http://www.physorg.com/technology-news/energy/ en-us PhysOrg.com provides the latest news on energy sciences, energy technology, energy renovation, alternative energy, and green energy. Panasonic Corporation announced it has developed a direct methanol fuel cell system which can produce an average power output of 20 W by increasing the output per cubic centimeter twice that of its previous prototype. Using this technology, Panasonic aims to develop a 100 W-class portable generator and start field testing in fiscal 2012 ending in March 2012. http://www.physorg.com/news181051490.html Technology - Energy Sat, 26 Dec 2009 12:05:33 EST news181051490 A Nevada energy developer says it has developed an environmentally clean way of using animal waste from chicken farms across the state to light up homes and offices. Green Energy Solutions wants to convert the bird droppings into methane and use the clean-burning gas as a renewable fuel to generate electricity. http://www.physorg.com/news181026529.html Technology - Energy Sat, 26 Dec 2009 05:11:09 EST news181026529 Panasonic Corp., which recently made a successful takeover bid for Sanyo Electric Co., plans to market a lithium-ion storage cell for home use around fiscal 2011. http://www.physorg.com/news180778009.html Technology - Energy Wed, 23 Dec 2009 08:07:15 EST news180778009 Sandia National Laboratories scientists have developed tiny glitter-sized photovoltaic cells that could revolutionize the way solar energy is collected and used. http://www.physorg.com/news180713660.html Technology - Energy Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:14:56 EST news180713660 (PhysOrg.com) -- If you've seen an Internet ad for capacitor-type power factor correction devices, you might be led to believe that using one can save you money on your residential electricity bill. However, a team including specialists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have recently explained why the devices actually provide no savings by discussing the underlying physics. http://www.physorg.com/news180209041.html Technology - Energy Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:04:46 EST news180209041 (PhysOrg.com) -- Electric vehicles are far from new, but we are still a long way from electric cars being the norm. Now two new electric cars may bring that goal a step closer. http://www.physorg.com/news180171314.html Technology - Energy Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:40:01 EST news180171314 Next year will mark the 50th birthday of the laser, one of the most productive and widely used mega-inventions of the last century. Scientists hope that 2010 also will see the launch of laser technology's greatest challenge: creating an inexhaustible supply of clean, carbon-free energy. http://www.physorg.com/news180125332.html Technology - Energy Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:50:47 EST news180125332 (PhysOrg.com) -- A technique developed by a Californian company, Simbol Mining, will enable the valuable mineral lithium, widely used in high-density batteries, to be reclaimed from the hot waste water produced by a geothermal power plant in California. http://www.physorg.com/news179999592.html Technology - Energy Mon, 14 Dec 2009 07:55:05 EST news179999592 Toyota Motor said Monday that it plans to begin commercial sales of its first plug-in hybrid vehicle in about two years, aiming to meet growing demand for fuel-efficient cars. http://www.physorg.com/news179994170.html Technology - Energy Mon, 14 Dec 2009 06:23:41 EST news179994170 Thursday's Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing featured testimony from experts about the power industry's need to develop systems capable of storing large amounts of electricity if the nation's power grid intends to utilize the expected increase of energy produced by renewable resources. http://www.physorg.com/news179688592.html Technology - Energy Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:30:20 EST news179688592 Chip giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is planning its first foray into solar energy with an investment in the island's largest producer of solar cells, a spokesman said Thursday. http://www.physorg.com/news179652960.html Technology - Energy Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:36:33 EST news179652960 (AP) -- Solar technology is going where it has never gone before: onto the shelves at retail stores where do-it-yourselfers can now plunk a panel into a shopping cart and bring it home to install. http://www.physorg.com/news179647607.html Technology - Energy Thu, 10 Dec 2009 06:34:36 EST news179647607 The prototype of Solar Impulse, a pioneering Swiss bid to fly around the world on solar power, briefly took off for the first time on Thursday but under battery power, the organisers said. http://www.physorg.com/news179075027.html Technology - Energy Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:13:37 EST news179075027 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new type of natural-gas electric power plant proposed by MIT researchers could provide electricity with zero carbon dioxide emissions to the atmosphere, at costs comparable to or less than conventional natural-gas plants, and even to coal-burning plants. But that can only come about if and when a price is set on the emission of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases - a step the U.S. Congress and other governments are considering as a way to halt climate change. http://www.physorg.com/news179058845.html Technology - Energy Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:34:39 EST news179058845 As the nation ponders its energy choices, Americans keep asking themselves: how can the country make better use of its resources and emit fewer greenhouse gases without hurting U.S. industries? A research project at Idaho National Laboratory may have part of the answer. http://www.physorg.com/news178821091.html Technology - Energy Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:10:01 EST news178821091 The Naval Research Laboratory's Ion Tiger, a hydrogen-powered fuel cell unmanned air vehicle (UAV), has flown 26 hours and 1 minute carrying a 5-pound payload, setting another unofficial flight endurance record for a fuel-cell powered flight. The test flight took place on November 16th through 17th. http://www.physorg.com/news178810342.html Technology - Energy Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:00:01 EST news178810342 (PhysOrg.com) -- Oak Ridge National Laboratory has announced plans to conduct a series of deep energy retrofit research projects with the potential to improve the energy efficiency in selected homes by as much as 30 to 50 percent. http://www.physorg.com/news178389728.html Technology - Energy Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:20:02 EST news178389728 (PhysOrg.com) -- That California and Texas still lead the United States in generating renewable energy probably is no surprise. But, NREL's 2009 State of the States report shows that several smaller states from Maine to Louisiana to Utah are closing the clean energy gap, confirming that every state has renewable energy potential. http://www.physorg.com/news178272077.html Technology - Energy Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:50:01 EST news178272077 A Boeing 747, one of four engines powered by a 50-percent biokerosene mix, circled the Netherlands for an hour on Monday for what airline KLM called the world's first passenger flight using biofuel. http://www.physorg.com/news178223585.html Technology - Energy Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:37:29 EST news178223585 After wind, sun, currents and tides, a company is preparing to make clean electricity by harnessing another natural phenomenon, the energy-unleashing encounter of freshwater and seawater. http://www.physorg.com/news178183113.html Technology - Energy Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:19:14 EST news178183113 In the mountains above the southwestern Chinese town of Dali, dozens of new wind turbines dot the landscape -- a symbol of the country's sky-high ambitions for clean, green energy. http://www.physorg.com/news178086936.html Technology - Energy Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:40:04 EST news178086936 (PhysOrg.com) -- Whether you call them myths, urban legends, fables or old wives' tales, there's a lot of misinformation out there about plug-in electric hybrid vehicles. These vehicles, abbreviated PHEVs, hold great promise as the key to weaning America from its dependence on imported oil, which represents nearly two-thirds of all the petroleum burned in the United States today. http://www.physorg.com/news177871345.html Technology - Energy Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:45:22 EST news177871345 (PhysOrg.com) -- There's one major drawback to most proposed renewable-energy sources: their variability. The sun doesn't shine at night, the wind doesn`t always blow, and tides, waves and currents fluctuate. That's why many researchers have been pursuing ways of storing the power generated by these sources so that it can be used when it's needed. http://www.physorg.com/news177842619.html Technology - Energy Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:46:21 EST news177842619 The biggest chemical battery in the United States is located near Interstate 90 in the small town of Luverne, Minn. The 80 ton device -- the size of two tractor-trailers stacked on top of each other -- stores as much energy as about 3 million rechargeable AA batteries and can power about 3,000 houses for more than an hour when discharging at its maximum rate. http://www.physorg.com/news177830654.html Technology - Energy Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:25:01 EST news177830654 (AP) -- California regulators adopted the nation's first energy-efficiency standards for televisions Wednesday in hopes of reducing electricity use at a time when millions of American households are switching to power-hungry, wide-view, flat-screen, high-definition sets. http://www.physorg.com/news177765270.html Technology - Energy Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:40:02 EST news177765270 (PhysOrg.com) -- Idaho National Laboratory scientists have set a new world record with next-generation particle fuel for use in high temperature gas reactors (HTGRs). http://www.physorg.com/news177678729.html Technology - Energy Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:00:02 EST news177678729 Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute have converted a 2001 Scion xB into an electric commuter vehicle that will serve as a test bed for a new community-based approach to electric vehicle design, conversion and operations. http://www.physorg.com/news177593173.html Technology - Energy Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:26:55 EST news177593173 Electric cars could help China and other countries reduce their dependency on oil but the government must provide incentive to make the shift, Nissan and Renault CEO Carlos Ghosn said Thursday. http://www.physorg.com/news177257227.html Technology - Energy Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:30:01 EST news177257227 (PhysOrg.com) -- Big things often come in small packages. That's certainly the case with the potential created by recent successes in hydrogen research at Idaho National Laboratory. http://www.physorg.com/news177096285.html Technology - Energy Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:25:39 EST news177096285 A pioneer in solar power in the 1990s before it became "sexy," University of Houston Professor Alex Freundlich recently entered into a collaborative research agreement with U.K.-based start-up QuantaSol for the development of the next generation of super efficient solar cells. http://www.physorg.com/news176999193.html Technology - Energy Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:40:02 EST news176999193