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MIT Seeks Federal Funds for Developing Possibly Hazardous Virus Battery
Viruses seemed like a frightened enemy that kept standing in our way for the past... million years. Although they have their qualification and role in the ecosystem, we seem to hate viruses and only associate them will our colds, hepatitis, and other illnesses. Not for a moment we could think of them as of a power source.
Experiment Shows Desalination Plants Could Produce Hydrogen
As the world's potable water resources thin each year, scientists strive to decypher ways to use the immense amounts of water that abound the oceans and seas, and to make them drinkable. All that desalination process consumes energy resources, and that makes water more expensive to produce and drink in some parts of the world.
Seeo Presents 300 Watt-Hour/Kg Solid Polymer Electrolyte Battery
Lithium-ion batteries are used in all the gadgets that surround us, and in the forthcoming electric cars. New versions of them are on their way, and one month after another brings news about new emerging technologies.
Japanese Innovation Makes Wind Turbines Storm-Proof
I have an article showing a video of a wind turbine torn apart by heavy winds. In fact, if you research more, you'll find out that this is the reason the wind turbines are placed in pristine fields, with no houses close to them and each turbine has to have a safety distance from the others. In case of a storm, if one falls down... you get the picture.
Carbon Neutral Methane Obtained Cheaply From CO2 and Water
We all know most of world's greatest inventions have been made by mistake. A team of researchers from the Penn State, led by Bruce E.Logan, Kappe Professor of Environmental Engineering, discovered how to produce methane from water and carbon dioxide. Here's what he says: "We were studying making hydrogen in microbial electrolysis cells and we kept getting all this methane. We may now understand why."
Linde`s Ionic Hydrogen Compressor Offering Better Fueling Stations
In this new era of alternative fuels, oil companies can't just stand there and watch electricity and hydrogen take the place of their classic beloved petrol consuming machines. The best strategy they found is the most common-sensed one: get involved little by little in the business, adapt to the market's needs, and perhaps change your image to the public from black oil to green leaves.
Kia Offers Start-Stop Hybridization System for Free
Kia provides ECO cee'd with ISG system at the same price as the cee'd without ISG. ISG system reduces CO2 emissions and as well fuel consumption. For the city drive fuel consumption is reduced up to 15%.
Gas Hydrates ("Burning Ice") Offer Clean Heating Solution
There is enough material underground to heat 100 million homes for a decade. With this amazing source of energy (the gas hydrates) researchers could develop systems that can provide green and cheap energy for all.
Atlantic City Convention Center Installed 2.4 MW Solar Powered Rooftop
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.
Nano-Abrasive Material Makes Self-Cleaning Solar Cells
Scientists from GIT (Georgia Institute of Technology) have invented a new solar cell surface treatment that could be applied to existing solar cells technology, and that could boost the light absorption into the cell. It also has self-cleaning capabilities.
