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• Rooftop PV Panels Can Turn Suburbs into Power Providers, Research Shows

  

  Downtown Los Angeles as an example of a compact city infrastructure. (Credit: Flickr @ Bobby Magee http://www.flickr.com/photos/spacemanbob/)According to the... Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Nanoscale Electrode Printing Process Boosts Supercapacitor Performance

  

  Zenan Yu and Jayan Thomas hold samples (magnified in the background) of nanopillar structures they printed. (Credit: UCF)Scientists at the University of... Read more

  Posted on 30 July 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Researchers Identify Best Microbial Species for Biofuel Production

  

  The microbial world of biomass deconstruction became more clear with a JBEI/JGI/EMSL study of a thermophillic bacterial consortium adapted to switchgrass. Read more

  Posted on 30 July 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Americans Are Driving About 5 Percent Less, Research Finds

  

  (Credit: Flickr @ Stefan Andrej Shambora http://www.flickr.com/photos/st_a_sh/)Miles driven by U.S. motorists in light-duty vehicles are down about 5 percent... Read more

  Posted on 30 July 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Simple PV Cell Successfully Stores 5% of Solar Energy in Hydrogen

  

  Using a simple solar cell and a photo anode made of a metal oxide bismuth vanadate, scientists at the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in the... Read more

  Posted on 30 July 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• OPEC’s Annual Bulletin Highlights Petroleum Industry Trends

  

  An entrance to the new OPEC headquarters in Vienna.The OPEC Secretariat has recently announced the release of the online edition of the 2013 Annual Statistical... Read more

  Posted on 29 July 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Internet Can Become 88 Percent Greener, More Efficient

  

  Lego Datacenter from the Lego Office 365 datacenter diorama as displayed at TechEd in Orlando, Florida. (Credit: Flickr @ Simon Bisson http://www.flickr. Read more

  Posted on 29 July 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Scientists Fit Birds With Vibrational Energy Generators

  

  A pigeon with a Cornell mini backpack. (Credit: Michael Shafer)Large scale climatic changes, as have been experienced in the past, are expected to have an effec... Read more

  Posted on 29 July 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• EIA Projects Global Energy Consumption to Grow by 56% by 2040

  

  (Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, International Energy Outlook 2013.)In a recent report called “Energy Perspectives” published by Statoil, a... Read more

  Posted on 29 July 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Scientists Test Hundreds of Algae Species for Efficient Biofuel Production

  

  Dr Evan Stephens at an algae pond at the Solar Biofuels Research Centre. (Credit: University of Queensland)Dr Evan Stephens and the team at University of... Read more

  Posted on 26 July 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• New Microbe Strain Makes Diesel Fuel from Greenhouse Gas

  

  Jana Mueller was the lead author on a paper reporting that the bacterium Ralstonia eutropha has been engineered to produce diesel fuel from carbon dioxide. Read more

  Posted on 26 July 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• GE Will 3D Print Gas Turbines With a 1kW Laser

  

  A new 1-kilowatt 3D laser printer is finishing the GE monogram. (See video below for final result.)Over the last 10 years, engineers at GE Aviation have been... Read more

  Posted on 26 July 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Cheap III-V Thin Film Production Method Developed at Berkeley

  

  Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, have developed an inexpensive method of growing thin films of a material prized in the photovoltaic and... Read more

  Posted on 26 July 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• NETL Publishes Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Studies Compilation

  

  A solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) is an electrochemical conversion device that produces electricity directly from oxidizing a fuel. Read more

  Posted on 25 July 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• UK Adopts Innovative ‘T-Pylon’ Transmission Tower Design

  

  The new T-Pylon, designed by the Danish architects and engineers Bystrup. (Credit: Flickr @ National Grid http://www.flickr.com/photos/national_grid/)The UK’s... Read more

  Posted on 25 July 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Rabobank Group: ‘EU Needs a New Financing Approach for Renewable Energy Projects’

  

  Office buildings, Rabobank Nederland, Utrecht (Credit: Rabobank)According to Rabobank, a Dutch multinational banking and financial services company, the... Read more

  Posted on 25 July 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Rwanda to Build Its First Grid-Level Solar Plant

  

  The signing of an energy deal between the Government of Rwanda and Giga Watt Global Rwanda Limited (Credit: Rwanda Ministry of Infrastructure)The Government of... Read more

  Posted on 24 July 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Peru to Spend $3 Billion on New Electric Generation Capacity

  

  Residents of Taquile Island (island on the Peruvian side of Lake Titicaca 45 km offshore from the city of Puno ) widely use solar panel-generated electricity.... Read more

  Posted on 24 July 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Largest Solar Farm Project in Latin America Secures PV Module Supply

  

  Suntech Power photovoltaic production site. (Credit: Suntech Power Holdings Co.)Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd. Will be supplying 132,000 Suntech Ve and Vd... Read more

  Posted on 24 July 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Researchers Propose to Store Energy in Glass

  

  A glass cube from the Corning Museum of Glass is also, in a way, an energy storage device. (Credit: Flickr @ Chris Dlugosz http://www.flickr. Read more

  Posted on 24 July 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY