Microcrack Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Wed, 12 Dec 2012 12:17:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Cutting Edge Ceramics Could Compete with Metals in Future Greener Buildings https://www.greenoptimistic.com/cutting-edge-ceramics-that-can-compete-with-metals-in-future-greener-buildings-20121212/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/cutting-edge-ceramics-that-can-compete-with-metals-in-future-greener-buildings-20121212/#respond Wed, 12 Dec 2012 12:17:32 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=29673 Scientists at the Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) are currently testing new ceramic composites that may improve fuel efficiency of jet engines and reduce pollution. In addition to being very lightweight, these ceramic composites have the ability to tolerate extremely high temperatures. This may, one day, drastically improve the performance […]

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