tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72224595986770281892009-07-02T09:32:55.343-07:00<a href="http://www.oilgae.com/energy/nn/b/">NewNergy</a> discusses the latest inventions, innovations and breakthroughs in the energy & environmental sciences.Ecacofonixnoreply@blogger.comBlogger551125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7222459598677028189.post-64168483724562392382009-07-01T00:31:00.000-07:002009-07-01T00:40:49.490-07:00

IBM has announced that it is developing a next-generation rechargeable battery capable of storing 10 times more energy than today's top lithium-ion batteries.The new batteries could be used to power cars and store power for smart energy grids, according to IBM.IBM's multiyear battery research project will also involve the use of nanotechnology, materials science and supercomputing.The company

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A European supermarket chain, Sainsbury's is going to open its first "people-powered" store at its new store in Gloucester, using technology which captures energy from vehicles to power its checkouts.Whenever a vehicle passes over the "kinetic road plates" positioned in the car park, energy is captured which would otherwise be wasted. Sainsbury's will channel the energy back into the store,

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Scientists at the Lawrence Livermore Lab are putting the finishing touches on the world's most powerful laser system known as NIF (National Ignition Facility). In about 18 months, physicists will conduct a highly-publicized test to create fusion energy from water. It is part of a project designed to take the world beyond nuclear energy. But if it succeeds, the system could do more than create

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Here is an interesting article @ physorg.com on "Using nanoparticles to increase the effiiciency of thin film solar cells"Read the article here

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At GE’s Global Research Center near Munich, Germany, scientists have developed a new waste heat recovery technology called ORegen — which is a device that converts waste heat from exhaust streams generated by equipment such as small gas turbines and industrial processes into usable electricity.This technology can help customers address the challenges of rising fuel costs and the increased demand

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Green Earth, Inc. is an environmental company taking up the challenge of ‘greener industry' for the 21st century.A new technology offered by Green Earth Inc. is the "Green Machine" manufactured by ElectraTherm Inc., in Carson City, NV.The "Green Machine" recovers energy value from heat that would have been lost, and uses it to produce additional electricity without emissions. The result is

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Aaron Findley, a student at Oregon Institute of Technology in Southeast Portland, has devised a way to filter and clean used vegetable oil for use in cars and trucks that run on diesel.The project, called the automated biodiesel reactor was one of many student presentations featured at OIT’s 2009 Student Project Symposium. A wide array of renewable energy, information technology and mechanical

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Scientists from Yale University say most polluted ecosystems worldwide can recover in as little as 5 or 10 years. The study means it’s not too late to turn things around if societies commit to cleanup, restoration and sustainability, according to Yale’s analysis of 240 independent studies.Researchers from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies found that forests took 42 years on

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A group of Spanish developers has developed a biochemical process called Ecofa to turn urban solid waste into a fatty acid biodiesel feedstock. Eventhough using microbes to convert organic material into energy isn’t a new concept, using bacteria to convert urban waste to fatty acids, which can then be used as a feedstock for biodiesel production, is a new twist here. It is based on metabolism’s

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A team of Researchers at the University of Rochester developed a process that makes a 100-watt incandescent bulb use less electricity than a 60-watt bulb. The process, they say, would keep the cost of a traditional light bulb well under that of its fluorescent counterpart while maintaining the more pleasant light an incandescent bulb gives off.The team developed a laser process that treats the

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A team of engineering students at MIT, inspired by heliotropic plants that move in the direction of the sun all day (like a sunflower), have developed a new method of motivation for the photovoltaic cells to move. Their invention won first place in MIT's Making and Designing Materials Engineering Contest (MADMEC).Solar cells that track the sun can be 38 percent more efficient in generating power

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A new study from Greenpeace, the European Solar Thermal Agency, and the International Energy Agency’s SolarPACES Group has shown that concentrated solar power (CSP) could generate a quarter of the world’s energy needs by 2050–and create thousands of new jobs and prevent millions of tons of CO2 from being released.CSP uses mirror to focus sunlight on water. The reaction creates steam that turns

