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Photoconductors Get Green Shine Thanks to Zinc Oxide

Photodetectors - devices found in cell phones, digital cameras and other consumer gadgets that utilize photoconducting materials - are a green technology in performance (converting light into electricity), but the manufacture of very powerful photodetectors needs to be improved before they can qualify for solid green status

24 Mar 2009

Future Energy Losses Could Be Cut By USing New Material

Scientists at the University of Liverpool and Durham University have developed a new material to further understanding of how superconductors could be used to transmit electricity to built-up areas and reduce global energy losses

24 Mar 2009

Perovskite to Bring Benefits to Fuel Cells, Carbon Dioxide Storage and Nanoelectronics

A new PhD thesis shows that the multifaceted material perovskite could be of benefit in three key applications, fuel cells, gas separation prior to the storage of carbon dioxide and nanocomponents in electronic products

23 Mar 2009

Energy Research Collaboration Between Europe and Japan Strengthened

The European Commission and Japan are going to deepen their collaboration in energy research

23 Mar 2009

Green Building and Sustainable Development Projects Can Now Qualify for Six or More LEED Credits by Using VAST Composite Masonry Products

VAST Enterprises, LLC, a material science research and manufacturing company, announced that using its composite pavers in construction applications can contribute to six or more LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) credits

23 Mar 2009

Environmental Pioneers Sought For World's Greenest Building

Independence Station, the Oregon development slated to become the World's Greenest Building when it opens in 2010, is now accepting priority pre-reservations for the 15 condominium-style homes included in the mixed-use development

23 Mar 2009

Actor Richard Dreyfuss Makes Eco-friendly Renovation and Expansion of His San Diego House

Actor Richard Dreyfuss has chosen the San Diego-based architecture and design firm S.K.I.N. to renovate and environmentally upgrade his 1970s Encinitas residence and property in order to cut his water and power bill to near-zero

23 Mar 2009

Clean, Sustainable Bridge to Global Energy Future May Come From "Ice That Burns"

Natural gas derived from chunks of ice that workers collect from beneath the ocean floor and beneath the arctic permafrost may fuel cars, heat homes, and power factories. Researchers are reporting these "gas hydrates" or frozen natural gas, show promise as an abundant, untapped source of clean, sustainable energy

23 Mar 2009

Oak Ridge National Laboratory to Get $71.2 Million in Recovery Act Funding

Oak Ridge National Laboratory officials announced today that construction will start in eight to 10 weeks on a major research facility made possible by $71.2 million from President Obama’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

23 Mar 2009

New Evidence Emerges For The Existence of Cold Fusion Energy and a New Energy Source

Researchers are reporting compelling new scientific evidence for the existence of low-energy nuclear reactions (LENR), the process once called "cold fusion" that may promise a new source of energy

23 Mar 2009