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energy
Fuel Cell Power - GOVERNMENT ACTION TO BUILD A LOW CARBON ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE
Submitted by frank on Wed, 10/06/2010 - 14:58.IEEE launches smart-grid standards project
Submitted by frank on Sun, 05/17/2009 - 03:29.http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.d...
It could serve as the foundation for an IT-driven upgrade of the electricity grid
By Grant Gross
May 4, 2009 12:00 PM ET
IDG News Service - The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers has launched a new project to create standards and interoperability for the so-called smart grid, an IT-driven upgrade of the electricity grid.
Inhabitat » Free Energy Modeling for Google Sketchup!
Submitted by frank on Mon, 09/15/2008 - 19:12.http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/09/15/integrate...
Integrated Environmental Solutions (IES) recently revealed a free plug-in for Google SketchUp that will allow anyone to perform energy modeling on projects. The powerful plugin will allow anyone to analyze a building’s energy performance, carbon dioxide emissions, daylighting, air flow, solar analysis, and more, providing functionality that was only previously available in Autodesk’s Revit Architecture and Revit MEP.
NanoVentSkin
Submitted by frank on Sat, 06/21/2008 - 14:41.http://nanoventskin.blogspot.com/
The outer skin of the structure absorbs sunlight through an organic photovoltaic skin and transfers it to the nano-fibers inside the nano-wires which then is sent to storage units at the end of each panel.
Each turbine on the panel generates energy by chemical reactions on each end where it makes contact with the structure. Polarized organisms are responsible for this process on every turbine’s turn.
The inner skin of each turbine works as a filter absorbing CO2 from the environment as wind passes through it.
Rice University | News & Media
Submitted by frank on Fri, 03/21/2008 - 15:25.http://www.media.rice.edu/media/NewsBot.asp?M...
Hydrogen could be a clean, abundant energy source, but it's difficult to store in bulk. In new research, materials scientists at Rice University have made the surprising discovery that tiny carbon capsules called buckyballs are so strong they can hold volumes of hydrogen nearly as dense as those at the center of Jupiter.
The research appears on the March 2008 cover of the American Chemical Society's journal Nano Letters.
EETimes.com - Silicon compound superconducts at room temperature
Submitted by frank on Thu, 03/20/2008 - 01:48.http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticl...
PORTLAND, Ore. A new superconducting material fabricated by a Canadian-German team has been fabricated out of a silicon-hydrogen compound and does not require cooling.
Instead of super-cooling the material, as is necessary for conventional superconductors, the new material is instead super-compressed. The researchers claim that the new material could sidestep the cooling requirement, thereby enabling superconducting wires that work at room temperature.
