Credit: ACerS Bulletin/Reginald DesRoches It’s nearly the one-year anniversary of the huge earthquake that crumbled Port-au-Prince and other parts of Haiti, and, unfortunately, reconstruction has taken place only on a…
Read MoreToilets in the kitchen isn’t quite as unsanitary as it sounds. Fireclay Tile has introduced its Debris Collection, which is made from over 60 percent recycled toilets, more than 50…
Read MoreThe DOE announced the finalization of a $17.1 million loan guarantee for AES Westover’s energy storage facility in N.Y. A123 Systems will supply advanced Li-ion battery cells for a 20…
Read MoreSEM of curved graphene sheets (scale bar- 10 µm). Credit: Nano Letters, C. Liu, Zhenning Yu, David Neff, Aruna Zhamu and Bor Z. Jang. A recent paper by a group…
Read MoreGreentech Media has published a year-end list of profitable and unprofitable fuel cell firms. The real kicker is that the “profitable” list contains no entries. Taken directly from Greentech Media’s…
Read MoreChinese rare earth exports, 2009-2011, in metric tons: |  2009/H1: 21,728 tons ||| 2010/H1: 22,282 tons ||| 2011/H1: 14,446 tons |  2009/H2: 28,417 tons 2010/H2: 7,976 tons | 2011/H2: ?…
Read MoreAccording to a NPR report, Tesla Motors shares dropped a dramatic 15 percent on Monday. Yesterday was the first day company insiders and early investors were allowed to sell their…
Read MoreWhat’s shown here is the world’s smallest periodic table that’s been etched on a human hair. Created by the experts at the University of Nottingham’s Nanotechnology and Nanoscience Centre, the…
Read MoreResearchers have developed a prototype device that directly converts sun rays into fuels that can be stored. The BBC reports that the devices uses a quartz window and cavity to…
Read MoreMolycorp’s Mountain Pass mine. Credit: Wikipedia Commons Apparently the DOE’s release of its first Critical Materials Strategy was one in a series of announcements about how various companies and countries…
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