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Green Heating and Cooling Technology Turns Carbon from Eco-Villain to Hero

Carbon is usually typecast as a villain in terms of the environment but researchers at the University of Warwick have devised a novel way to miniaturise a technology that will make carbon a key material in some extremely green heating products for our homes and in air conditioning equipment for our cars.
Most domestic heating and [...]

Promising tests for MotionPower system to generate electricity from traffic

Apparently, the ongoing testing of the MotionPower system for generating electricity from the movement of cars and light trucks – as reported here previously – is paying dividends. New Energy, the company developing the technology, reports it can produce a 25-fold increase in the system’s capacity to capture kinetic energy from moving vehicles, bringing the [...]

Build a Better Bulb for a $10 Million Prize

The ubiquitous but highly inefficient 60-watt light bulb badly needs a makeover. And it could be worth millions in government prize money — and more in government contracts — to the first company that figures out how to do it.

Floating wind turbine launched

The world’s first floating wind turbine is to be towed out to sea this weekend.
Statoil’s Alexandra Beck Gjorv told the BBC the technology, the Hywind, to be put off Norway’s coast – “should help move offshore wind farms out of sight”.
And it could lead to offshore wind farms eventually being located many miles offshore, [...]

Politics in the Guise of Pure Science – Classic Conundrum

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Why, since President Obama promised to “restore science to its rightful place” in Washington, do some things feel not quite right?
First there was Steven Chu, the physicist and new energy secretary, warning The Los Angeles Times that climate change could make water so scarce by century’s end that “there’s no more agriculture in [...]