Energy

Grass Biofuel Reduces Our Carbon Footprint

Converting forests or fields to biofuel crops can increase or decrease greenhouse gas emissions, depending on where – and which – biofuel crops are used according to researchers at University of Illinois.  Scientists analyzed data from dozens of studies to ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2010 - 6:55pm

New Green Energy Plans Would Create 120 Green Tons Of Wood Demand

RISI today through its Wood Biomass Market Report, indicated that woodfiber will play a major role in any new green energy spending plans in the U.S. The Report stated that as of Dec. 12, estimates from the ever-expanding federal stimulus package suggest ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 12 2008 - 1:16am

Energy Harvesting Radios Never Need A Battery Change

If changing the batteries in the remote control or smoke detector seems like a chore, imagine having to change hundreds of batteries in sensors scattered across a busy bridge.  That's why Kansas State University engineers are helping a semiconductor m ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 16 2008 - 12:27pm

Batteries Included- Forever- With New USB Chargeable Batteries

A British company says they have a solution to the over 22,000 tons of hazardous waste that ends up in UK landfills annually from Alkaline batteries that are thrown away after being used in toys and gadgets, creating a toxic problem for hundreds of years. ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 28 2008 - 2:47am

Wave Energy Tries To Navigate Troubled Waters

New technology is often called 'the wave of the future' but it couldn't be any more literal in the case of wave energy.   Wave energy can be a large, widespread renewable resource that is environmentally benign and readily scalable. In some ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 16 2008 - 1:58pm

New Ideas To Harness Wave Power

As early as 1890, people were beginning to think about harnessing the power of the ocean. During the twenty-year span between 1890 and 1910, there were wave power generation stations built all along the Southern California coast. The advent of cheap petrol ...

Article - Chris Rollins - Dec 16 2008 - 11:14pm

Green, But Not Too Green- Unicellular Algae Growing Into Biofuel Of The Future

In pursuing cleaner energy there is such a thing as being too green. Unicellular microalgae, for instance, can be considered too green. In a paper in a special energy issue of Optics Express, scientists at the University of California, Berkeley describe a ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 17 2008 - 10:27am

Using E Coli To Make Better Biofuels

For the first time, researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have successfully pushed nature beyond its limits by genetically modifying Escherichia coli, a bacterium often associated with food poisoning, to produce un ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 18 2008 - 3:07pm

Used Coffee Grounds Equals Biofuel?

Researchers in Nevada are reporting that waste coffee grounds can provide a cheap, abundant, and environmentally friendly source of biodiesel fuel for powering cars and trucks. Their study appears in the current online issue of ACS' Journal of Agricul ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 22 2008 - 2:51am

What Is The State Of Solid State LED Lighting?

It seems like they're already everywhere- if you look down at your keyboard, one is providing the little green indicator for your Num Lock key, while another may be frantically blinking to inform you of your waiting voice mail. On your next drive, cha ...

Article - Chris Rollins - Jul 30 2012 - 8:38pm