Energy Technology - Inventions, Research, Innovations, Breakthrough

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1. Nanotechnology Holds Promise for Energy Breakthroughs - Nanotechnology holds promise for necessary breakthroughs in a number of critical energy sectors, including solar cells, thermoelectric conversion and transport, hydrogen storage, and electrochemical conversion and storage (i.e., batteries, capacitors and fuel cells), according to scientists participating in the first Energy Nanotechnology International Conference (ENIC2006) held in June, 2006. Read more from this article at Green Car Congress
2. Nanotech key to future energy solutions, says Nobelist - A global-scale energy crisis looms ahead, according to Nobel laureate Richard E. Smalley, who said that nanotechnology will figure centrally in providing technological solutions. – Energy Bulletin, May 2003
3. Infinite Energy - the international magazine for Cold Fusion and New Energy Technologies. It is a technical magazine that includes some technical papers and patents. It also includes non-technical articles and news on developments in the field, as well as the social, political, and economic implications of these changes
4. Renewable and energy efficiency breakthroughs turn science fiction into fact - Goals of environmentally friendly energy and reduced U.S. dependence on imported fossil fuel have encouraged some recent advances in existing technologies have resulted in alternative fuel source development or more efficient energy use. This section has a list of technology breakthroughs in the alternative energy domain. From Energy Services Bulletin, Dec 2003
5. Nine critical questions to ask about alternative energy – an interesting and useful article that provides a list of criteria to be used to distinguish genuinely good alternative technology – From the Wilderness, May 2003
6. Clean Production Of Coke From Waste Carbonaceous Fines - In the United States, the demand for coke used for fuel exceeds domestic supply. A new process that produces coke from waste carbonaceous fines will increase the U.S. supply of coke and provide a less expensive fuel for the steel industry. The process is projected to provide the means to produce about 10 million tons of coke per year. The clean production of coke from waste carbonaceous fines offers an alternative to conventional coke production, says this Feb 2002, US Department of Energy report (PDF)
7. US Department of Energy’s Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy Inventions & Innovations section; see also this section (PDF)
8. Innovation in Energy Technology – Comparing National Innovation Systems at the Sectoral Level – a book by the Organization for Economic Co-operation & Development – from Google Book Search
9. Pioneering Coal Gasification Plants – from US Department of Energy web site; Coal gasification-based power concepts got their biggest boost in the 1990s when the U.S. Department of Energy's Clean Coal Technology Program provided federal cost-sharing for the first true commercial-scale IGCC plants in the United States.
10. Pioneering Technology - is an energy smart product innovation company that creates platform and derivative technologies that manage, control and/or transform heat into other useful forms of energy.
11. Nanotechnology 'fertile' for energy breakthrough - Thinking small may help solve one of the world's biggest problems -- the need for alternative energy sources -- according to scientists attending the first Energy Nanotechnology International Conference held June 2006 at MIT, Boston. Key words, organizations & personalities mentioned - Claude Canizares, MIT's Bruno Rossi Professor of Physics, American Society of Mechanical Engineers' (ASME) Nanotechnology Institute; Photovoltaics; MIT's Vladimir Bulovic; nanodots and nanorods are potentially "disruptive" technologies in the solar field;quantum dot photovoltaics using a microcontact printing process; Michael Graetzel, professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland; MIT Institute Professor Mildred Dresselhaus; Advanced Materials; nanowire-based dye-sensitized solar cells, heat transfer enhancement in nanofluids, hydrogen storage and electrochemical conversion and storage; ASME Journal of Heat Transfer.
    

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