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MIT Researchers Increase Ultracapacitor Performance by 45 Percent
Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Energy Storage, Uncategorized on October 13, 2011
Yi Cui and Zhenan Bao from the University of Stanford have developed an electrode manufacturing technique that could improve the capacity of ultra-capacitors by 20 to 45 percent and make them compete with much more expensive batteries currently used in electric cars. The two researchers and the team they led used managanese oxide electrodes (MnO), [...]
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Wake Forest's Plastic Fiber Solar Cells Doubling Energy Output of Flat Ones
Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Solar Power, Uncategorized on April 10, 2010
Solar cells get efficient as time goes, but there are methods to improve the performance of current ones, made with older technologies. Wake Forest Center for Nanotechnology has just received a patent for a new solar cell technology that can double the energy production of current silicon flat cells at highly reduced costs.
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Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Got Better by Using Ionic Salts
Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Solar Power, Uncategorized on October 14, 2009
A group of researchers from the Universidad Pablo de Olavide, in Seville, Spain, led by Juan Antonio Anta, are working on optimizing Grätzel solar cells by incorporating ionic salts, known as green solvents, with a view to preventing evaporation of the liquid compounds and the consequent reduction in efficiency.
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New Electronic Circuit Cooling System Offers Brighter Electric Car Perspectives
Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Electric Vehicles, Hybrid vehicles, Uncategorized on September 30, 2009
Researchers from Purdue University discovered precisely how fluid boils in capilary cooling sytems, and that by designing a system by using those rules they got a much more efficient heat transfer between the object to be cooled and the liquid.
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Atlantic City Convention Center Installed 2.4 MW Solar Powered Rooftop
Posted by Cristi in Solar Power, Uncategorized on March 28, 2009
13,400 modules, manufactured by the Chinese company Trina Solar, provide 2,4 MW at peak capacity, equivalent to the needs of 280 American houses. The energy generated will reduce the building’s electricity bills with 25% and in it’s lifetime of 20 years the solar panels will save about $4.4 million.
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New Membrane by Chinese Scientist Can Make Fuel Cells Cheaper
Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Uncategorized on December 17, 2008
Currently, platinum is used as a catalyst in hydrogen fuel cells, making them so expensive and hence unappetizing to customers. Lin Zhang, a Chinese scientist, has discovered a membrane that could make the usage of platinum history, and make fuel cells cheaper than ever.
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Your Home`s Excess Heat Could Get Recovered by New Cheap Machine
Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Uncategorized on November 24, 2008
This article doesn’t talk about huge producers of energy, or doesn’t mention the use of any prime matter to create energy, but instead it focuses on recycled one. Ener-G-Rotors, a company based in Schenectady, NY, is developing a heat recycler that can work with lower quantities of heat, under 150°C, unlike those of the competitors, aimed only to the higher-class, industrial energy producing stations.
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Biofuels are Bad for Poor Countries – they Cause Starvation on Long Term
Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Biodiesel, Uncategorized on June 26, 2008
The aid agency Oxfam said Wednesday that the all-beloved biofuels are to be blamed for 30% of the increase in food prices worldwide, pushing 30 million people around the globe into poverty.
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Nanosolar's Flexible Solar Panels – a GigaWatt Promise Kept
Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Solar Power, Uncategorized, Video on June 19, 2008
Remember Nanosolar? I wrote on article on them a few months ago, telling that they invented a light sensitive thin layer, that could be imprinted on various flexible surfaces and then used as solar batteries. They kept their word to it.
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Blogger gets 72 mpg from stock Euro Honda Civic diesel
Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Uncategorized on February 20, 2008
What we’re going to do is hypermile these cars. Although, much like Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men, we’re not sure you can handle the truth. To be perfectly honest, we were shocked ourselves. Shocked and giddy, read more | digg story
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