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 More[flash https://ceramics.org/ceramictechtoday/wp-content/video/tesla.flv mode=1 f={image=/ceramictechtoday/wp-content/video/tesla.jpg}] Last Friday I was working out of South Boston, and after being cooped up in a hotel room most of the day I decided to head…
Read MoreToday the Administration announced that the DOE agreed to guarantee large loans for two separate solar power equipment makers, Abengoa Solar and Abound Solar Manufacturing. The Abengoa project involves using…
Read MoreIt’s great to see that a large number of schools that we reference in this blog made it to Bloomberg BusinessWeek‘s new list of the top 25 “best bargain” universities,…
Read MorePostdoc hell, circa 1996. What a laugh riot it must have been working for this guy at Caltech. ‘In addition to the usual work-day schedule, I expect all of the…
Read MoreCoorsTek announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to purchase the advanced ceramics business of Saint-Gobain for $245 million. Saint-Gobain Advanced Ceramics has facilities in Europe, North America, South…
Read MoreA quartet of researchers from Italy and Germany have published an fascinating overview of polymer-derived ceramics in the most recent edition of JACerS. Paolo Colombo, Gabriela Mera, Ralf Riedel and…
Read MoreFor two students who are used to attending technical conferences like MS&T and ICACC, the experience at the first Ceramic Leadership Summit was an exciting departure from the conference norm.…
Read MoreAccording to a DOE press release, field tests have shown that using carbon dioxide in an oil recovery method dubbed “huff-and-puff” can help assess the carbon sequestration potential of geologic…
Read MoreShinobu Fujihara, professor of engineering at Keio University (Japan), oversees a lab that has been investigating ceramic-based optical energy materials science. For example, some of the work involves the use…
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