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• Energy Department’s Grid Energy Storage Report Released

  

  An electrical substation somewhere in Florida.(Credit: Flickr @ Daniel Oines http://www.flickr.com/photos/dno1967b/) Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz yesterday... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Light Trapping Scheme Makes Ultrathin Solar Cells Much Better

  

  (Credit: University of Central Florida, Nano-Optics Research Group) A team of researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Imaging Technique Helps Control Plasma in Fusion Experiments

  

  A recently developed imaging technique, called Electron Cyclotron Emission Imaging (ECEI), can help researchers control plasma in fusion experiments. Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• ITER Tokamak Complex Construction Reaches ‘Concrete’ Action Phase

  

  As the sun comes up over the ITER site on 11 December, the first pouring operations are already underway. Twelve hours were necessary to fill the 550 m²... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Record Efficiency Achieved for Quantum Dot Sensitized Solar Cell

  

  Hunter McDaniel, Los Alamos National Laboratory postdoctoral researcher, works in the laboratory developing next-generation quantum dots that could revolutioniz... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Scientists Watch as Solar Cell Degrades in Real Time

  

  Internal structure of the active layer of the polymer solar cell: The orange areas represent the active domains, where light is absorbed and charge carriers... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Software Allows to Control Real Plasma Experiment From Browser

  

  The user can operate the experiment with a set of controls, shown on the left side of the screen, and watch the effect on the apparatus at PPPL using the... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• System Stops Car Engine Unless Gas Pressed, Saves 10% Fuel

  

  The innovative technology stops the engine when the vehicle is in motion, so that it does not consume any fuel. Whenever the vehicle can maintain its speed... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Siemens Builds World’s Longest Gas-Insulated Transmission Line

  

  Looking upstream on the Jinsha Jiang River at the Xiloudu Dam, you can see two of the water entry openings. The dam filling with water is ongoing. Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• UK’s Largest Coal Plant Converts to Wood Pellets

  

  Drax Power Station aerial view. (Credit: Drax Group) U.K. energy secretary Ed Davey has opened the country’s largest renewable electricity generator at Drax... Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Researchers Realize Tunable Electrical Conductivity in MOF Materials

  

  Sandia National Laboratories researchers Mark Allendorf, left, Alec Talin, center, and Francois Leonard measure the conductivity of a metal-organic framework... Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Piezoelectric Material Plugs Leaks in Transistors, Saves Energy

  

  The electrical current passing through a transistor is conducted by a slice of silicon. In the new transistor, this is sandwiched between layers of piezoelectri... Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Evonik Uses Bacteria to Produce Chemicals from Waste Gas

  

  Picture of a guitar made of methyl methacrylate (PMMA), a transparent thermoplastic, often used as a lightweight or shatter-resistant alternative to glass.... Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• ADB Helps China Build Utility-Scale Concentrated Solar Power Plant

  

  Shams 1 concentrating solar power station near Abu Dhabi, UAE. (Credit: Flickr @ Masdar Official http://www.flickr.com/photos/94219060@N03/) A $150 million... Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• New York’s Fresh Kills Landfill to Become Solar Park

  

  Fresh Kills сonversion stages. (Credit: New York City Department of Parks Recreation) With its 2,200 acres of total area, New York’s Fresh Kills landfil... Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Acura Debuts RLX Sport Hybrid SH-AWD

  

  2014 Acura RLX Sport Hybrid. (Credit: Honda Motor Company) In early 2013, Acura introduced the 310-horsepower RLX sedan. Now, Acura is raising the bar with the... Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• USGS Estimates 6.9 Trillion Cubic Feet of Recoverable Natural Gas in Denmark

  

  A rig somewhere off the coast of Denmark. (Credit: Flickr @ Enrico Strocchi http://www.flickr.com/photos/strocchi/) According to the United States Geological... Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Study: Some Companies Could Switch to Wood Power

  

  These wood pellets can be used as a fuel in heat boilers. (Credit: U.S. Department of Agriculture) According to researchers at the Pennsylvania State... Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Spectroscopic Tech Helps Create Better Materials for Batteries

  

  Gao Liu (left) and Wanli Yang at the Advanced Light Source beamline where this research was conducted. (Credit: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) A new... Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Toyota Announces New 2014 Prius v Family Hybrid

  

  2014 Toyota Prius v Family Hybrid. (Credit: Toyota Motor Corporation) Largest in the line of Toyota Prius models, the Prius v provides enough room for a family... Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY