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'Anti-noise' silences wind turbines
Aug 11, 2008 |
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If wind energy converters are located anywhere near a residential area, they must never become too noisy even in high winds. Most such power units try to go easy on their neighbors' ears, but even the most ...
Today's waste, tomorrow's fuel
Jul 03, 2007 |
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A Cardiff University research collaboration is working to recycle precious metals from road dusts and vehicle exhausts to create greener energy.
Pelamis Wave Power: In the Sweet Spot of the Curl for Renewable Energy
Nov 09, 2007 |
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The Edinburgh based Pelamis Wave Power Converter has undergone stringest testing over the past ten years before its launch into the commercial market. The project has achieved world-wide attention and created ...
Potassium leads to better hydrogen-storage materials
Apr 15, 2009 |
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An international research team, including Professor Rajeev Ahuja's research group at Uppsala University, has shown that small additions of potassium drastically improve the hydrogen-storage properties of certain types of ...
New energy source? Scientists convert heat to power using organic molecules
Feb 15, 2007 |
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Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have successfully generated electricity from heat by trapping organic molecules between metal nanoparticles, an achievement that could pave the way toward ...
Building a better telecom system
Jul 22, 2008 |
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Hurricane Katrina helped University of Texas professor, Alexis Kwasinski, formulate a new plan for the U.S. telecom system: a de-centralized power architecture that would have kept the lights and phones on in New Orleans. ...
Hybrid Bus in the City: A Prototype with a Future
Aug 20, 2007 |
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Nuremberg’s public transport system has become more "electrified" thanks to a diesel-electric hybrid bus developed by MAN. The vehicle is equipped with drive-system technology from Siemens.
Researchers study harmful particulates
Feb 26, 2007 |
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Reducing barnyard emissions is one way to help reduce the harmful effects of tiny atmospheric air particles that can cause severe asthma in children, and lung cancer and heart attacks in some adults.
Ceria Nanoparticles Catalyze Reactions for Cleaner-Fuel Future
Mar 15, 2005 |
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Experiments on ceria (cerium oxide) nanoparticles carried out at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory may lead to catalytic converters that are better at cleaning up auto exhaust, and/or to more-efficient ...
Engineers ride 'rogue' laser waves to build better light sources
Mar 05, 2009 |
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A freak wave at sea is a terrifying sight. Seven stories tall, wildly unpredictable, and incredibly destructive, such waves have been known to emerge from calm waters and swallow ships whole. But rogue waves ...
Rubber 'snake' could help wave power get a bite of the energy market
Jul 03, 2008 |
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A device consisting of a giant rubber tube may hold the key to producing affordable electricity from the energy in sea waves.
Portuguese wave-power snake dead in the water
Mar 24, 2009 |
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Opened in September as a world "first" in producing electricity from waves, a pioneering installation here is dead in the water having functioned for only a few weeks in a stormy process of research and development.
Toward home-brewed electricity with 'personalized solar energy'
Dec 16, 2009 |
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New scientific discoveries are moving society toward the era of "personalized solar energy," in which the focus of electricity production shifts from huge central generating stations to individuals in their ...
'Fish technology' draws renewable energy from slow water currents
Nov 20, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Slow-moving ocean and river currents could be a new, reliable and affordable alternative energy source. A University of Michigan engineer has made a machine that works like a fish to turn ...
New hydrogen production method could reduce need for fossil fuels
Jan 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have created an entirely natural and renewable method for producing hydrogen to generate electricity which could drastically reduce the dependency on fossil fuels in the future.
