News tagged with fuel source

Will Bloom box replace power grid? Details on Wednesday (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- The hot energy news for this week comes in the form of a small box called the Bloom box, whose inventor hopes that it will be in almost every US home in the next five to 10 years. K.R. Sridhar, ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Feb 23, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (71) | comments 58 | with audio podcast report

New hope for ultimate clean energy: fusion power

(PhysOrg.com) -- Imagine if you could generate electricity using nuclear power that emitted no radioactivity: it would be the answer to the world's dream of finding a clean, sustainable energy source.

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 12, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (58) | comments 65 | with audio podcast

Study claims 100 percent renewable energy possible by 2030

(PhysOrg.com) -- New research has shown that it is possible and affordable for the world to achieve 100 percent renewable energy by 2030, if there is the political will to strive for this goal.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jan 19, 2011 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (60) | comments 101 | with audio podcast report

Britain launches renewables drive to cut emissions

Britain announced plans Wednesday to slash emissions with a huge increase in the use of renewable energy to generate one third of the country's electricity needs by 2020.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jul 15, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (34) | comments 2

5 Sources of Alternative Energy You May Not Have Heard Of

(PhysOrg.com) -- As fossil fuels increasingly fall out of favor, many are looking into alternative energy sources to help us power our lives with a smaller impact on the environment. You already know about ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Feb 04, 2010 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (37) | comments 17 | with audio podcast weblog

Breakthrough in hydrogen fuel cells: Chemists develop way to safely store, extract hydrogen

A team of USC scientists has developed a robust, efficient method of using hydrogen as a fuel source.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Aug 30, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (29) | comments 79 | with audio podcast

Silicon nanohole solar cells aim to make photovoltaics cost-competitive

(PhysOrg.com) -- Due to the increasing demand for renewable energy sources, photovoltaic solar cells have advanced significantly over the past decade. Since 2002, photovoltaic production worldwide has been ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created May 07, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (26) | comments 13 | with audio podcast feature

Solar thermal process produces cement with no carbon dioxide emissions

(Phys.org) -- While the largest contributor to anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions is the power industry, the second largest is the more often overlooked cement industry, which accounts for 5-6% of all ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Apr 10, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (25) | comments 22 | with audio podcast report

Shifting the world to 100 percent clean, renewable energy as early as 2030 -- here are the numbers

Most of the technology needed to shift the world from fossil fuel to clean, renewable energy already exists. Implementing that technology requires overcoming obstacles in planning and politics, but doing so ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (31) | comments 21

Discovery paves way for development of efficient, inexpensive plastic solar cells

Physicists at Rutgers University have discovered new properties in a material that could result in efficient and inexpensive plastic solar cells for pollution-free electricity production.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Oct 10, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (20) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Easing Atmospheric CO2 Levels Using Nanotubes and Sunlight

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at The Pennsylvania State University have determined a way to use arrays of nanotubes in a solar-based process to convert carbon dioxide and water into methane and other hydrocarbon ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Feb 16, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (23) | comments 32 feature

Japan nano-tech team creates palladium-like alloy: report

Japanese researchers have created an alloy with properties similar to palladium, a precious metal used in many high-tech goods, a news report said Thursday, dubbing the breakthrough "present-day alchemy".

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Dec 30, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (19) | comments 14

What's Smelly But Can Fuel a Car?

Driving home from a seminar on fuel cell technology, Gerardine Botte was struck with a notion. Her idea was based on water electrolysis, a process used to produce hydrogen energy from water. Botte, an associate ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (18) | comments 16

Novel solar reactor may enable clean fuel derived from sunlight

Producing hydrogen from non-fossil fuel sources is a problem that continues to elude many scientists but University of Delaware’s Erik Koepf thinks he may have discovered a solution.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Apr 04, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (18) | comments 0

Jellyfish protein could be used to power nanodevices

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers in Sweden have been liquidizing thousands of specimens of a common North American jellyfish to extract a protein that could be used in microscopic fuel cells.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Oct 07, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (12) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report