Research underway to improve wind, solar energy storage
August 31st, 2009 | by pwray@ceramics.org
The latest effort to store clean power from wind and solar energy resources comes from California, where a leading utility …
Monthly Archives: August 2009
Solar power comes to Cairo’s slums
August 31st, 2009 | by pwray@ceramics.org
The National Geographic News has an interesting story about a project in Cairo, Egypt, that is successfully introducing solar power …Friday federal funding facts
August 29th, 2009 | by pwray@ceramics.org
The administration was a little slow in posting their updates yesterday, so that’s why there wasn’t a post about this …A boost for small nuclear reactors
August 29th, 2009 | by pwray@ceramics.org
Western Troy Capital Resources announced that it plans to form a wholly owned private corporation to provide small nuclear reactor …Researchers find new clues for high-temp superconductivity
August 28th, 2009 | by pwray@ceramics.org
For a while now, some scientists have thought that conditions necessary for superconductivity at higher temperatures exist. Now, a paper …Chemical reaction weakening concrete bridges
August 27th, 2009 | by pwray@ceramics.org
The Houston Chronicle reports that the insides of some bridges and other concrete structures in the state, and elsewhere in …NIST develops low-cost, ultra-sensitive infrared spectrometer
August 27th, 2009 | by pwray@ceramics.org
The good folks at the National Institute of Standards and Technology say they have a new method for measuring light …Spanish tiles go solar
August 26th, 2009 | by pwray@ceramics.org
With this August heat we have solar on the mind! Here is another interesting advancement in solar cell technology, brought …