News tagged with blue energy

UT biosolar breakthrough promises cheap, easy green electricity

Barry D. Bruce, professor of biochemistry, cellular and molecular biology, at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is turning the term "power plant" on its head. The biochemist and a team of researchers have developed ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Researchers model potential of toxic algae photoreceptors

Blue-green algae is causing havoc in Midwestern lakes saturated with agricultural run-off, but researchers in a northwest Ohio lab are using supercomputers to study a closely related strain of the toxic cyanobacteria ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists collaborate to improve energy transmission for more efficient grids

Scientists at IBM and ABB, the world's largest builder of electricity grids, are using supercomputers to study and potentially develop a new type of high-voltage insulator that will improve the efficiency ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Nov 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Report: IBM supercomputer is the most energy efficient in the world

An IBM supercomputer is the most energy efficient supercomputer in the world, according to the latest Supercomputing 'Green500 List' announced by Green500.org. A prototype of IBM's next generation Blue Gene/Q supercomputer ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Jul 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Blue whale-sized mouthfuls make foraging super efficient

How much can a blue whale eat in a single mouthful and how much energy do they burn while foraging? These are the questions that Bob Shadwick from the University of British Columbia, Canada, and his colleagues ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 09, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Report: IBM Supercomputers Are Most Energy Efficient in the World

IBM supercomputers are the most energy efficient in the world, according to the latest Supercomputing 'Green500 List' announced by Green500.org.

Electronics / Hardware

created Jul 02, 2010 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 2

Boosting the amount of energy obtained from water

The energy generated in places where fresh water and salt water meet is known as blue energy. This is a relatively new but highly promising renewable energy source. Piotr Długołęcki of the University ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 1

'Blue energy' seems feasible and offers considerable benefits

Generating energy on a large scale by mixing salt and fresh water is both technically possible and practical. The worldwide potential for this clean form of energy - 'blue energy' or 'blue electricity' - is enormous. However, ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 0

ALCF working to get more science per watt

Cooling a supercomputer consumes more electricity than is required to run the machine, even machines as powerful as the IBM Blue Gene/P—called Intrepid—at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory. ...

Technology / Other

created Apr 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0