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• Report: Payoff for Highly Insulating Windows Takes Decades

  

  Installation of a triple-pane window in one of PNNL’s Lab Homes. (Credit: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) While comfort and other benefits are more... Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Report: World Will Reach Solar Parity by 2025

  

  The idea of parity for solar power, the day when power from solar panels costs as much as other electric generation sources like coal or natural gas, is coming... Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Miscanthus Giganteus Better Than Switchgrass for Biofuel Production

  

  Researchers grew Miscanthus x giganteus (the taller grass) and switchgrass in side-by-side field trials in seven locations in Illinois. (Credit: L. Brian... Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Microgrid Control Tech Enables Remote Island to Add More Wind Energy

  

  Faial Caldera, Faial Island, Azores, Portugal. A new microgrid control solution developed by ABB, a multinational corporation operating mainly in the power and... Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Dispersants Used in Deepwater Horizon Clean Up Less Harmful Than Predicted

  

  Skimming operations continue to help mitigate the effects of the Deepwater Horizon/BP oil spill Friday, June 25, 2010. (Credit: U.S. Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• New Way to Sustain Controlled Fusion Reactions Found

  

  The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) in Hefei, China. (Credit: ASIPP) A multinational team led by Chinese researchers in collaboration with... Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• ‘Co-Catalyst’ System Makes Synthetic Gasoline Production Cheaper

  

  UIC researchers Amin Salehi-Khojin (seated), Bijandra Kumar and Mohammad Asadi. (Photo: Roberta Dupuis-Devlin / UIC Photo Services) A chemical system developed... Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Unstable Ceria Can Convert Solar Energy Into Hydrogen

  

  (Credit: Flickr @ Umair Mohsin http://www.flickr.com/photos/umairmohsin/) A team of scientists at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) has successfully... Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• EIA: Growth in Energy Use to Come From Outside OECD

  

  Projected world primary energy consumption, quadrillion Btu. (Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, International Energy Outlook 2013) The EIA’s lates... Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Virtual Invisible Wall Can Stop Oil Spills

  

  The proposed technology is based on the same principle that helps water striders move on the water surface. (Credit: Flickr @ Orest Shvadchak http://www.flickr. Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• New Micro-Reactor Will Help Study Catalytic Nanoparticles

  

  This high-resolution transmission electron micrograph reveals the arrangement of cerium oxide nanoparticles (bright angular "slashes" at the bottom of the image... Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Exotic Drops May Help Create All-Liquid Battery

  

  (Credit: Flickr @ Joshua Rothhaas http://www.flickr.com/photos/joshuarothhaas/) Through the combination of water, oil and nanoparticle surfactants plus an... Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Researchers Combine Antennas With Solar Panels

  

  Scientists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, have combined antennas with solar panels to work together with... Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Thermoelectric Compounds Manufactured on Kilogram Scale

  

  The individual components of thermoelectric modules are only a few millimeters in size. They are cut from specific alloys — such as half-Heusler compounds. Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Nissan Leaf Battery to Power Office Buildings

  

  Nissan’s new “vehicle-to-building” system allows up to six Nissan Leafs to be connected to a commercial building’s power distribution board. Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Petrobras, Embrapa Developing Sugarcane Ethanol Production Tech

  

  Sugarcane ethanol is a renewable fuel produced from sugarcane. (Credit: Flickr @ Sweeter Alternative http://www.flickr.com/photos/sweeteralternative/) Petrobras... Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• U.N. Leader Announces Initiative to Deliver Universal Access to Energy

  

  United Nations headquarters in New York, seen from the East River. (Credit: Flickr @ WorldIslandInfo.com http://www.flickr.com/people/76074333@N00/) United... Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• 24% Efficiency Achieved for n-Type Silicon Solar Cell

  

  (Credit: Flickr @ stantontcady http://www.flickr.com/photos/terrycady/) The Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (Fraunhofer ISE) has set a new... Read more

  Posted on 29 November 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Virtual Electric Vehicles Tested Under Real Conditions

  

  Benedikt Jäger (TUM), Florian Bachmann (Taxi association), Gunnar Heipp (SWM/MVG), Dr. Jürgen Gaulke (Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology), Dr. Wolfgan... Read more

  Posted on 29 November 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Innovative Coatings Make Hydrogen Fuel Production Easier

  

  A graphic representation of how atomic layer deposition can aid renewable hydrogen fuel generation. Two papers published in Proceedings of the National Academy... Read more

  Posted on 29 November 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY