Houston TX (SPX) Apr 07, 2005 - Your car's engine loses 70 percent of its energy as waste heat - but Australian and Oregon scientists may have figured out an efficient way not only to recover that lost energy, but to at long last capture the power-producing potential of geothermal heat.
Honeoye Falls NY (SPX) Apr 07, 2005 - General Motors and the U.S. Army announced last Thursday they are partnering to introduce the world's first fuel cell-powered truck into U.S. military service.
Beijing (AFP) Apr 06, 2005 - China and the United States last Wednesday inked a five-year government-to-government agreement to extend cooperation in fossil fuels with the focus on clean energy technologies.
Tokyo (AFP) Apr 04, 2005 - Corporate Japan is making strides in sustainable development, slashing the use of lead and other toxic substances in industry, embracing solar energy and making biodegradable plastic out of sugar beets.
Los Alamos NM (SPX) Apr 04, 2005 - University of California scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory working with a researcher from Chonnam National University in South Korea have found that magnetic fluctuations appear to be responsible for superconductivity in a compound called plutonium-cobalt-pentagallium (PuCoGa5).
Chicago IL (SPX) Apr 04, 2005 - A research team that in 2003 created an exotic new form of matter has now shown for the first time how to arrange that matter into complex molecules.
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 31, 2005 - Researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are taking a new approach to filling up a fuel cell car with a nanoscale solid, hydrogen storage material.
Tokyo (AFP) Mar 29, 2005 - Leading Japanese electronics maker Toshiba said Tuesday it has developed a light and thin prototype battery that recharges 80 percent of capacity in just a minute.
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 29, 2005 - Quasiparticles carry energy in condensed matter. In the world of quasiparticle physics, understanding when and how these energy carriers fail opens doors to another level of understanding, and can lead the way to many new and important theories.
Champaign IL (SPX) Mar 29, 2005 - Theoretical understanding of heavy-fermion superconductors has just slipped a notch or two, says a team of experimentalists.
Champaign IL (SPX) Mar 28, 2005 - Scientists seeking to explain high-temperature superconductivity have been violating the Pauli exclusion principle, a team of researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Rutgers University report. Any theory that does not embrace the Pauli principle has a lot of explaining to do, they say.
Champaign IL (SPX) Mar 28, 2005 - A fuel cell designed by researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign can operate without a solid membrane separating fuel and oxidant, and functions with alkaline chemistry in addition to the more common acidic chemistry.
Gaspe QC (SPX) Mar 21, 2005 - Canada's wind-power capacity, already the fastest-growing form of electricity generation in Canada, took another significant step forward last week with the announcement of funding for two new wind-power projects in Murdochville, Quebec.
Victoria, Australia (SPX) Mar 17, 2005 - Dr Sukhvinder Badwal's CSIRO research team is developing a compact, lightweight battery that could power a laptop computer for up to 24 hours, or a mobile phone for up to a month, before requiring a recharge.
West Lafayette IN (SPX) Mar 16, 2005 - Chemical engineers at Purdue University have made a discovery that may help to improve a promising low-polluting energy technology that combusts natural gas more cleanly than conventional methods.
Taipei (AFP) Mar 15, 2005 - A core reactor at Taiwan's controversial fourth nuclear power plant will be installed Friday, marking a major milestone towards completion of the project, state-run Taiwan Power (Taipower) said Tuesday.
