I’m dreading my next electricity bill. With this heat wave, I don’t think my AC unit has stopped running once in the past week. NREL may have developed an AC…
Read MoreThe American Physical Society says it will be pushing congressional leaders to increase research investments in energy-efficiency technologies. The APS says that having a broad portfolio of energy-efficiency options is…
Read MoreAccording to California solar power advocacy group Sunpluggers.com, wind turbines may be installed among the photovoltaic panels of a planned PV power plant in Palm Springs, Calif. This would be…
Read MoreWhile working on her master’s degree, University of Rhode Island grad student Michelle Pelletier says she has come up with an effective and inexpensive method of creating self-healing concrete using…
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Richard Brow will tell you he likes everything about glass science, art and processing. Brow, an ACerS Fellow and Curator’s Professor of Ceramic Engineering at Missouri University of Science &…
Read MoreThe AP is reporting that there have been numerous problems and failures related to the use of cement in sealing oil wells in the Gulf of Mexico. One current theory…
Read MoreStudents from Missouri University of Science and Technology will bring sustainable, clean water to portions of rural Bolivia this summer. Students with the university’s Engineers Without Borders chapter are making…
Read MoreGlass 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 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…
Read MoreArchitects and engineers working at Armstrong American State University in Savannah, Ga., have installed an aesthetically pleasing ceramic water-cooling tower for the school’s student Union and Memorial College Center that…
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