News tagged with heat source
Evaluating the energy balance of Saturn's moon Titan
To understand the weather and climate on Earth as well as on other planets and their moons, scientists need to know the global energy balance, the balance between energy coming in from solar radiation and thermal energy radiated ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 02, 2012 |
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Gene discovery explains how fruit flies retreat from heat
A discovery in fruit flies may be able to tell us more about how animals, including humans, sense potentially dangerous discomforts.
Dec 15, 2011 |
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Airbus shows off a see-thru concept plane (w/ video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Airbus has begun to show off its version of the plane of the future. It is somewhere between cool and disturbing, depending on who you ask, but it definitely represents some interesting new technology that ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Jun 14, 2011 |
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Natural gas can play major role in greenhouse gas reduction
Natural gas is important in many sectors of the economy: for generating electricity, as a heat source for industry and buildings, and in chemical feedstock. Given the abundance of natural gas available through large global ...
Jun 10, 2011 |
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Neutron analysis explains dynamics behind best thermoelectric materials
Neutron analysis of the atomic dynamics behind thermal conductivity is helping scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory gain a deeper understanding of how thermoelectric materials ...
Jun 06, 2011 |
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US energy use chart shows we waste more than half of our energy
(PhysOrg.com) -- This flow chart of the estimated US energy use in 2009, assembled by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), paints a pretty sobering picture of our energy situation. To begin with, ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Apr 09, 2011 |
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Scientists theorize Titan shaped by weather, not ice volcanoes
(PhysOrg.com) -- Have the surface and belly of Saturn's smog-shrouded moon, Titan, recently simmered like a chilly, bubbling cauldron with ice volcanoes, or has this distant moon gone dead? In a newly published ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 08, 2011 |
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Italy's Enel opens innovative solar power plant
Italian energy company Enel on Wednesday inaugurated an innovative solar thermal plant that stores heat from the sun in molten salts.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Jul 14, 2010 |
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Hydrogen distribution not an option in biomass gasification
When using fuel cells to generate electricity from biomass, the best approach is to do so centrally, in combination with a gas turbine. The production and subsequent distribution of hydrogen is an inefficient process. This ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Jul 08, 2010 |
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A silo fire doesn't have to ruin all stored silage
(PhysOrg.com) -- Sometimes, when harvest conditions are less than ideal, silage with lower-than-optimum moisture levels is put into a silo, potentially leading to excessive heating and a spontaneous-combustion ...
Oct 27, 2009 |
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A Kinoform's Best Friend: Diamond Refractive Lenses for Nanofocusing
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of Brookhaven and Argonne National Laboratory researchers has demonstrated a reliable path for sculpting an intricate x-ray focusing lens out of diamond. Their technique, which was ...
Aug 03, 2009 |
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Biomimetic-engineering design can replace spaghetti tangle of nanotubes in thermal material
Nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) devices have the potential to revolutionize the world of sensors: motion, chemical, temperature, etc. But taking electromechanical devices from the micro scale down to ...
Jun 17, 2009 |
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Biomimetic-engineering design can replace spaghetti tangle of nanotubes in novel material
(PhysOrg.com) -- Nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) devices have the potential to revolutionize the world of sensors: motion, chemical, temperature, etc. But taking electromechanical devices from the micro ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jun 01, 2009 |
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Getting into hot water: Solar water heating pays for itself five times over
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 ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Mar 09, 2009 |
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