News tagged with new energy technology

New tech removes air pollutants, may reduce energy use in animal ag facilities

Researchers from North Carolina State University and West Virginia University have developed a new technology that can reduce air pollutant emissions from some chicken and swine barns, and also reduce their energy use by ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 04, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

With changes, the grid can take it

Over the next two decades, the U.S. electric grid will face unprecedented technological challenges stemming from the growth of distributed and intermittent new energy sources such as solar and wind power, ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Dec 05, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Post-doctoral researcher makes strides in fuel cell technology

Liang Wang, a post-doctoral researcher in the University of Delaware's Center for Fuel Cell Research in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, is developing new materials and structures that can improve ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Dec 01, 2011 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (4) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Speed-bump device converts traffic energy to electricity

(PhysOrg.com) -- The two little words "speed bump" usually evoke unpleasant memories of spilled coffee and back-seat arguments questioning if and where you learned how to drive. In some green energy circles, ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Nov 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 8 | with audio podcast report

Tech company to build science ghost town in NM

New Mexico, home to several of the nation's premier scientific, nuclear and military institutions, is planning to embark on a science project of unprecedented scale - a petri dish the size of a large U.S. city.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Sep 06, 2011 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 18

Researchers cut machinery fuel consumption by half

Researchers at Aalto University in Finland have found a way to cut the amount of fuel consumed by non-road mobile machinery by half. This new technology captures energy, which up to now has been lost by the ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 01, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Using the energy in oil shale without releasing carbon dioxide in a greenhouse world

New technology that combines production of electricity with capture of carbon dioxide could make billions of barrels of oil shale — now regarded as off-limits because of the huge amounts of carbon dioxide released in ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Apr 20, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

'Cold fusion' rebirth? New evidence for existence of controversial energy source

Researchers are reporting compelling new scientific evidence for the existence of low-energy nuclear reactions (LENR), the process once called "cold fusion" that may promise a new source of energy. One group ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 23, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (48) | comments 59