energy Industries... Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Multiferroic Materials to Increase Energy Efficiency for Computer Processors

  

  A picture of spin wave devices, showing magneto-electric cells used for voltage-controlled spin wave generation in the spin wave bus material (yellow stripe).... Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Gallium Nitride Transistors Make LED Lamps More Compact, Efficient

  

  Gallium nitride transistors enable the compact design of this 2090 lumen retrofit LED lamp (exploded diagram for purpose of illustration). Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Technip Helps Design World’s First Commercial Carbon Capture and Storage Project

  

  The Peterhead Gas Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) onshore facility in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. (Credit: Shell UK)Technip has been awarded a contract by Shell U... Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY