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• Prototype 1MW Ocean Energy Turbine Tested in Spain

  

  The prototype of the PROCODAC-GESMEY project. (Credit: Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)Researchers at the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM), as a part... Read more

  Posted on 09 July 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Paper Industry Can Cut Energy Consumption by 10%

  

  Americans use 36.5 billion rolls of toilet paper every year, representing the pulping of some 15 million trees, 473,587,500,000 gallons of water and 253,000 ton... Read more

  Posted on 09 July 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Solar Plane Completes ‘Across America’ Mission

  

  Solar Impulse flying over the Atlantic Ocean near Atlanic City. (Credit: Solar Impulse http://www.solarimpulse.com/)Solar Impulse—the solar-powered airplane of... Read more

  Posted on 09 July 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Molybdenum Disulfide Proposed as an Alternative to Platinum Catalysts

  Recent research by scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has discovered a new molybdenum disulfide catalyst structure that can facilitate the use... Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Cheaper Solar Cells Can Be Made From Abundant Nontoxic Material and Antifreeze

  

  A process combining copper zinc tin sulfide (CZTS)—a semiconducting compound composed of only abundant and non-toxic elements—and the same antifreeze that... Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Volkswagen Shows Its First Electric Car to Be Produced in High Volume

  

  e-up! — Volkswagen’s first fully electric mass production car — to launch this year. (Credit: Volkswagen Group)Volkswagen will be participating in this year’s... Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Graphene Cooling System Can Reduce Energy Consumption of Data Centers

  

  An electronic component where a graphene layer has been placed on the hotspots. (Credit: Chalmers University of Technology)A new energy-saving application of... Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• 2014 Mazda6 Sedan Uses Regenerative Braking to Power On-Board Electrical...

  

  2014 Mazda6 midsize sedan. (Credit: Mazda Motor Corporation)According to Mazda North American Operations (MNAO), its 2014 Mazda6 midsize sedan will feature the... Read more

  Posted on 05 July 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Floating Offshore Turbines Can Reduce Wind Energy Cost

  

  Wind turbines near the coast of Netherlands. (Credit: Flickr @ meaduva http://www.flickr.com/photos/meaduva/)Texas leads the U.S. in energy production with a... Read more

  Posted on 05 July 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• BASF Plans to Make Fuel From Greenhouse Gas

  

  Linde Hydrogen Centre in Unterschleissheim, Germany. (Credit: Linde Group)BASF, the Linde Group and ThyssenKrupp plan to develop an environmentally friendly... Read more

  Posted on 05 July 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• GM, Honda to Develop Next-Gen Fuel Cells Together

  

  Honda FCX Clarity fuel-cell vehicle. (Credit: Flickr @ Anthony Kendall http://www.flickr.com/photos/anthonares/)General Motors and Honda announced a long-term,... Read more

  Posted on 05 July 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Scientists Detect Methane Emissions With Laser

  

  Methane gas generated by the Los Reales landfill is recovered, treated and piped to Tucson Electric Power where it is used to generate electricity. Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• New Energy Storage Material Outperforms Current Capacitors

  

  Ray Withers and Yun Liu with the chemical model of the new material. (Credit: Australian National University)A new material that can store large amounts of... Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• EIA: Cement Industry is the Most Energy Intensive

  

  (Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis.)The industrial sector, which encompasses manufacturing,... Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• New Electrical Grid Energy Storage Technologies Review

  

  Marchlyn Mawr reservoir is a high level lake in Snowdonia behind Elidir Fawr mountain. It is used as the high level water source for Dinorwig power station, a... Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Laser Scan Helps to Find Defects in Thin-Film Solar Cells

  

  A team of scientists led by Bert Nickel at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) has, for the first time, succeeded in functionally characterizing th... Read more

  Posted on 02 July 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Public-Private Initiative to Help Strengthen Hydrocarbon Industry’s Cybersecurity

  

  (Original image credit: Tactical Technology Collective)The U.S. Department of energy announced last week a new public-private partnership to strengthen... Read more

  Posted on 02 July 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Scientists Working on Multicolored Solar Cells for Facade Design

  

  The photomontage shows how the Fraunhofer IAO building in Stuttgart could be fitted with an “efficient design” solar façade. (Credit: Fraunhofer IOF)Covering a... Read more

  Posted on 02 July 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• U.S. DOE Invests $3.5 Million in Advanced Nuclear Reactors

  

  Hope Creek Nuclear Generating Station taken from Delaware River. (Credit: Flickr @ Peretz Partensky http://www.flickr.com/photos/ifl/)The Energy Department... Read more

  Posted on 02 July 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• CNG and Hydrogen Mixture Can Reduce Emissions by 80%

  

  Percentage reduction for pollutant emissions of various GNG/H2 blends (Credit: EU, 2013)Vehicles using a variable mixture of compressed natural gas (CNG) and... Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY