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Panasonic to begin mass-production of long-life lithium-ion battery system for solar-powered homes in Europe

Panasonic Corporation announced today that it will start in June mass-production of a compact, secure and long-life lithium-ion battery system the company has developed for European homes. This marks the first time for the ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

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Climate change expert: Australia will go nuclear by 2030

A University of Adelaide scientist believes it is inevitable that Australia will become a user of the world's most advanced nuclear power technology, if the country is serious about cutting carbon emissions.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created 11 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 5

New small solid oxide fuel cell reaches record efficiency

Individual homes and entire neighborhoods could be powered with a new, small-scale solid oxide fuel cell system that achieves up to 57 percent efficiency, significantly higher than the 30 to 50 percent efficiencies ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 31, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (27) | comments 82 | with audio podcast

SLAC X-ray laser used to probe biomolecules to individual atoms

An international team led by SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has proved how the world's most powerful X-ray laser can assist in cracking the structures of biomolecules, and in the processes helped to ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Development of nonvolatile white light-emitting liquid that is coatable on diverse range of materials

A Japanese research team headed by Dr. Takashi Nakanishi of the National Institute for Materials Science developed a nonvolatile liquid material which emits white light at room temperature.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created May 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Lower energy could lead to more biological imaging at LCLS

While SLAC's Linac Coherent Light Source was designed to push the limits as a high-energy X-ray laser, users' requests have led staff at the facility to successfully step it back to a lower minimum energy ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Graetzel cells are implanted in an iPad keyboard

Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC) from EPFL enter the public market. Logitech chose this technology to power its new flagship product.

Technology / Engineering

created May 29, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Goldman to plow $40 bn into green energy

Wall Street giant Goldman Sachs plans to invest $40 billion into projects linked to renewable energy over the next decade, a company spokesman said Thursday.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 25, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Android vulnerability neutralised

Smart phones and tablet computers - once the latest must-have devices for technology geeks - are becoming increasingly more popular with the mainstream. The Android platform is now one of the most popular ...

Technology / Software

created May 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Apple says data center will be all green

Apple says its $1 billion data center in Maiden, N.C., will include a second large solar farm to help power the site entirely by renewable energy by the end of this year.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 21, 2012 | popularity 1.6 / 5 (7) | comments 0

300,000 times the strength of the Earth's magnetic field: BLADE's new 14 Tesla magnet

The first researchers to use the new high-field superconducting magnet at Diamond Light Source, the UK’s national synchrotron facility, are searching for “hidden magnetic states”. If found, ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 17, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (19) | comments 4

Engineers aim to boost the future of renewable energy by collecting solar power in space

Solar power gathered in space could be set to provide the renewable energy of the future thanks to innovative research being carried out by engineers at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 16, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (6) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Graphite enters different states of matter

(Phys.org) -- For the first time, scientists have seen an X-ray-irradiated mineral go to two different states of matter in about 40 femtoseconds (a femtosecond is one quadrillionth of a second).

Physics / Condensed Matter

created May 16, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Getting news from the Internet not as divisive as many assume

The Internet is changing the way people get their news, but there's little proof that it is fragmenting or polarizing the news audience the way many assume, says professor David Tewksbury, the head of the ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 16, 2012 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 1

The use of acoustic inversion to estimate the bubble size distribution in pipelines

New research from the University of Southampton has devised a new method to more accurately measure gas bubbles in pipelines.

Physics / General Physics

created May 15, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0