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• EIA Releases Report on Liquid Fuels and Natural Gas in Americas

  

  Americas proved oil reserves and recoverable oil resources. (Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration and Advanced Resources International, Inc. Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Support for Fracking Declines in UK

  

  A shale gas well in Lawrence County, Pennsylvania. (Credit: Flickr @ WCN 24/7 http://www.flickr.com/photos/wcn247/) While an earlier study determined that the... Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• San Diego to Link Street Lights to Industrial Internet

  (Credit: Flickr @ Dirk Duckhorn http://www.flickr.com/photos/fahrertuer/) San Diego will soon become the first U.S. city to link its street lights to the... Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Study: Aerated Lagoons Are Potential Sources of Biofuel

  

  Stefanie Kring, an environmental science and engineering Ph.D. student at Clarkson University, has discovered the potential biofuel content of microbes that liv... Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Solar Energy Investment in Middle East, North Africa to Reach $50bn by 2020

  

  The Kuraymat Integrated Solar Combined Cycle (ISCC) project site is situated nearly 55 miles south of Cairo, Egypt. (Credit: Flickr @ Green Prophet... Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• China Can Cut Energy Use by 22%, Study Finds

  

  Building energy codes — which regulate factors such as building insulation pictured here — could play a major role in reducing China’s building energy... Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Construction Begins on Australia’s Largest Utility-Scale Solar Project

  

  An area west of Nyngan, New South Wales, Australia. (Credit: Flickr @ J Brew http://www.flickr.com/photos/brewbooks/) On Jan. 27, First Solar started the... Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Passive Sensor Monitors Electric Equipment, Harvests Spare Energy

  

  New smart wireless sensors can now reach hard-to-access locations such as rails where conventional sensors are either impossible or not cost effective.... Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Oil Price Volatility Hinders Economic Growth

  

  Researchers say oil prices must be brought under control. (Credit: Flickr @ Rongy Benjamin http://www.flickr.com/photos/benachou/) The oil price volatility is... Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Study: Blackouts Will Be More Common in Future

  

  A street of lower Manhattan during a blackout. (Credit: Flickr @ Dan Nguyen http://www.flickr.com/photos/zokuga/) New research by Hugh Byrd, Professor of... Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Startup to Commercialize Redox Flow Battery Energy Storage Technology

  

  Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s redox flow battery technology, which is expected to advance renewable energy storage, has been licensed to Lowell,... Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Bacteria Generates Electricity From Water Evaporation

  

  As Bacilli bacteria dry out and form spores (shown here), they wrinkle, and as they rehydrate, they swell. A team lead by former Wyss Institute resident... Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Straw-Fired Plants Can Achieve 70 to 94% Greenhouse Gas Savings

  

  Electricity can be generated using straw bales and straw pellets, a solid biofuel that could be used in the near future. (Credit: Flickr @ Martin Godfrey... Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• IRENA: Global Renewable Energy Share Can Double by 2030

  

  IRENA REmap 2030 The global renewable energy share can reach and exceed 30 per cent by 2030 at no extra cost, the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)... Read more

  Posted on 27 January 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• New Solar Cell Material Efficiently Captures High-Energy Photons

  

  Most simple solar cells handle the bluish hues of the electromagnetic spectrum inefficiently. This is because blue photons — incoming particles of light that... Read more

  Posted on 27 January 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• EVs Could Be Recharged Cheaper With Controlled Charging Speeds

  

  A charging station near a Walgreens store. (Credit: Mark Turnauckas http://www.flickr.com/photos/marktee/) In a new study, Carnegie Mellon University researcher... Read more

  Posted on 27 January 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Energy-Dense Sugar Battery Developed at Virginia Tech

  

  Y.H. Percival Zhang, right, an associate professor of biological systems engineering in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and College of Engineering... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Novel Reaction Creates Solar Cell Material in Seconds

  

  (Credit: Flickr @ James Smile Click! http://www.flickr.com/photos/smileclick/) Research teams at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin for Materials and Energy (HZB)... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• One-Atom Thick Catalyst May Help Produce Cheap Hydrogen

  

  Researchers found MoS2 thin films are effective catalysts for hydrogen production. (Credit: North Carolina State University) Researchers at North Carolina... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Scientists Uncover Charge Transfer Mechanism in Perovskite Solar Cells

  

  Solar panels in Aspen, Colorado. (Credit: SolarDave.com) Lead halide perovskites have recently been used as light absorbers in hybrid organic–inorganic... Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY