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Sanyo Saves Air Conditioning/Lighting Energy In Offices By Using Camera System
Sanyo Electric Co., in an initiative to reduce their carbon footprint and at the same time to save money, is experimenting with a system composed of cameras that assess how many persons are in a certain room and regulates air conditioning and lighting according to the results.
Edible Hydrogen Storage Made From Sugar, Alcohol, Salt and Water Discovered
Hydrogen fuel cells are thought to be the best possible solution for our cars to run as clean as they can. Hydrogen, though, can only be stored in pressurized tanks, for the moment, and the mileage you get from a single fill is far from decent, or at least far from what we've been used to.
BMW Unveils Two New Hybrid Electric Cars and has Green Plans for the Future
Korea will be the country where BMW will introduce its most eco-friendly conventional vehicle, the 320d EfficientDynamics Edition, by the end of next year. The German car maker has officially launched other two new hybrid electric vehicles.
GreenDroid: Newly Developed Smartphone Chip Uses 11 Times Less Energy Per Instruction
Smartphones are looked upon as the most sophisticated and trendy devices there are on the market nowadays, since mostly everyone wants or uses one. Still, with the coming of Google's Android and the freedom from Microsoft's Windows Mobile, no big changes have been made to green up these devices, as their power consumption grows exponentially.
Pyrolysis Oil Obtained from Agricultural and Forestry Waste
Researchers at the University of Twente have recently discovered one of the cheaply and efficiently method to convert biomass from agricultural and forestry waste into oil.
Researchers Find New Way to Make Less Toxic Super-Fast Graphene Transistors
Graphene has a great potential to make electronic devices such as phones, radios and computers smaller and faster. The new graphene-based technology could play a key role in waste reduction and energy conservation.
Zinc Oxide Solar Cells Receiving 8 Percent Boost With Food Dyes
Zinc oxide-based solar cells have just received an innovation from an Indian scientist, Ram Mehra of Sharda University in Greater Noida, India. He claims boosting the capacity of zinc oxide fuel cells and making them capture more of the incident light by using a blended mixture of common dyes, regularly used in food and medical industries.
Ford Focus Electric's Battery Will Feature Heating/Cooling Before Charging
Ford wants to implement cooling/heating mechanisms for the batteries they will include in their future Focus Electric. The engineers at Ford designed a thermally conductive liquid that circulates throughout the battery.
California to Have 75 New Renewable Fuel Filling Stations
The program, which includes these renewable fuel filling stations, is called the Low Carbon Fuel Infrastructure Investment Initiative, and is being supported by a $10.9 million grant from the California Energy Commission and the US Department of Energy.
EZlab Fuel Cell Test Station Launched by NuVant Systems
According to the company, the station aims to make it easier for scientists to compare the performance of electrode components in fuel cells, which produce energy from fuels like alcohols, hydrogen and hydrocarbons.
