2012 finds the United States tapping into its own natural gas reserves like never before and even producing enough natural gas for heating and power generation. Experts expect this trend to continue as reserves embedded in share are gradually...
Currently, people in the urban areas of Germany’s Bavarian Forest suffer from high levels of air pollution caused by automobiles, and, in particular, nitrogen oxides (NOx). To combat this issue, the European Union has made the upper limit values...
The world of ‘green’ energy is celebrating the latest statistics indicating that wind turbines produce more electricity than gas-fueled power plants for a first time. The estimated wind capacity reached 6,519 megawatts in November this year, which is around...
The rigidity of solar cells has long frustrated scientists. Solar cell applications are often very limited since the cells come in stiff, heavy, fixed panels. Scientists have long dreamed of photovoltaics that are more like decals than panels, and...
One of the greatest challenges hybrid automobiles have faced is the perception that battery-powered or battery-assisted vehicles do long have a long life and therefore are unreliable. Researchers are working on identifying, analyzing, and improving materials to create better...
The journal of Landscape Ecology published a study on the way climate change and housing development affect breeding of birds in California. Dennis Jongsomjit and a team of scientists of PRBO Conservation Science (PRBO) established that the threat changes...
The two types of magnetism have been known since the 1970s when Nobel Prize was given to Louis Neel. In both ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism, the materials should be cooled below certain temperature so that they can be magnetic.
Scientists at...
An electric window shutter, which does not require electric work or power distribution work will soon be released by Sanwa Shutter Corp. It attaches by PV cells to the case of window shutters and it opens and closes only...
Over the past decades, climate change is increasingly becoming present at almost every agenda list of most global political and environmental meetings. Unfortunately, policymakers and politicians somehow fail to agree on a common strategy, while the impact is becoming...
Landfills are not just an eyesore, but also produce methane as their contents decompose. Methane is a greenhouse gas, and if not recovered, could accelerate climate change. On the other hand, recovered methane makes a great fuel, which...
