News tagged with alternative energy
Solar power coming to a store near you
Dec 10, 2009 |
4.6 / 5 (31) |
28
(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.
How a Solar-Hydrogen Economy Could Supply the World's Energy Needs
Aug 24, 2009 |
4.1 / 5 (48) |
67
(PhysOrg.com) -- As the world's oil supply continues to dry out every day, the question of what will replace oil and other fossil fuels is becoming more and more urgent. According to the World Coal Institute, ...
Surveillance vehicles take flight using alternative energy
Mar 30, 2009 |
4.9 / 5 (7) |
5
Nearly undetectable from the ground, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are widely used by the military to scan terrain for possible threats and intelligence. Now, fuel cell powered UAVs are taking flight as ...
Making New Enzymes to Engineer Plants for Biofuel Production
Dec 21, 2009 |
5 / 5 (1) |
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- Brookhaven scientists have created a new enzyme with the potential to interfere with a key cell-wall component in plants, possibly leading to plants that are easier to "digest" and convert ...
300 mph: New Land Speed Record for a Hydrogen Powered Vehicle
Sep 28, 2009 |
4.3 / 5 (7) |
1
(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the complaints that many have with regard to vehicles powered by alternative energy is the fact that they don't really have a lot of speed. However, this does not necessarily have to ...
Surveillance vehicles take flight using alternative energy (w/Video)
Apr 17, 2009 |
4.5 / 5 (2) |
1
Nearly undetectable from the ground, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are widely used by the military to scan terrain for possible threats and intelligence. Now, fuel cell powered UAVs are taking flight as ...
Researchers evaluate highway rest areas for wind power
Mar 20, 2009 |
4.8 / 5 (45) |
0
Illinois is the Prairie State and home to the Windy City. And sometimes, when standing out in that prairie and feeling the wind racing across the state, you begin to wonder if there is anything between here and Kansas that ...
ONR and GM partner to test advanced fuel cell vehicles of the future (w/Video)
Mar 18, 2009 |
not rated yet |
1
As the global automobile industry considers alternative energy sources to replace the traditional internal combustion engine, Jessie Pacheco, a mail clerk at Camp Pendleton, has been making his rounds to Marines ...
Atmospheric 'sunshade' could reduce solar power generation
Mar 11, 2009 |
4.2 / 5 (5) |
27
The concept of delaying global warming by adding particles into the upper atmosphere to cool the climate could unintentionally reduce peak electricity generated by large solar power plants by as much as one-fifth, ...
Getting into hot water: Solar water heating pays for itself five times over
Mar 09, 2009 |
4.1 / 5 (13) |
4
An analysis of the engineering and economics for a solar water-heating system shows it to have a payback period of just two years, according to researchers in India. They report, in the International Journal of Global En ...
'Green' gasoline on the horizon?
Jan 13, 2009 |
3.8 / 5 (6) |
0
University of Oklahoma researchers believe newer, more environmentally friendly fuels produced from biomass could create alternative energy solutions and alleviate dependence on foreign oil without requiring changes to current ...
Targeting brain cancer cell metabolism may provide new treatment
Dec 15, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
Inhibiting fatty acid synthesis in brain cancer cells may offer a new option to treat about 50 percent of deadly glioblastomas that are driven by amplified signaling of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), according ...
Where's the next boom? Maybe in 'cleantech'
Oct 06, 2009 |
2.8 / 5 (5) |
0
(AP) -- Our economy sure could use the Next Big Thing. Something on the scale of railroads, automobiles or the Internet - the kind of breakthrough that emerges every so often and builds industries, generates ...
Washington forests may be solution to state's green-energy quest
Aug 20, 2009 |
1.6 / 5 (5) |
2
(PhysOrg.com) -- Wood is a popular fuel for heating homes in the Northwest but few people might see it as an important source of liquid fuels for motor vehicles. However, a new University of Washington report ...
New funding will stimulate alternative energy research
Nov 16, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
Initiatives to provide geothermal heating or power at the Pueblo of Jemez and the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology campus are receiving Los Alamos National Laboratory assistance, thanks to recent American Reinvestment ...
- Pages: 1
