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• Brookhaven Lab Scientists Discover Anomalous Behavior of High-Temperature...

  

  Brookhaven Lab physicist Ivan Bozovic with the molecular beam epitaxy system he uses to engineer atomically precise superconducting materials. Read more

  Posted on 06 August 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Lightweight Car Construction Tech Saves Fuel, Ensures Adequate Safety

  

  This crash test is designed to establish how much a sample component deforms under a defined bending stress. (Fraunhofer IWS) Lightweight or crash-safe—must it... Read more

  Posted on 06 August 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• BMW i3 Vs Tesla Model S: A Competition?

  

  BMW i3 (Credit: BMW Group) Tesla motors has company in the luxury electric vehicle market. BMW recently revealed its first mass-produced electric vehicle, dubbe... Read more

  Posted on 06 August 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Solar Power Can Provide One-Third of U.S. West’s Energy Needs

  

  Relatively inexpensive solar power could cover more than a third of all energy needs in the Western U.S., if the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) succeeds with... Read more

  Posted on 05 August 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Scientists at CU-Boulder Develop New Hydrogen Production Method

  

  An artist’s conception of a commercial hydrogen production plant that uses sunlight to split water in order to produce clean hydrogen fuel. Read more

  Posted on 05 August 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• New Graphene Supercapacitor ‘Almost Ready for Commercial Development’

  

  Renewable energy is just one area set to benefit from a breakthrough in graphene engineering. (Credit: Flickr @ Martin Abegglen http://www.flickr. Read more

  Posted on 05 August 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Novel Lead-Free Ceramic Capacitors to Improve Electric Vehicle Performance

  

  A HITECA capacitor (Credit: NPL) Hybrid and electric vehicles rely on high efficiency power conversion and management, with automotive power electronics... Read more

  Posted on 05 August 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Innovative Radioactive Waste Treatment Plant Completes Final Testing

  

  Kozloduy nuclear power plant. (Credit: Jean Paul Bemer / IAEA) Spanish Iberdrola Ingeniería, and Belgoprocess, a Belgian company that offers integrated nuclear... Read more

  Posted on 05 August 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• First U.S. Commercial-Scale Cellulosic Ethanol Project Launches in Florida

  

  Indian River BioEnergy Center. (Credit: INEOS Bio) The Energy Department this week recognized the nation’s first commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol production... Read more

  Posted on 02 August 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• EIA Report: U.S. Natural Gas and Oil Reserves Increase to New Record

  

  US crude oil and lease condensate reserves, production and import, 1981-2011. (Credit: U.S. EIA)U.S. proved crude oil reserve additions in 2011 set a record... Read more

  Posted on 02 August 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• First Solar, AGL Energy to Build Australia’s Largest Utility-Scale Solar Projects

  

  A sculpture of solar petals outside Adelaide’s Festival Center (Credit: Flickr @ Ikhwan Zailani http://www.flickr.com/photos/australiacool/)AGL Energy Limited... Read more

  Posted on 02 August 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Bioinspired Window-Cooling System Cuts Energy Bills

  

  Large glass windows provide better natural lighting conditions, but also let in more heat, therefore bringing higher air-conditioning bills. Read more

  Posted on 02 August 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Graphene in Energy: Batteries, Supercapacitors and Solar Cells

  

  Motherboard voltage regulator capacitors. (Credit: Flickr @ Robert http://www.flickr.com/photos/disoculated/)The potential of graphene for batteries becomes mor... Read more

  Posted on 02 August 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• New ‘Electronic Ink’ Technology Can Make Solar Cell Prices Plummet

  

  Researchers in the University of Minnesota’s College of Science and Engineering and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado, have discovere... Read more

  Posted on 01 August 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Largest Grid-Scale Energy Storage Trial in EU Launched

  

  A view of the office of the German renewable energy company, Younicos (Credit: Younicos)S C Electric Europe, Samsung SDI and Younicos have signed a joint... Read more

  Posted on 01 August 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Plasmonic Black Metals Will Make Solar Cells More Efficient

  

  LLNL engineer Tiziana Bond (center) is holding an etched silicon wafer with the nanopatterns. Second row from left to right: Bond's nanophotonics and... Read more

  Posted on 01 August 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Alstom’s 1MW Tidal Turbine Reaches Full Power in Real Conditions

  

  Alstom Tidal turbine at EMEC center, off Orkney islands Scotland. (Credit: Alstom)Alstom’s 1MW tidal turbine was immersed in January 2013, at the European Marin... Read more

  Posted on 01 August 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• German Consortium Plans to Harvest Wave Energy With Silicon Sheets

  

  In Waiblingen near Stuttgart, the bosch engineer Istvan Denes works on a device designed to convert wave energy into electrical power. This process makes use... Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Less Obvious Ways to Increase Energy Efficiency: a Review of Recent Research

  

  An in-ceiling air curtain at a building entrance. The device saves energy by keeping conditioned air inside the building. (Credit: Flickr @ Berner... Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Novel Transparent Solar Cell Efficiency Doubled

  

  Researchers at UCLA have almost doubled the efficiency of a breakthrough photovoltaic cell they created last year, by developing a two-layer, transparent solar... Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY