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Breakthrough Product Dramatically Reduces Waste and Mailing Costs

ecoEnvelopes, the developers of innovative reusable envelopes designed to conserve natural resources and reduce costs, have received a key National Customer Ruling from the US Postal Service (USPS).

20 Feb 2008

Company-Wide Mission to Practice Green Innovations

AU Optronics Corp. today unveiled its "Green Solutions" initiative, a company-wide mission to practice green innovations, green procurement, green production, green logistics, green service, and green recycling that are all created and used in an environmentally friendly manner.

20 Feb 2008

Second-Generation STP2 Enables Improved Power Efficiency in Battery Packs

Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC), a committed leader that collaborates with technology companies to create breakthrough designs, today announced the availability of its second-generation Smart Thin Package (STP2) surface mount packaging for power MOSFETs.

20 Feb 2008

Current Solar Photovoltaic Technology is Not Economic

Despite increasing popular support for solar photovoltaic panels in the United States, their costs far outweigh the benefits, according to a new analysis by Severin Borenstein, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley's Haas School of Business and director of the UC Energy Institute.

20 Feb 2008

Collecting and Presenting Environmental Findings in a Virtual Environment

The Virginia Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Commission has awarded a $1.2 million grant to Virginia Tech Outreach and International Affairs.

20 Feb 2008

New Greener Power Supply for Vehicles

Cardiff University researchers are exploring how waste heat from car exhausts could provide a new greener power supply for vehicles.

20 Feb 2008

Warming Air Temperatures Fueling Loss of Island's Ice

A new NASA study confirms that the surface temperature of Greenland's massive ice sheet has been rising, stoked by warming air temperatures, and fueling loss of the island's ice at the surface and throughout the mass beneath.

20 Feb 2008

Global Biopact on Biofuels

A GLOBAL Biofuels Biopact between rich and poor countries can help alleviate poverty in the developing world while helping to solve the problems of global warming and energy security in the developed world, says a new paper in the journal Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining published by SCI and John Wiley & Sons.

20 Feb 2008

Energy Company Creating Twice the Carbon Pollution as Conventional Diesel Fuel

The global environmental movement seems to be stuck in a pattern: two steps forward, one step back. Case in point is this week’s news that a Chinese energy company is ready to open a chemical plant that uses coal to make synthetic diesel fuel, which creates almost twice the carbon pollution as conventional diesel fuel.

20 Feb 2008

Using Tiny Particles to Clean Water

Tiny particles of pure silica coated with an active material could be used to remove toxic chemicals, bacteria, viruses, and other hazardous materials from water much more effectively and at lower cost than conventional water purification methods, according to researchers writing in the current issue of the International Journal of Nanotechnology.

20 Feb 2008

Making Solar Energy a Reality

A University of Southampton academic will talk about his plans to make solar energy a reality, on BBC Radio 4's Material World tomorrow (Thursday 21st February).

20 Feb 2008

Designing CLeaner Fuel Injectors Using High-Energy X-Ray

Standard microscopy and visible light imaging techniques cannot peer into the dark and murky centers of dense-liquid jets, which has hindered scientists in their quest for a full understanding of liquid breakup in devices such as automobile fuel injectors.

20 Feb 2008