Credit: NRDC. A few weeks ago, GreenTechMedia put together a list (15 PowerPoint slides that shook the Earth) of what they thought were the most significant energy-related PowerPoint slides. They…
Read MoreI’m a huge fan of natural wood flooring. The look is classic and elegant. However, the wood floors in my house are far from elegant. Thanks to my dog, Sam,…
Read MoreMakani’s Airborne Wind Turbine (above) project is being funded by a new ARPA-E grant. Credit: Makani. Over the past few days, the DOE has announced nearly $67 million in new…
Read MoreDel Day is receiving the 2010 Phoenix Award Glass for hisdevelopment of radioactive glass microspheres. Delbert Day, a past president of ACerS, will be given the 2010 Phoenix Award as…
Read MoreAccording to a press release, Oak Ridge researchers have developed a new type of scanning probe microscopy called electrochemical strain microscopy that examines the movement of Li-ions through a battery’s…
Read MoreAlthough this looks like someone is unleashing the power of a hose full of glow stick fluid, this is actually water. For about $300, the people who made this video…
Read MoreThis filament containing about 30 million carbon nanotubes absorbs energy from the sun as photons and then re-emits photons of lower energy, creating the fluorescence seen here. The red regions…
Read MoreA vertical-axis turbine. (Credit: Clean Green Energy.) Three mid-size (200-500 kilowatts) wind energy technologies are getting a boost from the DOE. The agency announced today that Clean Green Energy, Northern…
Read MoreSchematic of proposed CO2 underground storage by Spectra Energy in western Canada. With several proposals related to the conversion of sequestered CO2 to carbonates being considered by the science community,…
Read MoreA Cornell University professor of psychology has a new approach to fostering networking among Latin American scientists and their North American colleagues: a special free bilingual website named CienciAmérican (Science…
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