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Brain power goes green

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Our brains, it turns out, are eco-friendly. A study published in Science and reviewed by F1000 Biology members Venkatesh Murthy and Jakob Sorensen reveals that our brains have the amazing ability to be energy efficient.


The principle of generating blue energy by reverse electrodialysis.

Boosting the amount of energy obtained from water

Technology / Energy

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

The energy generated in places where fresh water and salt water meet is known as blue energy. This is a relatively new but highly promising renewable energy source. Piotr Długołęcki of the University ...


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Passing cars to generate energy for new UK supermarket

Technology / Energy

created Jun 17, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (21) | comments 33

A new grocery store in the UK opening today will generate energy every time a customer drives into the parking lot. Sainsbury's, located in Gloucester, is the first European store to feature "Kinetic Road ...


Schwarzenegger to issue renewable energy order

Technology / Energy

created Sep 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Administration officials say Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is moving ahead with plans to sign an executive order establishing the most aggressive renewable energy standard in the nation.


Magazine touts NJIT idea to harness clean energy for NYC

Technology / Energy

created Jul 14, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

An NJIT architecture professor with an architecture student has designed a network of modular floating docks to harness clean energy for New York City. The proposal was featured this week in Metropolis magazine.


Powerful laser sheds light on fast ignition and high energy density physics

Powerful laser sheds light on fast ignition and high energy density physics

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

A new generation of high-energy (>kJ) petawatt (HEPW) lasers is being constructed worldwide to study high intensity laser matter interactions, including fast ignition. Fast ignition is a laser-based technique ...


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Artificial Leaves Generate Power by Pumping Water

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 03, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (20) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- Natural leaves constantly lose water through evaporation, as the water in their veins is pumped up to the top of the tree. This process, called transpiration, could also create a mechanical ...


US army to be powered by waste

US army to be powered by waste

Technology / Energy

created Oct 12, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 9

(PhysOrg.com) -- Defense company Qinetiq has been awarded a contract to supply the US army with a system that generates electricity from garbage.


Homeowners, small businesses install turbines to cut long-term energy costs

Technology / Energy

created Apr 25, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (25) | comments 14

Steve and Sue Kirkham's home sits atop a hill where the wind can be strong enough to mute conversations and rattle lawn chairs. Instead of complaining, they decided to harness its power.


German firms join for solar-thermal push in the U.S.

Technology / Energy

created Aug 18, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

German firms Solar Millennium AG and MAN Ferrostaal AG on Monday said they formed a joint venture to build up to three utility-scale plants in Southern California at a cost about $1 billion each.


Pickin' Up Good Vibrations to Produce Green Electricity

Pickin' Up Good Vibrations to Produce Green Electricity

Technology / Engineering

created 9 hours ago | popularity 3.9 / 5 (7) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Vibrations from the environments we live and work in could be much more widely harnessed as a clean source of electricity, due to cutting-edge UK research.


Can solar work help save jobs at space center

Technology / Energy

created Jun 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NASA and Florida Power & Light Co. took a big step last week toward building a pair of clean-electricity plants at Kennedy Space Center.


Schwarzenegger to veto renewable energy bills

Technology / Energy

created Sep 13, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's office said Saturday that he would veto legislation requiring a third of California's energy to come from renewable sources by 2020, choosing instead to mandate the change through an ...


Bone-cell control of energy generation is regulated by the protein Atf4

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Bone cells known as osteoblasts were recently shown to have a role in controlling the biochemical reactions that generate energy via secretion of the molecule osteocalcin. Gerard Karsenty and colleagues, at Columbia University ...


Shifting the world to 100 percent clean, renewable energy as early as 2030 -- here are the numbers

Shifting the world to 100 percent clean, renewable energy as early as 2030 -- here are the numbers

Technology / Energy

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (31) | comments 21

Most of the technology needed to shift the world from fossil fuel to clean, renewable energy already exists. Implementing that technology requires overcoming obstacles in planning and politics, but doing so ...