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An alternative fusion project has been kicked off in Europe that would seek abundant clean energy using a colossal laser the size of a football stadium.
The laser would tap the energy by squeezing together atoms of hydrogen - a process very similar to the one that powers the Sun.
Europe is already engaged in the Iter [...]

 
PARIS — Standing in the middle of his company’s display stand here at the Paris Motor Show, Gildo Pastor, chief executive of Venturi Automobiles, ran his hands through his thick black hair and let out a sigh.
His day had been crazy, he explained. Traffic had been crazy. Preparations for the show were crazy. In fact, [...]

With the high cost of gasoline and diesel fuel impacting costs for automobiles, trucks, buses and the overall economy, a Temple University physics professor has developed a simple device which could dramatically improve fuel efficiency as much as 20 percent.
According to Rongjia Tao, Chair of Temple’s Physics Department, the small device consists of an electrically [...]

The rising interest in vehicles powered by electricity — either part-time, as in hybrids like the Toyota Prius, or in battery-only cars like the Tesla Roadster — has increased the pressure to develop more efficient devices to store the power. Progress has been steady, but huge breakthroughs have not emerged from the research labs.
The baby-step [...]

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Bacteria found in compost heaps able to convert waste plant fibre into ethanol could eventually provide up 10% of the UK’s transport fuel needs, scientists heard September 9, 2008 at the Society for General Microbiology’s Autumn meeting being held at Trinity College, Dublin.
Researchers from Guildford, UK, have successfully developed a new strain [...]