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• Joint U.S.-Czech Republic Nuclear Cooperation Center Opens in Prague

  

  The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently joined with the U.S. Embassy in Prague and the Czech Republic’s Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports to sign an... Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Panasonic Will Ship 100 Million Li-Ion Batteries for Tesla’s Model S

  

  Tesla Model S on the road. (Credit: Tesla Motors)According to Panasonic, shipments of its automotive-grade lithium-ion battery cells for Tesla Motors’ Model S... Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2013 ENVIRONMENT, TECH

• Cloud Computing Can Save Enough Energy to Power Los Angeles for a Year

  

  A six-month study led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) with financial support from Google has found that moving common software... Read more

  Posted on 17 June 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY, TECH

• New Silicon Wafer Production Method to Make Solar Cells Cheaper

  

  A team of researchers from the Nanoengineering Research Centre (CRNE) and the Department of Electronic Engineering at the Universitat Politècnica de... Read more

  Posted on 17 June 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• New Technology Reduces Engine Wear, Fuel Consumption and Emissions

  

  Seat Leon FR 1.8 L I4 20v (179 PS; 177 bhp) turbo engine. Researchers at five Fraunhofer Institutes (Germany) have developed a method that can reduce... Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Better Understanding of Silver Fission Products Makes Nuclear Fuel Safer

  

  Individual TRISO fuel particles at 100um scale. (Credit: Idaho National Laboratory) The long hunt for the location of a rare element within nuclear fuel... Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• U.S. Crude Oil Production Could Reach 10 Million Barrels Per Day by 2040

  

  (Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Annual Energy Outlook 2013)Projected crude oil production in the United States ranges from 6 to 8 million... Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Silicon-Boron Electrode to Increase Li-Ion Batteries’ Capacity

  

  Lithium borosilicid framework (Image: T. Fässler, M. Zeilinger / TUM) The electrode material has a decisive influence on a battery’s capacity. Read more

  Posted on 13 June 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Mosaic Pathways Open Way to Better Lithium-Ion Batteries

  

  Sandia National Laboratories physicist Farid El Gabaly aligns a lithium-iron-phosphate battery electrode sample for chemical characterization with X-ray... Read more

  Posted on 13 June 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Scientists Find Simple Way to Create Gold-Indium Oxide Catalytic Nanoparticles

  

  Brookhaven Lab physicists Peter Sutter, Eli Sutter, and Xiao Tong (left to right) with one of the Center for Functional Nanomaterials instruments used to... Read more

  Posted on 13 June 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• New Picture of Ice Could Revolutionize Gas Hydrates Understanding, Hydrogen...

  

  A fragment of the crystal structure of the new ice is shown where the oxygen atoms are blue and the molecular hydrogen atoms pink. Hydrogen atoms that have... Read more

  Posted on 13 June 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE, SOCIETY

• Robots Will Repair Turbine Blades Faster and Cheaper

  

  A robot automatically restores the damaged sections of a turbine blade. (Credit: Fraunhofer IWF TU Berlin) Almost all electrical power on Earth is produced... Read more

  Posted on 12 June 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Students Test Solar Cells Behavior at High Altitudes

  

  Four undergraduate students from Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science have taken photovoltaic cells somewhat closer to... Read more

  Posted on 12 June 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Halogenated Graphene Catalyst May Replace Platinum in Fuel Cells

  

  Prof. Jong-Beam Baek (center) and his research team. (Credit: UNIST) A group of scientists from the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST),... Read more

  Posted on 12 June 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Microfluidic Test-Bed for Artificial Photosynthesis Testing Developed

  

  In this microfluidic test-bed, a chemically inert wall (red) separates anode from cathode and the channels in which O2 and H2 are generated by splitting water... Read more

  Posted on 12 June 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• EIA Estimates Shale Gas Resources to Be Globally Abundant

  

  Marcellus shale gas-drilling site along PA Route 87, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania. (Credit: Flickr @ Nicholas A. Tonelli http://www.flickr. Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Recent Advances in Battery Technology Review

  

  (Credit: Flickr @ Pete Slater http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnnywashngo/) During the last several months a number of new battery technologies has been... Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Iberdrola to Use UAVs for Power Lines Monitoring

  

  Iberdrola and CDTI have invested in the Arbórea company, a manufacturer of unmanned aerial vehicles used to check the status of the electrical installations,... Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• New Photovoltaic Cell Doubles as Solar Energy Storage System

  

  For solar energy to be really practical, it is important to find a way to store it effectively. Energy from large solar plants can be stored through pumped... Read more

  Posted on 10 June 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Wood-Eating Bug Helps Produce Biofuel from Waste

  

  This shows Limnoria -- the wood-eating gribble. (Credit: Laura Michie, Portsmouth University) Scientists have discovered a new enzyme that could prove an... Read more

  Posted on 10 June 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY