Archive for May 2009
Are CFLs already obsolete?
Warner Philips, founder of Lemnis Lighting Co. in The Netherlands, claims “CFLs are officially an outdated technology. You can’t recycle…
Read MoreConcrete’s role as CO2 absorber may be underestimated
The new (June) issue of the Journal of Environmental Engineering is all about “Recent Developments in CO2 Emission Control Technology…
Read MoreDOE ups Smart Grid grants by a factor of 10, releases initial standards
With the big Smart-Grid summit underway, the DOE and DOC have has announced three developments related to its big Smart…
Read MoreSmart Grid workshop outline available
The “Smart Grid Standards Interoperability Interim Roadmap Workshop” is taking place Tuesday and Wednesday (May 19-20). For anyone interested, a…
Read MoreSmart Grid summit is a go next week
The DOE says a meeting of “40 business leaders from the electric utility, manufacturing, telecommunications and information technology industries” is…
Read More71 university-based nuclear projects get DOE funding
The DOE says it is going to be shipping off $44 million over the next three years to 31 schools…
Read MoreTop “Pipeline Power” schools
If you do a Google search of “top ten,” you get more than 90 million hits – from David Letterman,…
Read MoreSchott combines CSP and PV production in new New Mexico solar plant
Schott Solar this week cut the ribbon on new $100 million facility in Albuquerque to produce large-scale concentrated solar power…
Read MorePrintable supercapacitors
A UCLA team has reported in Nano Letters that it has “printed” a supercapacitor for the first time. The group,…
Read MoreBluegrass battery consortium
The state of Kentucky, the University of Kentucky, the University of Louisville and the Argonne National Lab have announced that…
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