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• ‘Atomic Ivan’ Wins Uranium Festival Award

  

  A “Radioactive monster” from the “Atomic Ivan” movie. In fact, the film is about a relationship between two young physicists working at a nuclear power plant... Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Hot Time for Cold Climate Wind Energy

  

  Capacity in cold climate (up to end 2012) and forecasted (2012–2017) in MW View of World (Source: BTM World Market Update 2012, Navigant Research, 2013) A recen... Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Electron Microscopy Imaging Solves LED Efficiency Mystery

  

  CFN's Kim Kisslinger, seen here with a focused-ion beam instrument, reduced the InGaN samples to a thickness of just 20 nanometers to prepare them for electron... Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Tesla Expands Supercharger Network, Transcontinental Coverage Planned

  

  Tesla Motors announced yesterday a significant expansion of the Tesla Supercharger network—a network of 480-volt fast charging stations developed to allow the... Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Reliable Electricity Generation Crucial for Disaster Relief

  

  Members of the Oklahoma National Guard's 63rd Civil Support Team conduct search and rescue operations in response to the May 20, 2013, EF-5 tornado that ripped... Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Novel Sponge-Like Material Could Improve Petroleum Refining

  

  Oil refinery in Anacortes, Washington after dark with Mt. Baker in the background. (Credit: Flickr @ RVWithTito http://www.flickr. Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• First Offshore Wind Turbine in Spain Successfully Installed

  

  Gamesa's blade manufacturing facility in Albacete, Spain (Credit: Gamesa) On May 28, Gamesa, a Spanish wind turbine manufacturer, has completed assembly of the... Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Dutch Biomass Gasification Technology Goes Global

  

  Wood chippings can be converted into high energy gas using the MILENA gasification process. (Credit: Flickr @ FunkBrothers http://www.flickr. Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• New Catalysts Will Get Cellphones Running on Acid

  

  A bottle of formic acid and a graduated cylinder showing the appearance of formic acid as a liquid. Label on the bottle says (translated from Serbian): "Formic... Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• BASF, Total Revamp Port Arthur Steam Cracker to Process Ethane

  

  Steam cracker II, the largest individual plant at BASF's Ludwigshafen site, covers a surface area of about 64,000 square meters. Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• New Bus Fuel Cell Durability Test Developed

  

  A team of SFU student researchers is at work at Ballard Power Systems in Burnaby carrying out tests to improve fuel cell durability. Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• New Group of Crystals Will Make LED Light Warmer

  

  ORNL scientists are using x-ray diffraction analysis to study nanocrystals (Credit: ORNL) Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory are studying a new group o... Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Solar Research Center to Be Built in Morocco

  

  Photovoltaic micro-plants by Isofoton in Morocco (Credit: Isofoton.es and http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Isofoton_Marruecos. Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Transparent Graphene Electrode Makes Flexible Solar Cells Possible

  In a recent article published in journal Advanced Functional Materials, researchers describe a new graphene-coated transparent electrode made of silver... Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• U.S. Army Develops Universal Battery Charger

  

  A collaborative effort between the Army Research Laboratory (ARL), Project Manager Soldier Warrior (PM SWAR), the Communications-Electronics Command Logistics... Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• World’s Largest Ocean Energy Site Approved in Scotland

  

  Aquamarine Power—a wave energy company, which was founded in 2005 to commercialize a wave energy device concept known as the Oyster wave energy converter—has... Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Los Alamos Director Concerned About Electrical Grid Cybersecurity

  

  Los Alamos National Laboratory Director Charlie McMillan told a gathering of energy executives last week that securing the electrical grid is a major concern no... Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Eight More Companies Call for Revitalized EU Energy Policy

  

  Iberdola chairman, Ignacio Galan (right), and the head of Galicia’s regional government, Alberto Nuñez Feijoo, unveiled a plaque to commemorate the... Read more

  Posted on 25 May 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Study Proposes Storing Renewable Energy in Rocks

  

  Compressed Air Energy Storage: Columbia Hills Site (left) and Yakima Minerals Site (Source: “Techno-economic Performance Evaluation of Compressed Air Energy... Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Algae Can Cover One-Twelfth of U.S. Annual Fuel Consumption

  

  An algae bloom in North Carolina, a region of the country equipped for broad-scale algae growth. (Photo courtesy of Ildar Sagdejev... Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY