Archive for February, 2008
Next Entries »Science News: Carbon capture strategy could lead to emission-free cars
Monday, February 11th, 2008Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have come up with a strategy to capture, store and recycle carbon from vehicles to stop CO2 from entering the atmosphere. Realization of this strategy could lead to a zero emission car, and a transportation system completely free of fossil fuels.
The team is working to create both […]
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The Power Plant in Your Pants
Sunday, February 10th, 2008With a title like that, how can I let this go by?
According to Information Week, a team of researchers from the University of Michigan, Simon Fraser University in Canada and the University of Pittsburgh have developed a knee brace that captures energy from a moving knee, similar to the way a Prius recharges its batteries […]
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Upcoming distributed computing project - The Clean Energy Project
Friday, February 8th, 2008Don’t know what Distributed Computing is? It’s when a very large computational problem is broken down into very small parts and farmed out to thousands of personal computers. Each PC works on their separate part of the problem and then sends the answers back to the program where the individual solutions are […]
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Virgin jet to use biofuel blend in test flight
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008According to the San Francisco Chronicle, sometime this month a Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747-400 will be powered by biofuel during a flight from London to Amsterdam. It will be the first time a commercial aircraft has flown on biofuel.
Sir Richard Branson, the founder of Virgin Atlantic, teamed up with Boeing and GE Aviation […]
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China joins search for fusion energy
Tuesday, February 5th, 2008China announced last month that it was joining up as a partner in the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) - the nuclear fusion reactor that is being built in France. The project hopes to go online by 2016. China will contribute 1.4 billion dollars, which equals about 10% of the expected cost. […]
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Australian CSIRO researchers can turn green waste into fuel
Monday, February 4th, 2008CSIRO and Monash University researchers have developed a process called Furafuel that can be used to produce gasoline and diesel fuel from “green waste”, i.e. forest trimmings, crop residues, and waste paper, most of which currently ends up in landfills.
“By making changes to the chemical process, we’ve been able to create a concentrated bio-crude which […]
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Autoblog - First details on the GMC Denali XT - a 4door, flex fuel, hybrid Ute
Saturday, February 2nd, 2008Autoblog has lots of the details surrounding the GMC Denali XT concept Ute that is powered by a flex-fuel (E85 ethanol capable) direct-injected hybrid engine rated at 326 horsepower, and designed to get 50% better gas mileage than an equivalent conventional engine. The first public showing of the Denali XT should be next week […]
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