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A promising invention now being tested by Solaroad Technologies,part of a business incubator at Towson University, which collects and stores solar energy, even when it isn't sunny.The idea is to place those cells along highways to generate power for street lights or construction.The circular solar collectors placed along a jersey wall gather much more energy than flat panels, even when its a dim

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Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and NAFA Fleet Management Association (NAFA) released a new online calculator for fleet managers to measure their greenhouse gas emissions as a first step in creating "greener" vehicle fleets.This tool that enables fleets to track their progress in reducing emissions over time.Recognizing that it is difficult to capture the complete data required by more advanced

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Electricity more efficient than ethanol as a biomass energy for transportation fuels, says this interesting post at Physorg.Naturally, they are talking about two different pathways. Biomass -> Fermentation -> Ethanol -> Transport; and Biomass -> Combustion -> Electricity (or) Biomass -> Gasification -> Electricity.This sounds interesting and merits some analysis to be done by me later this week.

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UK based biofuel manufacturer, Amplefuel is set to produce 40 million litres of biofuel each year, focusing on making it from used cooking oil and solid fats.The plant, which utilises a variety of feedstocks from waste products, is one of a handful of firms that is able to break the solid fats down to a liquid biodiesel that does not solidify to later cause blockages.Amplefuel utilise the solid

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Cyrium Technologies Inc.,Ottawa,announced that multi-junction solar cells produced by the company now exceed the performance of all commercially manufactured solar cells.Cyrium's first generation solar cells offer efficiencies of 40 per cent or higher together with a nearly constant conversion efficiency for solar concentrations from 200 to greater than 1000 suns. This performance sets a new

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Dublin based company JOSPA hopes to demonstrate superior performance in sustainable electricity production with their new device called Irish Tube Compressor.The Irish Tube Compressor is based on reinforced, flexible tubes lying on the water, using air and water driven forward in successive ’slugs’ by ocean waves, with the resulting water head and air pressure being converted to electricity,

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Washington, D.C.-based New Energy Technologies, Inc. announced about the development of new tinted transparent glass SolarWindows™ capable of generating electricity by coating glass surfaces with the world’s smallest known organic solar cells.New Energy’s SolarWindow technology uses an organic solar array, - cells for which about one-quarter the size of a blade of grass - which achieves

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Jetstream Wind, Inc.,NM, USA, a developer of breakthrough energy technology hits another milestone in the renewable energy industry. The highly anticipated fully sustainable 10 MW (megawatt) hydrogen power plant safely provides emissions-free electricity and creates 99.999% ultra-high purity hydrogen and oxygen in both liquid and gaseous forms for distribution and sales.To date, both liquid

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Inventor Labs and its offshoot Mechanical Electric, Inc. in Redwood City, CA, have found a way of storing wind and solar electricity without diesel generators or chemical batteries: Coil up a spring or lift up a heavy weight into the air. The invention, called a mechanical electrical storage appliance, uses the energy generated by uncoiling a spring or dropping weights attached to each unit.The

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Sustainable Energy Technologies Ltd (SET) launched its "PARALEXTM" massively parallel operating system for Spanish thin film PV systems at the Genera '09, Trade Show in Madrid, Spain.The main advantage of SET's low voltage inverter technology is the array architecture used in PARALEXTM systems offers 5 - 15% improved energy yield per kW installed, through the elimination of panel mismatch losses

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Two British scientists, John Watt and Philip Michael, have launched technology that will convert the controversial tonnes of waste-ash from Britain's coal-fired power stations into valuable minerals useful to industries including cement, car and aviation manufacturers.The first plant for RockTron, which is now finished and on-line in Fiddlers Ferry coal-powered station in Cheshire, UK, will

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Ken Upton, a retired entrepreneur in Spain, has come up with a new method of extracting the energy from the oscillating motion, which is being seriously considered by a major company.An enhanced method of extracting power from fluid flow streams has the potential to produce a great deal of carbon free energy.It relies on having wing shaped hydrofoils that repeatedly go into stall and then recover

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Massachusetts-based Metabolix is working with the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP), to develop its proprietary bioplastic, Mirel™ for military use in food packaging.ADM (Archer Daniels Midland) has teamed up with Metabolix in a joint venture called Telles, to market Mirel bioplastic. The first plant capable of producing Mirel bioplastic in commercial quantites is

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