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Solar energy powers Marines on battlefield

Solar energy powers Marines on battlefield (w/ Video)

Technology / Energy

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

A year ago, U.S. Marines operating in the Arabian Desert only viewed the sun as the source of the region's relentless heat. Recently, the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Advanced Power Generation Future Naval ...


Pickin' Up Good Vibrations to Produce Green Electricity

Pickin' Up Good Vibrations to Produce Green Electricity

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (11) | comments 2

(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.


Researchers demonstrate 100-watt-level mid-infrared lasers

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (12) | comments 0

Northwestern University researchers have achieved a breakthrough in quantum cascade laser output power, delivering 120 watts from a single device at room temperature.


Elusive 'hot' electrons captured in ultra-thin solar cells

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (12) | comments 3

Boston College researchers have observed the "hot electron" effect in a solar cell for the first time and successfully harvested the elusive charges using ultra-thin solar cells, opening a potential avenue to improved solar ...


Toshiba develops essential technology for spintronics-based MOS field-effect transistor

Toshiba develops essential technology for spintronics-based MOS field-effect transistor

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has developed MOSFET cell based on spin transport electronics, or spintronics, an advanced semiconductor technology that makes use of the spin and ...


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Tips to keep iPhone battery going strong

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

In talking with my iPhone-using friends, we often seem to bring up how to squeeze the most life from the iPhone's "nonreplaceable" battery.


China is now the world's top producer of the solar power cells

China solar panel makers see boost from Copenhagen

Technology / Energy

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 2

In Trina Solar's brilliant white factory in eastern China, masked workers in lab coats turn silicon wafers into solar power cells capable of harnessing the sun's clean and limitless energy.


NEC Integrates NanoBridge in the Cu Interconnects of Si LSI

NEC Integrates NanoBridge in the Cu Interconnects of Si LSI

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

NEC Corporation, in collaboration with the National Institute of Materials Science, today announced the successful integration of NanoBridge, a solid electrolyte non-volatile crossbar switch, in Cu interconnects ...


Research shows power of FRET-based approach for distinguishing among distinct states of proteins

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

In the December 2009 issue of the Journal of General Physiology, Moss et al. report a comprehensive investigation employing Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) to study the {gamma}-amino acid (GABA) transporter GAT1, ...


No widespread impact of wind power projects on surrounding residential property values in the US

Technology / Energy

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

A major new Berkeley Lab report finds that proximity to wind energy facilities does not have a pervasive or widespread adverse effect on the property values of nearby homes.



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