Posts Tagged environment

Research Shows How Trees Adapt to Sequester Carbon Efficiently Even in Low Light Conditions

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Green News on November 16, 2011

A team of Czech researchers have recently published a paper that shows how forests adapt to various lighting scenarios and how those plants living inside dense canopies in jungles succeed increasing their carbon intake even in cloudy conditions. The paper has been published in the British Ecological Society’s Functional Ecology. Although one would normally think [...]

Nuclear Power Surpassed By Renewables In 2011

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Nuclear Power on July 7, 2011

While some political forces in the U.S. still press for funding more nuclear power more, renewable energy production has exceeded nuclear during the first three months of 2011.

Ratio Between Black Carbon and Sulphates in Atmosphere Crucial to Global Warming

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Global Dimming, Global Warming on July 30, 2010

Black carbons are emitted from diesel exhausts and burned biomass and are considered an environmental and health hazard all over the world. Besides the fact that they favor global dimming, black carbons also attract heat.

Research: Postponing 5 O'Clock Tea By 1 Hour Could Offer Huge CO2 Savings

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Green News on June 27, 2010

You surely remember how it’s like in winter: you wake up, it’s dark, you turn the lights on. When you go to work, there’s finally more light, but when you return at around 5, say, it’s dark again, and you feel like you’ve been missing the whole day. But that’s not the point. The idea is that you consume much more electricity and resources if your schedule doesn’t match the daylight.

New Enzyme Allows Plants to Consume More CO2 and Save Water

Posted by Mihai Sandru in Experiments, Global Warming on December 18, 2009

Scientists at the University of California San Diego have discovered new plant enzymes that can allow plants to save water while consuming more CO2 from the atmosphere. The enzyme causes the plants to react to CO2 and change how they use their pores and by modifying the enzyme, scientists believe that could be developed more CO2- and drought-tolerant crops.

E85 Ethanol Increases Pollution and Risk of Human Diseases

Posted by Cristi in Ethanol on December 16, 2009

Researches from Stanford University have recently published a study on ethanol fuel and its influence over human health. Compared to pure gasoline usage, ethanol increases health problems because of cancer-chemical formation.

Novotech's System Generates Renewable Energy from Asphalt

Posted by Mihai Sandru in Thermoelectric on October 27, 2009

Scientists at Novotech and two Massachusetts universities are working to create a new system that could channel heat from asphalt and other paving materials into clean and usable energy.

Toyota Launching EV Charging Station at Tokyo Motor Show

Posted by Cristi in Car industry, Electric Vehicles, Energy Storage on October 27, 2009

This year’s Tokyo Motor Show was dominated by the Nippon market, Alpina and Lotus being the only foreigners with a stand at the show. Big companies like Daihatsu, Honda, Toyota, Suzuki, Nissan and Mitsubishi presented a lot of new concepts and hybrid or electric cars.

Oceanlinx Prepares to Deploy 2.5MW Tidal Power System Near Sydney

Posted by Cristi in Wave power on October 26, 2009

Engineers are performing the last tests and measurements before the grid-connection off the coast of Port Kembla, near Sydney. The system will be generating about 2.5MW by harvesting air pressure that will turn a wind turbine.

Precision Nanoparticles Technology to Revolutionize Solar Cells

Posted by Cristi in New Inventions, Solar Power on October 23, 2009

The chemists from the Idaho National Laboratory and Idaho State University may have found the gold mine of solar energy efficiency. They invented the manufacturing of a highly precise and uniform nanopaticle that improves solar cells and further spurs the growing nanotech revolution.

SEADOG Uses Waves' Own Power to Desalinate Sea Water

Posted by Cristi in Water Purifiers, Wave power on October 21, 2009

A company called Renew Blue, Inc. will use wave power to run a desalination plant in Freeport, Texas. The resulted water will be finally put into corn-based biodegradable plastic bottles. The SEADOG power system is made from a buoy which puts in motion a piston mechanism that rotates a water wheel to generate electricity.

Meteosat Used to Detect Faulty Solar Panel Power Stations

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Solar Power on October 19, 2009

Italy is known for its plans to develop photovoltaic power as one of their main sources of energy. Having such a wide experience in solar power harvesting, several issues arise regarding the solar panels’ maintenance. Every PV plant has a sensor verifying the quantity of light arriving at its location at any given moment during the day.

Prius Plug-In Hybrid (PHEV) Present at Tokyo Motor Show

Posted by Cristi in Electric Vehicles, Hybrid vehicles on October 18, 2009

A long time ago, Toyota Motor Corporation has started its green thinking trend with hybrid cars which revolutionized fuel consumption. Now they found a way to combine electric vehicles with hybrid ones and they presented their concept just days before the Tokyo Motor Show.

Redox Flow Batteries: a Quickly-Charging Alternative to Li-Ion?

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Energy Storage on October 14, 2009

Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology (ICT) in Pfintzal, near Karlsruhe, propose an alternative to the lazily-charging Lithium-Ions: the redox flow batteries.

New Method of Guiding Light Through Polymer Helps Solar Cells Get Cheaper

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Solar Power on October 14, 2009

New research is paving the pathway towards better and more efficient solar cells, as University of Florida chemists have invented a method of “hacking” the molecular structures of the materials the solar cells are made of, in order to gain a maximum transfer efficiency from them.

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