Energy

Nanoscale Forests And An Artificial Leaf On The Road To Green Energy

An international team of researchers has modified chlorophyll from an alga so that it resembles the extremely efficient light antennae of bacteria. The team was then able to determine the structure of these light antennae. This is the first step to convert ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 29 2009 - 6:11pm

Double Your Gasoline Mileage Now and Improve our Economy

   Its my opinion that the current economic conditions were brought on by high gas prices. I believe if we can consume less fuel we can stabilize the price of gasoline and our economy. If we do nothing we will have contributed to our failing economy. Here ...

Blog Post - Russell Ade - Jun 29 2009 - 8:53pm

Wind Over Water: An Untapped Power Source?

As a kid, there were few things more satisfying to me that being given a helium balloon... and then almost immediately letting it go for the pure enjoyment of seeing it float out of sight into the sky. For some reason, seeing a small balloon set against a ...

Article - Kimberly Crandell - Jul 2 2009 - 2:50pm

New Battery Is Thinner Than A Piece Of Paper- And Can Be Printed Too

A new printable battery that can be produced cost-effectively on a large scale has been developed by a research team led by Prof. Dr. Reinhard Baumann of the Fraunhofer Research Institution for Electronic Nano Systems ENAS in Chemnitz together with colleag ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 2 2009 - 10:27am

T. Boone Pickens Bait and Switch Wind for Gas

lol. Once a oil man always a oil man. T.B. Pickens pulls the plug on his windmill scheme now supporting drilling for natural gas and oil. With over a million supporters of his energy plan based on wind energy he shuts it down and now endorses oil and gas. ...

Blog Post - Russell Ade - Jul 8 2009 - 10:13pm

SunCatcher- Better Dish, Better Solar Energy

Stirling Energy Systems (SES) and Tessera Solar recently unveiled four newly designed solar power collection dishes at Sandia National Laboratories’ National Solar Thermal Test Facility (NSTTF). Sandia’s concentrating solar-thermal power (CSP) team has bee ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 11 2009 - 7:42pm

Understanding The Carbon Cycle- Iron And Manganese In Methane Conversion

Sulfate gets all the attention but iron and manganese compounds may be important role in converting methane to carbon dioxide and eventually carbonates in the Earth's oceans, according to a team of researchers looking at anaerobic sediments. Those sa ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 11 2009 - 8:03pm

Bring Me Nanopillars! With Them I Shall Build More Efficient Solar Cells

Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and UC Berkeley say they have demonstrated a way to fabricate efficient solar cells from low-cost, flexible materials; optically active semiconductors in arrays of nanoscale pillars, each a single crystal, with ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 12 2009 - 10:00am

Science And Oil

Summertime, and the livin' is easy, wrote Ira Gershwin and Du Bose Heyward in 1933. The current gasoline prices are not easy on the budget because they are rising again. According to the New York Times of 8 June 2009: "Gas prices have risen 41 d ...

Article - Hatice Cullingford - Jul 12 2009 - 12:33pm

New Power Plants Get Virtual 3-D Engineering

Designing a new hydroelectric power station can be a laborious task- the pressures, temperatures and fluid flows can be simulated but the actual results outside FEA showbiz graphics will still be columns of numbers or a one-dimensional representation which ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 13 2009 - 12:06pm