March 12th, 2010
Materials scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are working on a system that uses small amounts of otherwise waste energy to convert water into hydrogen fuel. The process is simple and recycles waste that wouldn’t be used ordinarily.
“This study provides a simple and cost-effective technology for direct water splitting that may generate hydrogen fuels by [...]
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February 19th, 2010
Unless you are living under a rock you know that one o the biggest discussion points over the last decade revolve around finding alternative fuel and energy sources. Recently, scientists in France have been able to generate a chemical energy by use of Photosynthesis. Their discovery created a biofuel cell that might lead to conversion [...]
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November 21st, 2009
Frist off, let’s explain what a “wave energy system” is. At first read you probably think this has something to do with radio, gamma, or whatever type of wave in some sort of
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October 24th, 2009
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has just awarded just over $100 million to 32 plant genome research projects. These projects are designed to to help in the understanding of the plant genome in hopes that they will be able to understand more fully how they react to the environment. The projects are there to find [...]
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April 5th, 2009
Odyssey Moon, a team competing for a $30 million purse in the Google Lunar X Prize contest, officially joined forces with another private space firm Friday to deliver the first greenhouse to the moon as part the “Lunar Oasis” project.
“Imagine a bright flower on a plant in a crystal clear growth chamber on the surface [...]
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October 20th, 2008
Even though the economy certainly isn’t ripe for those that would normally buy solar panels, the attendees at the Solar Power International 2008 were still in a good mood.
“I think there’s a flight to quality and we believe there’s a flight to solar because of that,” said Tom Werner, the CEO of California-based solar [...]
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September 21st, 2008
Two research teams are announcing this month that they have successfully converted sugar-potentially derived from agricultural waste and non-food plants-into gasoline, diesel, jet fuel and a range of other valuable chemicals.
What? Yeah…they are saying that they can get fuel from sugar. A renewable source that many find intriguing as it is something that is in [...]
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September 7th, 2008
It has been quite a while since I contemplated going back to school for further education. With the recent presidential election around the corner I am hearing quite a bit about the quest to find renewable energy sources, and the idea that there is going to be a big push for jobs in alter4native energy. [...]
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August 7th, 2008
Promethan Power Systems is working on a way to use solar panels to create refrigeration with out a generator. It plans to show off a prototype unit, designed specifically for rural areas in India, at the Emerging Technologies conference at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology next month.
If successful, the company’s end product will be a [...]
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July 11th, 2008
*Random sentences about how gas prices are rising, and the need for alternative energy sources goes here*. Now rather than bore you with an intro like the previous line suggests let’s talk about something that NASA is doing, that may actually have some sort of use for us. Scientists have been creating maps using nearly [...]
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