Energy

Durban Conference: Green house gas mitigation: Checking of deforestation: Planting fuels.

Green house gas mitigation has become a business and unfortunately different interests clash in this manner. Asking for funds? Global fund? Some more offices? Some more five star conferences with executives traveling first class. Spending lavish money on ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Nov 28 2011 - 9:38pm

Energy And The Great Experiment

For most of human history, technology changed very little during a person’s lifetime. Certainty, their life was not constant with the hard agricultural life being interrupted by war, disease, and famine. However, very few new technologies would come into t ...

Article - David LePoire - Dec 3 2011 - 8:27pm

Are Environmental Issues Piling Up or Slowing Down?

Energy use and environmental sustainability are deeply entwined. The impact of environmental degradation has been an important factor in the development and decline of civilizations. It has been suggested that many agricultural societies collapsed by overe ...

Blog Post - David LePoire - Dec 3 2011 - 8:10pm

Lighting Up Cold War Targets

The energy from those Russian warheads I feared as a child is coming to me right now. However, it is coming at a much slower and more controlled rate than I had originally feared. In fact, that energy is lighting the office and allowing me to write this. I ...

Blog Post - David LePoire - Dec 16 2011 - 2:47pm

Driving in Circles

Driving in Circles People often wonder whether the world would be able to do something about its dependence on oil and its effects on the environment. A child asked the following question on Hidden Science (a mobile phone app developed by Orange Telecom a ...

Blog Post - Animesh Chatterjee - Dec 23 2011 - 11:07am

Just Another Nose Hair: Tiny Wires Collect Power From Human Breath

Breathe in, Breathe out, charge your implant. It sounds like a dream, but researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison report that the simple act of human breath can create enough energy to power a small biomedical device. ...

Article - Jenny Morber - Jan 7 2012 - 1:38am

Fight The Snobbery- Maybe Solar Efficiency Is Good Enough

Solar photovoltaic (PV) mass-market polycrystalline panels are typically about 15% efficiency. Pretty terrible, right?  Maybe, maybe not.   Cars- both gasoline and electric vehicles, despite what the electric car hype machine claims- are only slightly more ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 9 2012 - 8:41pm

Creative Energy: Leveraging Husk Power In India

In Bihar, one of the poorest states in India, 85 percent of people are not connected to the electricity grid so households use kerosene lamps when they can afford it and businesses use expensive and dirty diesel generators. Some view this 'energy pov ...

Article - Stephanie Hanson - Jan 11 2012 - 9:55pm

New Online Tools For Solar Site Prospecting And Bankable Photovoltaic Yield Assessment

ABU DHABI, UAE, January 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/-- From now planning of solar power plants and photovoltaic systems in the Middle East and North Africa is easy, fast and accurate as never before. GeoModel Solar, a leading international provider of solar reso ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Jan 17 2012 - 5:30pm

Quantum Dots May Boost Solar Efficiency 45 Percent

If you don't think the government should be artificially mandating winners and losers among clean energy companies with artificial subsidies, don't let that turn you off of basic research, where the real improvement in future clean energy will be ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 22 2012 - 3:51pm