News tagged with zero energy

Calif. settlement will fund car charging network

(AP) -- An energy company accused of artificially inflating the cost of electricity, leading to California's power crisis a decade ago, agreed to pay a $120 million settlement that will fund 10,000 electric car charging ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Mar 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Portable chargers, boosters to ease green car woes

Chevrolet Europe's president Susan Doherty drives to work every day in an electric car, and thanks to a recharging station at work, she never worries about running out of power.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Mar 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Karma hybrid car offers earth-friendly luxury

Technology lovers stopped and stared as the world's first high-performance hybrid luxury sedan glided silently down a street outside the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Wednesday.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (6) | comments 3

In Seattle, work starts on 'greenest' office building

These days, there are plenty of "green" buildings, with solar heating, insulated windows, self-generated electricity. But what would it take to construct an office building at competitive leasing rates that generated its ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Sep 01, 2011 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 3

Etch-a-sketch with superconductors

Reporting in Nature Materials this week, researchers from the London Centre for Nanotechnology and the Physics Department of Sapienza University of Rome have discovered a technique to 'draw' superconducting shapes ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Aug 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

How do you make lithium melt in the cold?

Sophisticated tools allow scientists to subject the basic elements of matter to conditions drastic enough to modify their behavior. By doing this, they can expand our understanding of matter. A research team including three ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jan 10, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Demonstration project to store CO2 underground in China

CSIRO (Australia) is partnering with China United Coalbed Methane Corporation Limited (CUCBM) on a A$10 million joint demonstration project that will store 2000 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) underground in the Shanxi Pro ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jul 20, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Improvement of superconductors within reach

An international group of physicists from the University of Augsburg in Germany, the University of Florida in Gainesville, and the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen have succeeded in creating ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Jul 09, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (17) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Physicists' findings about helium could lead to more accurate temperature measurements

In the May 7 edition of Physical Review Letters an international team led by University of Delaware researchers reports new findings about helium that may lead to more accurate standards for how temperature and pr ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 17, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (9) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Controlling the interaction between light and matter

(PhysOrg.com) -- "One of the most exciting things about this is that it gives us nice, clean control over the interaction between light and matter," William Kelly tells PhysOrg.com. "Our technique has the potential to giv ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 30, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (19) | comments 22 | with audio podcast feature

Going net zero -- for effect; special home will produce as much energy as it uses

Michael Yannell's ComEd bill is almost surely less than yours. Yannell, 44, lives in a new Chicago home that is designed to be net zero energy, which means it will produce as much energy than it consumes -- or more. The $1.6 ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jul 28, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Surveillance vehicles take flight using alternative energy

Nearly undetectable from the ground, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are widely used by the military to scan terrain for possible threats and intelligence. Now, fuel cell powered UAVs are taking flight as ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Mar 30, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 5