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• World’s Largest Offshore Wind Turbine Installed in Belgium

  

  Alstom’s Haliade 150-6MW wind offshore turbine at Belwind site, Belgium. (Credit: Alstom) Alstom, a French multinational power company, has completed the... Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Stanford Study May Shift Organic Solar Cell Research Paradigm

  

  Stanford scientists may have resolved a debate over how organic solar cells turn sunlight into electricity. The question: What causes electron-hole pairs... Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Berkeley Lab Creates Best Lithium-Sulfur Cell Yet

  

  (Credit: Flickr @ Wesley Fryer http://www.flickr.com/photos/wfryer/) Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory... Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Additive Manufacturing Can Save Aircraft Makers Energy

  

  ORNL 3-D printer in use. (Credit: ORNL) Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) are working with aircraft makers to... Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• 2014 Toyota Highlander Hybrid Debuts at Los Angeles Auto Show

  

  2014 Toyota Highlander Hybrid. (Credit: Toyota Motor Corporation) The 2014 Toyota Highlander Hybrid is now on display at the 2013 Los Angeles Auto Show. Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• ADB Funds Hydropower Projects in Samoa

  

  The loan provided under the Asia-Pacific Disaster Response Facility will help Samoa rebuild hydropower plants, thereby reducing the country's reliance on... Read more

  Posted on 20 November 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• ENI to Use Supercomputer for Hydrocarbon Exploration

  

  Eni's Green Data Center: A panoramic view. (Credit: Eni) Eni, an Italian multinational oil and gas company, has fired up its new Petaflop class supercomputer. Read more

  Posted on 20 November 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• U.S. Light-Duty Vehicles Use 11% Less Fuel Since 2004

  

  A light-duty Tastykake van somewhere in South Philly. (Credit: Ezra Wolfe http://www.flickr.com/photos/ezraw/) In a follow-up to two reports (1, 2) released... Read more

  Posted on 20 November 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• ORNL Uses Titanium to Make Tiny UAV Engines Hugely Efficient

  

  Oak Ridge National Laboratory engineers are trying to improve efficiency and performance in tiny engines in remote-controlled airplanes that have applications... Read more

  Posted on 20 November 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• SRNL to Develop Accident Tolerant Nuclear Fuel

  

  NRC Image of fresh fuel pellets ready for assembly. While fuels used in commercial reactors in the United States today are already extremely robust, there is... Read more

  Posted on 19 November 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Polymer-Coated Battery Electrode Heals Itself

  

  A team of researchers from Stanford University, along with scientists from the Department of Energy’s (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, has created th... Read more

  Posted on 19 November 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Sandia to Convert Natural Gas to Liquid Fuel Using Biocatalysts

  

  Using enzyme engineering and other capabilities, Sandia National Laboratories will work to engineer pathways from methanotroph organisms into another microbial... Read more

  Posted on 19 November 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• SINTEF to Test Smart Pipeline Technology

  

  Project Manager Ole Øystein Knudsen at SINTEF says the new self-monitoring pipelines will provide us with a continuous data stream. Read more

  Posted on 19 November 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Scientist Finds Global Warming’s ‘Missing Heat’ in a Hobby Project

  

  Glaciers are in danger again. (Credit: Flickr @ McKay Savage http://www.flickr.com/photos/mckaysavage/) A team of scientists say they have found ‘missing heat’... Read more

  Posted on 18 November 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Electric Car With 4 Motors but No Transmission Under Development

  

  An experimental four wheel independently actuated, lightweight electric vehicle. (Credit: Junmin Wang / Ohio State University) Junmin Wang, assistant professor... Read more

  Posted on 18 November 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Researchers Create Better Transmitter Coils for Dynamic Wireless Charging

  

  A small prototype serves as a proof of concept for the dynamic wireless charging system. (Credit: Richard Ebersohl / North Carolina State University) Researcher... Read more

  Posted on 18 November 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• IKEA to Build Largest Solar Roof in South Florida

  

  . (Credit: Flickr @ Håkan Dahlström http://www.flickr.com/photos/dahlstroms/) Last week, IKEA, a Swedish company that designs and sells ready-to-assemble... Read more

  Posted on 18 November 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Phononics May Provide Buildings With Thermal Cloaking

  

  Martin Maldovan, of the Georgia Institute of Technology, has published a review article on phononics in Nature. (Credit: Rob Felt / Georgia Tech)The emerging... Read more

  Posted on 15 November 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• New Report Assesses the Economics of Electricity Storage

  

  The way to future electricity storage is not clear-cut as many questions arise concerning technology, markets and regulations. The JRC provides some... Read more

  Posted on 15 November 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• INL Testing of Wireless EV Charging System Successful

  

  A Plugless Power parking pad. (Credit: Plugless Power)Idaho National Laboratory (INL) researchers recently released independent testing results of a wireless... Read more

  Posted on 15 November 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY