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Gaming computers offer huge, untapped energy savings potential
Sep 03, 2015 (SPX)
In the world of computer gaming, bragging rights are accorded to those who can boast of blazing-fast graphics cards, the most powerful processors, the highest-r...
Corvus Energy tests lithium ion battery in critical fire event
Sep 02, 2015 (SPX)
Testing of Corvus battery technology was conducted over a three week period at the SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden in the city of Boras. The tests wer...
Hybrid glasses could revolutionize gas storage
Aug 31, 2015 (SPX)
A new method of manufacturing glass could lead to the production of 'designer glasses' with applications in advanced photonics, whilst also facilitating industr...
Researcher develops cheaper, better LED technology
Aug 31, 2015 (SPX)
A Florida State University engineering professor has developed a new highly efficient and low cost light emitting diode that could help spur more widespread ado...
Australia's coal city backs green future
Aug 26, 2015 (AFP)
Australia's city of Newcastle, which claims to be the world's biggest coal export port, said Wednesday it will pull money out of fossil fuel industries and inve...
Novel nanostructures for efficient long-range energy transport
Aug 25, 2015 (SPX)
The conversion of sunlight into electricity at low cost becomes increasingly important to meet the world's fast growing energy consumption. This task requires t...
Berkeley releases comprehensive analysis of electricity reliability trends
Aug 25, 2015 (SPX)
In the most comprehensive analysis of electricity reliability trends in the United States, researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) a...
New easily fabricated, flexible and wearable white-light LED
Aug 21, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers from National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan have created highly flexible, efficient white LEDs with potential use in wearable displays and non-flat ...
Making hydrogen fuel from water and visible light highly efficient
Aug 21, 2015 (SPX)
Mimicking photosynthesis is not easy. The bottleneck of artificial photosynthesis is visible light as converting it into other energy is not efficient. Research...
New technology can expand LED lighting
Aug 20, 2015 (SPX)
Highly efficient, light-emitting diodes (LEDs) could slash the world's electricity consumption. They are already sold in stores, but more widespread adoption of...
NASA funds development of a better battery for space exploration
Aug 20, 2015 (SPX)
A research team from the University of Maryland Energy Research Center (UMERC) has been awarded $1 million in NASA funding for its Garnet Electrolyte Based Safe...
Scotland examines next steps after coal plant closure
Aug 18, 2015 (UPI)
The Scottish government said Tuesday it was setting up a panel to look into the impact of the closure of the Longannet coal power plant, the country's last. "Sc...
Reducing human health impacts from power statons
Aug 18, 2015 (SPX)
By combining information about power plant operation with real-time air quality predictions, researchers have created a new capability to minimize the human hea...
Drexel engineers 'sandwich' atomic layers to make new materials for energy storage
Aug 18, 2015 (SPX)
The scientists whose job it is to test the limits of what nature - specifically chemistry - will allow to exist, just set up shop on some new real estate on the...
New ORNL hybrid microscope offers unparalleled capabilities
Aug 14, 2015 (SPX)
A microscope being developed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory will allow scientists studying biological and synthetic materials to si...
NASA Selects Proposals to Build Better Batteries for Space Exploration
Aug 14, 2015 (SPX)
NASA's Game Changing Development (GCD) program has selected two proposals for Phase II awards targeted toward developing new energy storage technologies to repl...
Helping Siri hear through a cocktail party
Aug 14, 2015 (SPX)
People trying to talk to Siri may soon no longer have to look like they're about to eat their iPhones, thanks to a new technology demonstration that solves the ...
New research may enhance display and LED lighting technology
Aug 14, 2015 (SPX)
Recently, quantum dots (QDs)--nano-sized semiconductor particles that produce bright, sharp, color light--have moved from the research lab into commercial produ...
Two spin liquids square off in an iron-based superconductor
Aug 07, 2015 (SPX)
Despite a quarter-century of research since the discovery of the first high-temperature superconductors, scientists still don't have a clear picture of how thes...
'Yolks' and 'shells' improve rechargeable batteries
Aug 07, 2015 (SPX)
One big problem faced by electrodes in rechargeable batteries, as they go through repeated cycles of charging and discharging, is that they must expand and shri...
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