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• Smart Air Flow Control Can Slash Energy Use by 18%

  

  Advanced controls can customize ventilation based on the number of people in a room. (Credit: PNNL)A single advanced building control now in development could... Read more

  Posted on 24 June 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Researchers Use 3D-Printer to Make Tiny Batteries

  

  Interlaced stack of electrodes were printed layer by layer to create a microbattery. (Photo: Jennifer Lewis)A group of scientists from Harvard and the Universit... Read more

  Posted on 24 June 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Emissions-Free Noiseless Bus Launched in Sweden

  

  Volvo electric bus in Gothenburg.(Credit: Roger Lundsten)Buses that glide noiselessly without emissions, that pick up passengers indoors and which are powered b... Read more

  Posted on 24 June 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Researchers Construct an ‘Antenna’ for Artificial Photosynthesis

  An artificial light-collecting antenna system. Binding a large number of light-absorbing molecules ("red balls") to a DNA molecule, which is then modified with ... Read more

  Posted on 24 June 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• ‘Energy Perspectives’ Report: Global Energy Demand to Grow by 40% by 2040

  

  In a new report called “Energy Perspectives” published by Statoil, a Norwegian multinational oil and gas company, company’s experts describe the long-term energ... Read more

  Posted on 21 June 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• LNG Production Started at Chevron’s Angola LNG Project

  

  View from Ilha de Luanda to the bay of Luanda, Angola's capital city and economic and commercial hub.First LNG project in Angola and one of the largest... Read more

  Posted on 21 June 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Global Trends in Oil Production: Growth Everywhere but in Europe and Asia

  

  Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, International Energy Statistics database.Growth in North American crude oil production (including lease... Read more

  Posted on 21 June 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• New Polymer Protects Photovoltaic ‘Artificial Leaves’ From Corrosion

  

  This complex solar cell is coated with two different catalysts and works like an "artificial leaf".One way to solve the solar energy storage problem is to is... Read more

  Posted on 21 June 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE, SOCIETY

• Norwegian Researchers Recover Unrecoverable Oil With Nanoparticles

  

  Pumpjack in the Saratoga oil field. Looks like an old Jenson unit. (Credit: Flickr @ Steven SLTompkins http://www.flickr.com/photos/25077310@N06/)When... Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Green Hydrogen Injected into Natural Gas System for the First Time

  

  Image of Falkenhagen power-to-gas pilot plant. (Source: E.ONs "Power-to-gas" program presentation... Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Fighting for Windmills: Vestas Launches a Pro-Wind Campaign

  

  Vestas "Act on Facts" portal.Apparently, Vestas’ management feels that the wind energy industry is loosing the war for public opinion. Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Counterintuitive Material That Expands Under Pressure to Be Used in Fuel Cells

  

  Pressure-induced transitions are associated with near 2-fold volume expansions. While an increase in volume with pressure is counterintuitive, the resulting... Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Experts Suggest Planting Trees to Save Up to 25% Energy Spent on Heating and...

  

  Properly planted trees can reduce heating and cooling costs. (Credit: Flickr @ Christopher Sessums http://www.flickr.com/photos/csessums/)A new online... Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Hyundai Delivers 15 Hydrogen-Powered SUVs to Copenhagen

  

  Hyundai ix35 Fuel Cell in Copenhagen. (Credit: Hyundai Motor Company)Hyundai Motor Company has recently delivered the first of its assembly line-produced ix35... Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• ABB Presents a Solution for Transmission Grid Management

  

  ABB, a multinational corporation operating mainly in the power and automation technology areas, has recently presented an innovative software solution, which... Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Google’s Project Loon Makes Cloud Computing a Reality

  

  Google’s Project Loon Makes Cloud Computing a Reality With Solar-Power and Balloons We call it the cloud and cloud computing—the use of servers distributed... Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2013 COMPUTING, CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY, TECH

• Automotive Fuel Cells to Be Used In Space

  

  Fuel cell stack undergoing testing at the JRC. (Credit: EU, 2013)Automotive fuel cells are not only good for powering eco-friendly buses and potentially fuel... Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Scientists Model Biofuel Production After Ants’ Fungus Gardens

  

  Illustration of the leaf-cutter ant Atta cephalotes in its fungus garden habitat. The variation in texture between the top and bottom strata represents the... Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Quantum-Dot Microscopy Method Allows to Improve Solar Cells

  

  Much like in an old tube television where a beam of electrons moves over a phosphor screen to create images, the new microscopy technique works by scanning a... Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Photoluminescent Nanoparticles Make LEDs Better, Greener, Less Expensive

  

  LumiSands cofounders Chang-Ching Tu, left, and Ji Hoo with with a demo showing the warmer, softer hue of the LED bulb (left side) after a film embedded with... Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY