Monday, November 17th, 2008
DARPA is funding research devoted to the affordable production of a surrogate for petroleum based military jet fuel (JP-8) from agricultural or aquacultural crops that are non-competitive with food material.
The current solicitation expands the scope of the BioFuels program described in BAA06-43 to additionally focus on: (1) processes for ...
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Sunday, October 26th, 2008
The Human Pump
Gunwook Nam, an innovative designer from Seoul, South Korea, recently received one of three awards from San Francisco’s Urban Re:Vision for his innovative "Human Pump" design featured above. The design uses human foot traffic to power a system of pumps that bring fresh drinking water to the surface.
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Saturday, October 25th, 2008
R&D Magazine has awarded two of its annual breakthrough invention awards to solar energy technologies developed at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado.
The first is an ultra-light, highly efficient solar cell called the Inverted Metamorphic Multi-Junction solar cell. The second is a process that uses ink-jet printing to ...
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Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
The Center for Revolutionary Solar Photoconversion, a new research program at the Colorado Renewable Energy Collaboratory, has invested in a dozen next-generation solar energy research project.
The Center concentrates on ways to directly convert the sun's energy to clean, low-cost electricity and fuels, a research area called Solar Photoconversion. The ...
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Sunday, September 21st, 2008
Hybrid lighting is a new frontier in solar energy. The U.S. Department of Energy has pioneered the new technology at its Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. Unlike conventional solar technologies, hybrid lighting does not convert sunlight into electricity. Instead, hybrid lighting uses sunlight into optical fibers that carry the ...
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Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
Ionic liquids are the key to an explosive called TATB (1,3,5-triamino-2,4,6-trinitrobenzene)
Better crystals has enabled the emergence of new explosive materials that are safer when exposed to heat or handled roughly.
The breakthrough technology was developed by researchers the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California and appears on the cover of the ...
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Sunday, August 24th, 2008
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A new process has made it possible to control characteristics of the light coming from quantum dots with laser technologies, according to a report last week from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland's Joint Quantum Institute (JQI).
Researchers at NIST and JQI have developed ...
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Thursday, August 14th, 2008
Proposed Nondefense R&D Funding
Total nondefense R&D budget authority is scheduled to increase by $1.6 billion, to $58.5 billion in FY 2009. The nondefense share of federal R&D budget authority decreased from 43% in FY 2004 to 40% in FY 2007 but rose to an estimated 41% for both FY 2008 ...
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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
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Scientists have achieved a new world record in solar cell efficiency today. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory has designed a photovoltaic device that converts 40.8 percent of the light that hits it into electricity, the highest confirmed efficiency of any photovoltaic device to date.
The inverted metamorphic triple-junction solar cell ...
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