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Voltage Increases Observed in Closely Packed Nanowires
Posted in News, Batteries, Solar Power, Energy Efficiency, Test & Measurement on Thursday, December 08 2011
Unexpected voltage increases of up to 25 percent in two barely separated nanowires have been observed at Sandia National Laboratories. Designers of next-generation devices using nanowires to deliver electric currents — including batteries and certain solar arrays — may need to make allowances for such surprise boosts.
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Evaluating Electrical Performance and Grid Integration of Vehicle-to-Grid Applications
Posted in Alternative Fuels, Transportation, Energy Efficiency, Batteries, Smart Grid, News on Wednesday, December 07 2011
Researchers at the DOE’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have released a technical report that documents a series of test procedures designed to enable engineers, designers, and utilities to evaluate the performance of various electric vehicles and hybrids to optimize how they connect with electric utility grids today – and smart grids in the future.
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Thinner Thermal Insulation for Better Energy Savings
Posted in News, Materials, Plastics, Energy Efficiency, Energy, GDM on Friday, December 02 2011
In order to lower energy costs, more and more homeowners are investing in insulation facades. But the typical insulation layers on the market have one drawback: they add bulk. The thick outer skin changes the building’s visual appearance and can result in significant follow-up costs – with a need to fit new, deeper window sills and sometimes even roof extensions.
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Bacteria Engineered to Eat Switchgrass and Make Transportation Fuels
Posted in News, Alternative Fuels, Green Design & Manufacturing, Biomass, Renewable Energy, Energy, Transportation, GDM on Tuesday, November 29 2011
Researchers with DOE’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) have engineered the first strains of Escherichia coli bacteria that can digest switchgrass biomass and synthesize its sugars into all three of those transportation fuels. The microbes are even able to do this without any help from enzyme additives.
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"Fool's Gold" Could Lead to Cheaper Solar Energy
Posted in News, Materials, Solar Power, Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy, Energy on Monday, November 28 2011
Pyrite - or “fool’s gold” - has recently helped researchers at Oregon State University discover related compounds that offer new, cheap, and promising options for solar energy. These new compounds would be benign and could be processed from some of the most abundant elements on Earth.
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Is Sustainability Science a Legitimate Science?
Posted in News, Government, Research Lab on Wednesday, November 23 2011
Creating a scientific field just out of societal and policy need is a bold concept. But Los Alamos National Laboratory and Indiana University researchers say that for the emerging field of sustainability science - sorting among theoretical and applied scientific disciplines, making sense of potentially divergent theory, practice, and policy - the gamble has paid off.
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Efficient Method for Creating Flexible, Transparent Electrodes
Posted in News, Electronics, Materials, Metals, Solar Power, Renewable Energy on Tuesday, November 22 2011
As the market for liquid crystal displays and other electronics continues to drive up the price of indium — the material used to make the indium tin oxide (ITO) transparent electrodes in these devices — scientists have been searching for a less costly and more dynamic alternative, particularly for use in future flexible electronics.
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