Archive for February 2009
Scorching sun + mirrors + graphite = 1 wired Outback town
Via Gizmag, word comes of one Australian town that is to go solar powered, 24-hours a day. How is that…
Read MoreCement is popular . . .
. . . because, for better or worse, it works and is relatively durable, at least on the scale of…
Read MoreDOE’s Chu to unveil plans to modernize electricity grid Wednesday (update II)
Pay attention to this: Tomorrow, Wednesday, February 18, U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu will deliver the opening keynote address at…
Read MoreGreen energy from greenhouse gases: A novel paradigm in mitigating global warming
Grad student Martin Duran and Azad working on the processing of nanoscale ceramic catalysts. (the following is a guest post…
Read MoreNIST’s ‘VERDiCT’ may double concrete’s lifespan
(corrected, courtesy of the comments from Dale Bentz, below) The “verdict” is in – engineers at the National Institute of…
Read MoreDaniel Nocera makes more news with electrolysis gains
Back in August, we noted the work Daniel Nocera a professor of chemistry at MIT, who is leading has developed…
Read MoreMS&T 2008 award lectures
The American Ceramic Society has now posted videos of four lectures presented last October as part of the Society’s annual…
Read MorePill-shaped precipitates
Everyone who has paid their dues in a chem lab is familiar with processes that precipitate materials shaped as spheres,…
Read MoreSCHOTT solar stairway generates power, pizzazz and savings!
SCHOTT, one of the world’s largest and most innovative glassmakers, reports the accomplishment of another first – the combination of solar…
Read MoreChinese groups honor U.S. ceramist for ‘green’ ceramics, space-repair system
A scientist at the Ohio Aerospace Institute has been chosen by two major Chinese scientific groups to receive an award…
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