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Blog Post - Anonymous - Jan 3 2009 - 7:13am

Photovoltaic Cells Get Up To 10 Percent Efficiency- Which Is A Start

An unfortunate downside to the energy debate is that, when politics get involved, science goes out the window.   The same activist groups that insisted ethanol would be the savior of the environment for 20 years (and were horribly wrong) now insist solar e ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 3 2008 - 11:08am

Reflective Coating On Silicon Solar Cells Boosts Absorption To Over 96 Percent

Harvesting energy from the sun makes terrific sense until you factor in the economics of solar technology efficiency and the environmental impact of manufacturing panels and adding new power lines.  But solar power is clearly the path to future energy inde ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 3 2008 - 4:11pm

Myco-diesel: Fuel From A Patagonian Fungus

A team led by a Montana State University professor has found a fungus that produces a new type of diesel fuel, which they say holds great promise.  Calling the fungus' output "myco-diesel," Gary Strobel and his collaborators describe their i ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 4 2008 - 12:52am

Semiconductor Nanoparticles- Could These Hybrid Materials Make Solar Power Ready For Prime Time?

The Instituto Madrileño de Estudios Avanzados en Nanociencia (IMDEA Nanoscience) and the University of Hamburg have collaborated on the development of composite materials based on semiconductor nanoparticles and carbon nanotubes as functional materials for ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 4 2008 - 10:28am

Hydrogen Alloy 'Tank' Weighs 60 Percent Less Than A Battery

Hydrogen is an ideal solution for cars of the future.   The problem remains storage.   People have a range they want to go (300 miles) before an automobile enhancement can become commercially acceptable.  With hydrogen, that means carrying a tank the size ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 4 2008 - 10:45am

Shrinkage Of Another Kind

Shrinkage is a good thing when you want it to happen. Energy consumption in buildings is a great candidate for shrinkage.  Do you have a building in mind? Two reports (1-2) were published recently to show how to achieve 50% energy savings over the America ...

Article - Hatice Cullingford - Nov 9 2008 - 2:08pm

If Alternative Fuels Do Poorly In Net Energy Terms, Get Rid Of The Net Energy Concept, Says Theory

"Net energy is a (mostly) irrelevant, misleading and dangerous metric," says Professor Bruce Dale, editor-in-chief of Biofuels, Bioresources and Biorefining (Biofpr) in the latest issue of the journal published today. Net energy is a metric by wh ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 8 2008 - 10:27pm

Flexible Charge Pump- AC Power Harvested Straight From The Environment

Researchers have developed a new type of small-scale electric power generator able to produce alternating current through the cyclical stretching and releasing of zinc oxide wires encapsulated in a flexible plastic substrate with two ends bonded.  The new ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 9 2008 - 5:32pm

Making Biodiesel From Waste Using Nature's Own Chemical Plant

Petroleum is the feedstock for many products in the chemical industry but it is becoming increasingly expensive.  Renewable raw materials are an alternative but we quickly learned that, despite the beliefs of activists in the 1980s and 1990s, fuel from foo ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 10 2008 - 3:47pm