Renewable Energy Magazine reported yesterday that Spain’s photovoltaic industry lobby groups have urged their members to take to the streets to protest the government’s move to retroactively slash subsidies for…
Read MoreLast month we reported on ACerS member Henry Sodano‘s work at Arizona State University with self-healing polymers that mimic the natural healing mechanism found in bones. Based on shape memory…
Read MoreNot every “good” idea that gets submitted to the U.S.’s frontier R&D agencies (DARPA and ARPA-E) gets the gold ring of federal funding. But the DOE/ARPA-E says it has some…
Read MoreA recent paper from GE Global Research and MIT mechanical engineering researchers casts doubt on the effectiveness of superhydrophobic surfaces ability to block ice formation on aircraft, wind turbines, communications…
Read MoreWatch the full episode. See more NOVA. NOVA/PBS now has the first episode of the Making Stuff series online (please note that the folks at NOVA/PBS seem to still be…
Read MoreSpeaking of energy innovators, ARPA-E today released more details about its Energy Innovation Summit scheduled for Feb. 28-March 2, 2011 in Washington, DC. Besides those names that were a given…
Read MoreTwo Germany entities, the Maschinenfabrik Gustav Eirich Company of Hardheim and the European Center for Refractories (ECRef) of Hohr-Grenzhausen have announced the opening of a competition for the Gustav Eirich…
Read MoreI am a week late on getting this news out, so in all likelihood this is old news. Anyway, GE has unveiled the 2011 version of its $200 million Ecomagination…
Read MoreA new story in Science reports that an international team of researchers have been able to turn a non-superconducting form of copper oxide into a superconductor using a strong laser…
Read MoreMicrosoft’s Kinect technology looks like a success, and it looks like Apple and other groups close to Apple are going to tease us with rumors about remote gesture controls in…
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