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• New Catalyst to Make Hydrogenation Cleaner and Cheaper

  

  McGill's downtown campus at night viewed from Mount Royal. (Photo by DAVID ILIFF. License: CC-BY-SA 3.0)A new iron nanoparticle catalyst developed by researcher... Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Asian Development Bank Aims to Increase End-User Energy Efficiency

  

  The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will ramp up efforts in the region for greater utilization of energy on the demand-side, the most cost-effective way to increas... Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Report Estimates 1400 Tcf Shale Gas in North of England

  

  Location of the DECC/BGS study area in central Britain, together with prospective areas for shale gas, currently licensed acreage and selected urban areas. Othe... Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Europe’s Largest Wind Farm Becomes Even Larger

  

  Whitelee, Europe's largest onshore windfarm, operated by ScottishPower Renewables, on Eaglesham Moor, south of Glasgow. (Credit: Scottish Government/Russell... Read more

  Posted on 28 June 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Scientists Plan to Harvest Algae With Ultrasound

  

  Harvesting algae (Credit: Eugene Zelenko, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:EugeneZelenko)Approximately 7,000 tons of microalgae are grown and used annuall... Read more

  Posted on 28 June 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Hydrogen Fuel Cells Will Make Seaports Cleaner

  

  Sandia National Laboratories researcher Joe Pratt stands near the Port of Oakland, one of the west coast ports he studied to learn whether hydrogen fuel cells... Read more

  Posted on 28 June 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Sustainable Development Organization Moves Its Servers to Cloud to Save Energy

  

  Moving common business applications from local computer systems to centralized cloud services could cut information technology energy consumption by up to 87... Read more

  Posted on 28 June 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Volvo to Commercialize Dimethyl Ether Heavy-Duty Vehicles in the U.S.

  

  Volvo has conducted extensive customer field tests of the DME-powered trucks in real-world applications, both in the U.S. and in Europe, resulting in 650,000... Read more

  Posted on 27 June 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Slimy Fast-Growing Marine Organism Can Be Used for Efficient Biofuel Production

  

  Funicates raised at a research facility in Øygarden, Norway. (Photo: Bård Amundsen)It sounds too good to be true: a common marine species that consume... Read more

  Posted on 27 June 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• World Record for Two-Junction Solar Cell Efficiency Set at NREL

  

  In the IMM cell, high-performance subcells are realized by: (1) inverting the usual growth order, growing mismatched cells last, (2) engineering a transparent... Read more

  Posted on 27 June 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Methane, Ethane and Propane Levels Higher in Water Near Shale Gas Wells

  Some people who get drinking water from wells that are located too close to a fracking site appear to be at higher risk of drinking water contamination from... Read more

  Posted on 27 June 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• New Liquid Luminescent Material Makes Flexible Displays a Reality

  

  Full-colour luminescence panels under ultraviolet (365nm) irradiation by adjustment of the nonvolatile blue-emitting anthracene liquid (left: photo) in the... Read more

  Posted on 26 June 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Finnish Startup Brings Solar Cells to Your Backpack

  

  Tespack, a recently created Finnish startup company, is focused on bringing renewable energy into everyday items. The goal of the startup is to provide bikers,... Read more

  Posted on 26 June 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• New Joint Venture to Develop Next-Gen Electric Car Batteries

  

  Robert Bosch GmbH and the Japanese companies GS Yuasa International Ltd., based in Kyoto, and Mitsubishi Corporation, based in Tokyo, have agreed to work... Read more

  Posted on 26 June 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Obama Calls for More Solar, Renewables as Part of New Climate Action Plan

  

  Yesterday, President Barack Obama announced the White House’s new Climate Action Plan to curb carbon and other pollutants in the air. Read more

  Posted on 26 June 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Improved Traffic Control System Cuts Fuel Consumption by 20%

  

  A new project by the Technical University of Munich (TUM), BMW Group, TRANSVER GmbH and the Supreme Building Authority in the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior... Read more

  Posted on 25 June 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Carbon Nanotube Solar Cells Can Be as Efficient as Silicon Ones

  

  In an approach that could challenge silicon as the predominant photovoltaic cell material, University of Wisconsin-Madison materials engineers have developed... Read more

  Posted on 25 June 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Scientists Create Wooden Battery for Large-Scale Energy Storage

  Wood fibers help nano-scale batteries keep their structure. A sliver of wood coated with tin could make a tiny, long-lasting, efficient and environmentally... Read more

  Posted on 25 June 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Open-Source System for Energy Data Storage and Integration Launched

  

  You can use NREL’s Energy DataBus software to collect and analyze energy data. And this is a different DATA Bus you can use to travel around Durham, North... Read more

  Posted on 25 June 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Novel Biomass Pretreatment Increases Sugar Yields Fivefold

  

  An enzyme (shown in blue) pulls out individual cellulose chains (pink) from the pretreated nanofiber surface (green) and then breaks them apart into simple... Read more

  Posted on 24 June 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY