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Tech News Watch - Jun 17, 2008
An international research team led by Swedish Professor Rajeev Ahuja, Uppsala University, has demonstrated an atomistic mechanism of hydrogen release in magnesium nanoparticles — a potential hydrogen storage material …
Also tagged: alternative energy, hydrogen, hydrogen storage
Tech News Watch - Jun 13, 2008
Diesel fuel prices approaching $5 a gallon — and the resulting economic impact on products transported by truck — have created renewed interest in fuel-saving technologies developed during the past decade at the …
Also tagged: alternative energy, fuel, gas prices, energy conservation
Tech News Watch - Jun 10, 2008
A mud volcano that has caused millions of dollars worth of damage was caused by the drilling of a gas exploration well, an international team of scientists has concluded. The two-year old mud volcano, Lusi, is still …
Also tagged: science, indonesia, mud volcano, gas exploration, east java, lusi, yogyakarta earthquake, banjar panji 1
Tech News Watch - Jun 10, 2008
A broken cable or a soiled connector? If a machine in a factory goes on strike, it could be for any of a thousand reasons. Self-sufficient sensors that provide their own power supply will soon make these machines more …
Also tagged: technology, battery, sensor, piezoelectric, power socket
Tech News Watch - Jun 2, 2008
The pipes that rise from oil fields, topped with burning flames of natural gas, waste fossil fuels and dump carbon dioxide into the air. In new work, researchers have identified the structure of a catalytic material …
Also tagged: environment, methane, co2, carbon dioxide
Tech News Watch - May 31, 2008
In recent years, a growing scarcity of energy commodities worldwide has heightened concerns about key geopolitical risks and threats, such as conflict in the Middle East, terrorism and resource nationalism. However, a …
Also tagged: society, fuel, energy conservation, energy market
Tech News Watch - May 30, 2008
A process used to roast coffee beans could give Britain’s biomass a power boost, increasing the energy content of some of the UK’s leading energy crops by up to 20 per cent. The study, carried out by engineers from …
Also tagged: alternative fuel, biofuel, biomass
Tech News Watch - May 21, 2008
A materials scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has deciphered the structure of a new class of materials that can store relatively large quantities of hydrogen within its crystal …
Also tagged: hydrogen, alternative fuel, future energy
Tech News Watch - May 16, 2008
Can a profit-boosting approach save energy too? Could a business practice usually reserved for boosting profits be used to help turn companies green by reducing their energy use? Writing in the International Journal …
Also tagged: environment, green, sustainability, energy conservation
Tech News Watch - May 16, 2008
MIT engineers have improved the power output of one type of fuel cell by more than 50 percent through technology that could help these environmentally friendly energy storage devices find a much broader market …
Also tagged: fuel cell, alternative energy, dmfc