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• Simple Upgrade Significantly Lowers CO Emissions From Portable Generators

  

  Honda EM6500S electric generator widely used for home back up power Portable electric generators retrofitted with off-the-shelf hardware by the University of... Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• U.S. Department of Energy Invests in Nuclear Fuel Storage Research

  

  Image of dry cask transported and placed on concrete pad at nuclear plant site. (Credit: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission) U.S. Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• GM Starts Manufacturing Electric Motors for New Chevrolet Spark EV

  

  General Motors celebrates being the first domestic automaker to build electric motors and drive units in the United States Tuesday, April 16, 2013 at its... Read more

  Posted on 18 April 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Cellphone Microbattery That Can Jump-Start a Car Developed

  

  Ions flow between three-dimensional micro-electrodes in a lithium ion battery. (Image courtesy of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology)... Read more

  Posted on 18 April 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Too Much Energy Efficiency Can Be Hazardous to Your Health

  

  Too much energy efficiency can be hazardous to your health, at least when energy saving measures are not thought through properly. Read more

  Posted on 18 April 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• PowerPot Transforms Campfire Into Power Plant

  

  The PowerPot uses thermoelectric energy to turn heat and water into electricity. The PowerPot uses no moving parts and can charge a cellphone in 60-90 minutes. Read more

  Posted on 18 April 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• New Battery Charger for Medical Implants Developed in Portugal

  

  A pacemaker device and an implantable coil prototype (Credit: MIT Portugal) António Abreu, a Sustainable Energy Systems PhD Student under the MIT Portugal... Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Dry Cooling Project for Thermal Power Stations Receives ARPA-E Award

  

  Mohave Generating Station, a 1,580 MW thermal power station near Laughlin, Nevada fuelled by coal (Credit: Kjkolb, Wikimedia Commons) According to the U.S. Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Researcher Makes Pebble Bed Reactors Less of a Black Box

  

  Dr. Muthanna Al-Dahhan (Credit: Missouri University of Science and Technology) One of the most important criticisms of pebble bed reactor design is that it is... Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Green Algae Could Produce Hydrogen Efficiently

  

  Scanning electron microscope image, showing an example of green algae, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. (Credit: Dartmouth Electron Microscope Facility, Dartmouth... Read more

  Posted on 16 April 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Natural Gas Plants to Benefit From Solar Power

  

  A close-up look of PNNL’s concentrating solar power system for natural gas power plants. (Credit: PNNL) A new system developed at the U.S. Read more

  Posted on 16 April 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Smaller Cities in China Will Generate Energy Form Solid Waste

  

  A frame from the Beijing Besieged by Waste (2011) documentary film. (Credit: dGenerate Films) The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is extending $200 million in loan... Read more

  Posted on 16 April 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Three Teams Install Cryostat Base for JT60 Tokamak in Japan

  

  Guests at JT60-SA’s first component ceremony are dwarfed by the huge circular cryostat base. (Credit: EFDA) Clutching 2.5 metre long spanners, three teams of... Read more

  Posted on 16 April 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Some Lithium-Ion Batteries Actually Do Have Memory Effect, Study Finds

  

  Professor Petr Novak, Head of the Electrochemical Energy Storage Section, and co-author of this study. (Source: Scanderbeg Sauer Photography) Contrary to popula... Read more

  Posted on 15 April 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Cadillac ELR Features New Option for Regenerative Braking

  

  The ELR is Cadillac's first electric-powered vehicle and goes on sale in early 2014. (Credit: General Motors) Cadillac’s 2014 extended range electric vehicle... Read more

  Posted on 15 April 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• New Material for Rapid Energy Storage and Release Developed

  

  Illustration of form of nobium oxide synthesized by UCLA researchers (UCLA/Nature Materials) A new material developed by a group of UCLA scientists could... Read more

  Posted on 15 April 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Southern Hemisphere’s Biggest Wind Farm Opens

  

  Australia’s 420 MW Macarthur Wind Farm, largest in the Southern Hemisphere, featuring Vestas V112-3.0 MW turbines officially opened last Friday. Read more

  Posted on 15 April 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• ‘Halo’ Solar House Being Built in Sweden

  

  The gate of Chalmers, Gibraltar Campus (Credit: Wikipedia) A team from the Chalmers University of Technology is building a solar-powered house for the Solar... Read more

  Posted on 15 April 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• EIA Launches Probably the Best Interactive Energy Data Portal Yet

  

  (Credit: EIA) The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) has launched a new section of its website focusing on interactive energy data. Found at www.eia. Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Method for Increasing Geothermal Well Power Output Successfully Applied

  

  20MW binary power plant by Ormat at Steamboat Springs, Nevada, USA. (Source: Rjglewis, Wikimedia Commons) U.S. Department of Energy, Ormat Technologies, Inc. an... Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY