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In winter's chill, cold batteries mean trouble for plug-in cars

Technology / Energy

created Feb 01, 2010 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (7) | comments 9

Nobody worried about cold-weather performance of electric vehicle battery packs when it was warm outside, but now that Old Man Winter has descended, the problem is beginning to surface. When cars have a range of no more ...


3D gets close enough to touch

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jan 06, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The flat, familiar, two-dimensional television image at the center of your home theater is about to take on the lifelike illusion of depth. At least that's the way the future looks through the spectacles of Hollywood studios, ...


Nissan Leaf

Electric cars rolling out

Technology / Energy

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (16) | comments 7 weblog

(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.


The world's highest efficiency energy conversion photovoltanic (solar panel) cell

Hi-tech, eco-friendly dream home takes shape in Japan

Technology / Energy

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

On Tokyo Bay, at the edge of the largest urban sprawl on Earth, sits what may be an environmentalist's dream home.


Penguins and sea lions help produce new atlas

Penguins and sea lions help produce new atlas

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Recording hundreds of thousands of individual uplinks from satellite transmitters fitted on penguins, albatrosses, sea lions, and other marine animals, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and BirdLife ...


A system of space solar power system (SSPS)

Japan eyes solar station in space as new energy source

Technology / Energy

created Nov 08, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (23) | comments 32

It may sound like a sci-fi vision, but Japan's space agency is dead serious: by 2030 it wants to collect solar power in space and zap it down to Earth, using laser beams or microwaves.


Japan aims to bury greenhouse gas emissions

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 01, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Swathes of dirty clouds brood over a coal plant in rural Japan, but scientists are now hoping to send the pollutants the other way, deep into the bowels of Mother Earth.


Photographers take pictures of the new Japanese Nissan Motor's electric vehicle called "Leaf"

Japanese car makers out to electrify Tokyo show

Technology / Energy

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (17) | comments 17

Move over hybrids -- the biggest buzz at this year's Tokyo Motor Show looks set to come from electric cars as the dream of affordable zero-emission vehicles moves closer to reality.


$21 Billion Orbiting Solar Array

$21 Billion Orbiting Solar Array will Beam Electricity to Earth

Technology / Energy

created Sep 15, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (42) | comments 73 weblog

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Japanese are preparing to develop a two trillion yen (approximately $21 billion USD) space solar project that will beam electricity from space in the form of microwaves or lasers to around ...


Japan's H-2B rocket carrying the unmanned HTV transportation vehicle launches

Japan sends first cargo spacecraft to ISS

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Japan on Friday launched its first unmanned cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station, aiming for a share of space transport after the retirement of the US space shuttle fleet next year.


A flight engineer participates as construction and maintenance continue on the International Space Station

Japan sends first cargo spacecraft to ISS

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 2

Japan early Friday launched its first cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station, aiming for a share of space transport after the retirement of the US space shuttle fleet next year.


Solar cell shipments in Japan hit record high in April-June

Technology / Energy

created Sep 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Demand for solar cells has been growing rapidly in Japan with a record generating capacity of 83,260 kilowatts shipped to the domestic market between April and June, up 82.5 percent from the same quarter last year, a private-sector ...


Mitsubishi, Hitachi eye disc for cloud computing era

Electronics / Hardware

created Aug 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Hitachi Ltd., Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. and some other organizations plan to jointly develop a next-generation optical disc that can store 25 times more data than a Blu-ray Disc, with the aim of putting the technology into ...


Nissan Motor's electric vehicle called "Leaf"

Nissan's 'Leaf' to challenge Toyota's Prius (Update)

Technology / Energy

created Aug 06, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (8) | comments 4

Nissan's upcoming all-electric car could outsell hybrids like Toyota's Prius even though it can't drive more than about 100 miles (160 kilometers) without stopping to recharge, a senior executive said.


People inspect the Mitsubishi i-MiEv, a new electric microcar

Japan electric car makers, utility plan battery-charge stations

Technology / Energy

created Aug 05, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Three Japanese electric car makers teamed up with the country's largest power company Wednesday to study ways to building a grid of battery charging stations for zero-emission vehicles.