Champaign IL (SPX) Feb 26, 2014 - A multi-institutional team reports that it can increase sugarcane's geographic range, boost its photosynthetic rate by 30 percent and turn it into an oil-producing crop for biodiesel production.
Paris (AFP) Feb 26, 2014 - Huge offshore wind farms can protect vulnerable coastal cities against devastating cyclones like Katrina and Sandy by tempering winds and ocean surges before they reach land, a study said Wednesday.
Berkeley CA (SPX) Feb 25, 2014 - A building owner changes the building's thermostat setting, allowing the indoor temperature to increase a couple of degrees for an entire afternoon. But how much energy was actually saved? To know t
Madison WI (SPX) Feb 24, 2014 - Generating electricity is not the only way to turn sunlight into energy we can use on demand. The sun can also drive reactions to create chemical fuels, such as hydrogen, that can in turn power cars
London UK (SPX) Feb 24, 2014 - The UK has a target of generating 15 per cent of the nation's energy from renewable resources such as wind farms by 2020. There are currently 4,246 individual wind turbines in the UK across 531 wind
Joensuu, Finland (SPX) Feb 24, 2014 - Nowadays, humanity faces many challenges; the most serious are poverty, the growing demand for resources and the deterioration of the environment. In order to satisfy the growing demand for wood, fo
Richland WA (SPX) Feb 23, 2014 - Scientists have created a microbattery that packs twice the energy compared to current microbatteries used to monitor the movements of salmon through rivers in the Pacific Northwest and around the w
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 23, 2014 - Electronics are getting smaller all the time, but there's a limit to how tiny they can get with today's materials. Researchers now say, however, that they have developed a way to shrink capacitors -
mLondon, UK (SPX) Feb 23, 2014 - New technology to capture the kinetic energy of our everyday movements, such as walking, and to convert it into electrical energy has come a step closer thanks to research to be published in the Int
Oak Ridge TN (SPX) Feb 23, 2014 - Using a new microscopy method, researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory can image and measure electrochemical processes in batteries in real time and at nanoscale reso
Berkeley CA (SPX) Feb 23, 2014 - Duckweed is a tiny floating plant that's been known to drive people daffy. It's one of the smallest and fastest-growing flowering plants that often becomes a hard-to-control weed in ponds and small
Washington (AFP) Feb 23, 2014 - The US Supreme Court will weigh efforts Monday by President Barack Obama's administration to regulate greenhouse gases, which industry groups and Republican-led states are labeling gross overreach.
Golden CO (SPX) Feb 21, 2014 - A new study published in the journal Science says that the total impact of switching to natural gas depends heavily on leakage of methane (CH4) during the natural gas life cycle, and suggests that m
Manchester, UK (SPX) Feb 20, 2014 - The UK could generate almost half its energy needs from biomass sources, including household waste, agricultural residues and home-grown biofuels by 2050, new research suggests. Scientists fro
Baghdad (AFP) Feb 19, 2014 - Iraq's oil exports fell in January compared to the month before due to bad weather and sabotage by militants, the oil ministry said on Wednesday.
Menlo Park CA (SPX) Feb 19, 2014 - An electrode designed like a pomegranate - with silicon nanoparticles clustered like seeds in a tough carbon rind - overcomes several remaining obstacles to using silicon for a new generation of lit
