Glass manufacturing, at least fiberglass production, may be seeing signs of improving. PPG Industries just announced that it has restarted a furnace at its facility in Shelby, N.C. The restart…
Read MoreOver 8,200 people have made online reservations in the past month for the upcoming Nissan Leaf EV, and for good reason. Set to be released this year, the $33,000 vehicle…
Read MoreThis just in: At a White House Energy Innovation meeting today, Under Secretary of Energy Kristina Johnson announced that $60 million in funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act…
Read MoreA new nanotechnology center with roots that extend to Alfred University and Corning Inc, has just opened in Alfred, N.Y. The NanoMaterials Innovation Center, a subsidiary of Alfred Technology Resources…
Read MoreThe DOE is giving a total of $13 million to 48 industrial energy-efficiency R&D projects, many of which will have either a direct bearing on ceramic and cementitious materials development…
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Earlier this year, as part of ACerS’s Electronic Materials and Applications conference, Dave Danielson, from ARPA-E, made a valuable keynote presentation about ARPA-E funding interests and how ceramists and other…
Read MoreACerS’ Ceramic Leadership Summit is fast approaching. Unlike purely technical meetings, the Ceramic Summit fosters a participative environments that delivers the opportunity to discuss, listen and learn with some of…
Read MoreThe Offshore Technology Conference is occurring this week and I expect it isn’t exactly the best of times. I don’t mean this post as an effort to pile on BP.…
Read MoreI continue to be really impressed with 1366 Technologies’ technical work and and business strategy. Now DOE has put together a short (4 minutes) video about 1366’s Direct Wafer Technology…
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