Sunday, October 26th, 2008
Proposed Climate Change Legislation by Ultimate Reductions Targets
Climate change is riddled with deep uncertainty about basic questions, which results from factors such as lack of information, disagreement about what is known or even knowable, linguistic imprecision, statistical variation, measurement error, approximation and subjective judgment on the structure of the climate ...
Posted in Agriculture, Antarctica, Biofuels, Bioremediation, CCS, Carbon, China, Climate-Change, Natural Resources, Policy, Regulatory and Legal Trends, Research, Sustainability, Water, biomass | No Comments »
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 ...
Posted in Agriculture, Biofuels, Biorefinery, Bioremediation, CCS, Finance, Hedge Funds, Lifecycles, Natural Resources, Policy, Regulatory and Legal Trends, Private Equity, Research, Venture Capital, biomass, ethanol, law | No Comments »
Monday, August 11th, 2008
Runners might soon be able to generate enough electricity to power the treadmill they're running on. The Department of Energy and M2E Power have pioneered a new method of capturing the energy in human motion, which generates electricity from physical movement and stores it in batteries.
The cutting-edge motion-to-energy power ...
Posted in Batteries, Electricity, Energy-Storage, Finance, Lifecycles, Policy, Regulatory and Legal Trends, Research, green-technology, materials | 1 Comment »
Monday, August 11th, 2008
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A swell in new journal papers written by scientists in China leaves little doubt that China has arrived as one of the world's scientific power houses. In a recent article in Physics World, Michael Bankman quantifies the increased in China's scientific output in August's Physics World.
Nanoscience, quantum computing and high-temperature ...
Posted in China, Lifecycles, Nanotechnology, Policy, Regulatory and Legal Trends, Research, materials | No Comments »
Monday, August 4th, 2008
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Wer geladen ist, verändert vielleicht schon mal die Gesichtsfarbe, reißt sich aber nicht gleich einen Arm ab, um ihn als drittes Bein zu montieren. Bei manchen Molekülen ist das anders, zum Beispiel in einem Gold-Cluster mit sieben Atomen. Diese ordnen sich im geladenen Zustand anders an als im ungeladenen, wie ...
Posted in Germany, Nanotechnology, green-technology, materials | No Comments »
Monday, July 28th, 2008
The Department of Energy announced plans to build a new research facility as part of the Sandia Labs Network to suppor the design of a compressed air energy storage (CAES) plant planned near Des Moines, Iowa. The Iowa Stored Energy Park will implement a 30-year-old, little-used technology for energy storage; ...
Posted in Batteries, Electricity, Energy-Storage, Finance | No Comments »
Saturday, July 19th, 2008
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Map of Ocean Wind Power Potential (NASA, 2007)
European scientists have discovered evidence that minute changes in global wind patterns may have initiated the last ice age, according to a new study in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.
Wind patterns appear to have affected tidal currents in the North Atlantic Ocean ...
Posted in Climate-Change, Industry-News, Policy, Regulatory and Legal Trends, Research, Sustainability, Wind-Power | No Comments »
Thursday, June 12th, 2008
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The United States continues to be the leading source of newly patented inventions compared with the EU and Asia.
Despite the growing belief that it has lost its edge, the U.S. is still the 800-pound gorilla in science and technology worldwide, according to a new RAND Corporation report.
The United States accounts ...
Posted in Graphic, Industry-News, Policy, Regulatory and Legal Trends, Research | No Comments »
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
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Ranchers have used GPS technology to monitor cattle movements and location for years, but Daniela Rus, an MIT scientist and 2002 MacArthur Fellow, has set the stage for a revolution in animal husbandry by designing a new device similar to a headset that "whispers" wireless commands to cows (and potentially ...
Posted in Policy, Regulatory and Legal Trends, Research, Solar-Energy, materials | No Comments »
