http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Fraunhofer IWES (Germany) presents the OGEMA Alliance, which will offer an open software platform for energy management. http://www.physorg.com/news180180547.html Technology Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:11:51 EST news180180547 Not so long ago our computers had a single core which had to be boosted for performance - making each machine into a great central heating system. Beyond 85° C, however, electronic components become unstable. To overcome this physical limit, a solution was found with the multicore technology, where the same chip includes several processors which share tasks. Most of today's consumer electronics proudly boast a "dual core" or "quad core". However, in time the technology will come up against the same physical limits. http://www.physorg.com/news179755670.html Technology Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:10:05 EST news179755670 Fresh from signing on to help green Silicon Valley, startup Hara will be at climate talks in Copenhagen this week to urge that corporations not wait for regulations to fight global warming. http://www.physorg.com/news179390542.html Space & Earth Mon, 07 Dec 2009 06:42:44 EST news179390542 (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 Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:20:02 EST news178389728 In a provocative new study, a University of Utah scientist argues that rising carbon dioxide emissions - the major cause of global warming - cannot be stabilized unless the world's economy collapses or society builds the equivalent of one new nuclear power plant each day. http://www.physorg.com/news178178343.html Space & Earth Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:59:57 EST news178178343 (PhysOrg.com) -- Energy adviser and former Honeywell executive Maxine Savitz says there are enormous energy savings available through increased efficiency, as much as 30 percent by 2030. http://www.physorg.com/news177845679.html Technology Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:35:02 EST news177845679 Carbon is usually typecast as a villain in terms of the environment but researchers at the University of Warwick have devised a novel way to miniaturise a technology that will make carbon a key material in some extremely green heating products for our homes and in air conditioning equipment for our cars. http://www.physorg.com/news177076423.html Technology Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:10:02 EST news177076423 Buildings typically provide shelter from the elements, but one Ryerson University researcher thinks structures ought to relate more to the environment instead. To this end, she has created architectural "skins," which interact with the weather to ultimately create environmental structures that integrate form with function. http://www.physorg.com/news176732821.html Other Sciences Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:27:46 EST news176732821 The new "smart meters" utilities are installing in homes around the world to reduce energy use raise fresh privacy issues because of the wealth of information about consumer habits they reveal, experts said Friday. http://www.physorg.com/news176703307.html Technology Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:16:07 EST news176703307 New technologies and policies that save energy, remove atmospheric carbon and limit greenhouse gas emissions are needed to fight global climate change - but face daunting technological, economic and political hurdles, a Michigan State University scientist said. http://www.physorg.com/news175792422.html Space & Earth Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:40:07 EST news175792422 Many children are not only passionate about environmental issues, but more than capable of driving forward sustainability initiatives, argues new research into the role of schools in developing more sustainable communities. Children already play a key role in becoming more sustainable by encouraging changes in behaviour of those around them whether in terms of recycling, saving energy, growing vegetables and healthy eating etc. http://www.physorg.com/news175327896.html Space & Earth Wed, 21 Oct 2009 07:12:15 EST news175327896 In a sea of energy-guzzling consumer products, the government's EnergyStar sticker is a beacon of light for many energy-conscious consumers. But that little blue square with a star on it might not be so bright after all, according to Consumer Reports, which claims that the decades-old program is in need of some major upgrades. http://www.physorg.com/news173971372.html Space & Earth Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:10:04 EST news173971372 (AP) -- Energy regulators on Friday moved forward with a plan that could ban the sale of the most power-hungry televisions from California retail stores. http://www.physorg.com/news172562950.html Technology Sat, 19 Sep 2009 07:31:51 EST news172562950 (PhysOrg.com) -- Faster internet search engine processors could be the key to reducing the environmental impact of the worldwide web, according to scientists at the University of Glasgow. http://www.physorg.com/news170953747.html Technology Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:11:02 EST news170953747 (PhysOrg.com) -- Stanford researchers have developed a method of stacking and purifying crystal layers that may pave the way for three-dimensional microchips. http://www.physorg.com/news170527247.html Nanotechnology Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:41:21 EST news170527247 (AP) -- Ford Motor Co. said Tuesday its future electric cars will "talk" to power grids across the country, part of an effort to drive interest in alternative energy vehicles. http://www.physorg.com/news169837918.html Technology Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:12:41 EST news169837918 One way the United States could slash its electricity use, dependence on fossil fuels and emissions of heat-trapping gases is really quite simple: better light bulbs. http://www.physorg.com/news169404880.html Technology Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:30:01 EST news169404880 While most Americans think climate change is an important issue, they don't see it as an immediate threat, so getting people to "go green" requires policymakers, scientists and marketers to look at psychological barriers to change and what leads people to action, according to a task force of the American Psychological Association. http://www.physorg.com/news168879215.html Medicine & Health Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:56:39 EST news168879215 A 1930s house built in 2008 is about to undergo the first of three energy efficiency upgrades which will ultimately convert an energy inefficient house into a zero carbon home designed to meet the Government's 2016 CO2 targets for all new housing. The results of this research will be relevant to millions of householders across the UK. http://www.physorg.com/news168716675.html Technology Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:10:01 EST news168716675 (PhysOrg.com) -- Using solar panels, wind turbines, appliance monitoring, and on-site energy storage, General Electric has a plan to enable homeowners to cut their annual energy consumption (from the electric grid) to zero, in some cases, and at least minimize consumption in others. GE is piloting the technology this year, and hopes to commercialize the system by 2015. http://www.physorg.com/news166965770.html Technology Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:23:15 EST news166965770 (PhysOrg.com) -- As energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions continually rise in the United States, unconventional natural gas sources coupled with advances in carbon sequestration may be the solution, according to Stanford University scientists. http://www.physorg.com/news166808069.html Space & Earth Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:35:28 EST news166808069 Against the background of climate change, how can xDSL systems function more energy-efficiently and cost-effectively? Scientists are providing a solution combining existing methods which network providers could implement immediately. http://www.physorg.com/news165058793.html Technology Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:40:29 EST news165058793 Techniques and instrumentation initially developed for ExoMars - Europe`s next robotic mission to Mars in 2016 - but now due to fly on a NASA mission in 2018, could also provide the answers to the globally pressing issue of energy supply. http://www.physorg.com/news163761149.html Technology Tue, 09 Jun 2009 10:12:53 EST news163761149 The study which was coordinated by Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Inno-vation Research ISI shows that, by improving current policies the target of 20% RES in final energy consumption in 2020 can be achieved, which will provide a net effect of about 410,000 additional jobs as well as a 0.24% additional gross domestic product (GDP). It is the first study to assess the economic effects of a sustainable energy policy based on supporting RES in this detail, looking not only at jobs in the RES sector itself, but also taking its impact on all sectors of the economy into account. http://www.physorg.com/news163335549.html Space & Earth Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:59:36 EST news163335549 Global carbon dioxide emissions are set to rise 39 percent by 2030 as energy consumption surges in the developing world, notably in Asian giants China and India, the United States warned on Wednesday. http://www.physorg.com/news162671382.html Space & Earth Wed, 27 May 2009 19:30:03 EST news162671382 The U.S. Department of Energy should consider gradually changing its system of setting appliance energy-efficiency standards to a full-fuel-cycle measurement, which takes into account both the energy used to operate an appliance, as well as upstream energy costs -- energy consumed in producing and distributing fuels from coal, oil, and natural gas, and energy lost in generating and delivering electric power. This change would offer consumers more complete information on household energy consumption and its environmental impacts, says a new congressionally mandated report from the National Research Council. http://www.physorg.com/news162642806.html Technology Wed, 27 May 2009 11:34:33 EST news162642806 UC San Diego computer scientists are one step closer to building low cost networks of underwater sensors for real time underwater environmental monitoring. At the IEEE Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop in Rome, Italy, on May 25, computer scientists from the Jacobs School of Engineering presented a paper highlighting the energy conservation benefits of using reconfigurable hardware rather than competing hardware platforms for their experimental underwater sensor nets. http://www.physorg.com/news162640918.html Technology Wed, 27 May 2009 11:02:52 EST news162640918 Solar energy has the potential to improve the living conditions of poor rural households in India as well as contribute to the country's future energy security, according to Professor Govindasamy Agoramoorthy from Tajen University, who is Tata-Sadguru Visiting Chair, and Dr. Minna Hsu from the National Sun Yat-sen University in Taiwan. Their study, looking at the benefits of solar lanterns on the livelihoods of village communities in Western India, as well as sustainable use of the environment, has just been published online in Springer's journal Human Ecology. http://www.physorg.com/news160056857.html Other Sciences Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:14:44 EST news160056857 Algae is widely touted as the next best source for fueling the world's energy needs. But one of the greatest challenges in creating biofuels from algae is that when you extract the oil from the algae, it kills the organisms, dramatically raising production costs. Now researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory and Iowa State University have developed groundbreaking "nanofarming" technology that safely harvests oil from the algae so the pond-based "crop" can keep on producing. http://www.physorg.com/news158333205.html Nanotechnology Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:27:13 EST news158333205 Putting idle servers to sleep when they're not in use is part of University of Michigan researchers' plan to save up to 75 percent of the energy that power-hungry computer data centers consume. http://www.physorg.com/news155495636.html Technology Thu, 05 Mar 2009 17:14:18 EST news155495636