000 suns The latest in solar power comes to us from Swiss inventors working for Airlight Energy, Dsolar (a subsidiary of Airlight),
it tracks the sun and cools itself by pumping water through its veins like a plant.
this method entails using reflectors to concentrate the sun, as well as highly efficient photovoltaic cells (known as gallium arsenide photovoltaic cells) to convert that concentrated solar energy into electricity.
According to Gianluca Ambrosetti, Airlight's head of research, the Solar Sunflower's reflectors concentrate the sun"to about 5, 000 suns."
000 suns. To counteract this, the Sunflower makes use of a hot water cooling system invented by the project's IBM collaborators.
This amalgamation makes it a terrifically attractive material to apply to scientific developments in a wide variety of fields, such as electronics, aerospace and sports.
Methane capture and storage provides a double environmental return-it removes a harmful greenhouse gas from the atmosphere that can then be used as a fuel that is cleaner than other fossil fuels.
HILLS AND POTHOLESMANY of these types of flexible electronic devices will rely on thin films of organic materials that catch sunlight
2015understanding of complex networks could help unify gravity and quantum mechanics: When the understanding of complex networks such as the brain or the Internet is applied to geometry the results match up with quantum behavior September 13th,
2015understanding of complex networks could help unify gravity and quantum mechanics: When the understanding of complex networks such as the brain or the Internet is applied to geometry the results match up with quantum behavior September 13th,
2015first superconducting graphene created by UBC researchers September 9th, 2015hybrid solar cell converts both light and heat from sun's rays into electricity (video) September 9th,
Understanding motions of thin layers may help design solar cells, electronics and catalysts of the future September 10th, 2015hybrid solar cell converts both light and heat from sun's rays into electricity (video) September 9th,
2015physics Understanding of complex networks could help unify gravity and quantum mechanics: When the understanding of complex networks such as the brain or the Internet is applied to geometry the results match up with quantum behavior September 13th,
2015understanding of complex networks could help unify gravity and quantum mechanics: When the understanding of complex networks such as the brain or the Internet is applied to geometry the results match up with quantum behavior September 13th, 2015announcements Building the electron superhighway:
2015research partnerships Understanding of complex networks could help unify gravity and quantum mechanics: When the understanding of complex networks such as the brain or the Internet is applied to geometry the results match up with quantum behavior September 13th,
#Desalination with nanoporous graphene membrane Less than 1 percent of Earth's water is drinkable. Removing salt and other minerals from our biggest available source of water--seawater--may help satisfy a growing global population thirsty for fresh water for drinking, farming, transportation, heating, cooling and industry.
The sun is an abundant and practically infinite source of energy, so researchers around the world are racing to create novel approaches to"harvest"clean energy from the sun or transfer that energy to other sources.
This week in the journal Applied Physics Letters("Metamaterial electromagnetic energy harvester with near unity efficiency"),researchers from the University of Waterloo in Canada report a novel design for electromagnetic energy harvesting based on
Among the most important is space solar power, an emerging critical technology that can significantly help to address energy shortages.
with plans to begin harvesting solar power from space by 2030.""Our research enables significantly higher energy absorption than classical antennas,
This amalgamation makes it a terrifically attractive material to apply to scientific developments in a wide variety of fields, such as electronics, aerospace and sports.
or monochromatic light oscillates at all points in space with the same frequency but varying relative delays, or phases.
Polarization refers to the trajectory of the oscillations of the electromagnetic field at each point in space.
thus allowing large scale exploration alloy materials space, according to their article. They specifically concentrated on the electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide on metal electrodes because of the current interest in this process for sustainable production of fuels and value added chemicals,
Conversion of CO2 to something useful could dramatically reduce its emission into the atmosphere and help alleviate the global warming problem.
The X-rays required were generated by electrons that were accelerated to nearly the speed of light over a distance of approximately one centimeter by laser pulses lasting around 25fs.
#MIT Invention Turns Salt water Into Drinking water Using Solar power From plants to people, every living thing on this planet needs water.
Using the sun instead of fossil fuels to power a desalination plant isn't a totally new idea.
since the sun's rays don't reach that far. But each GENESI node and sensor includes a miniature wind turbine that harvests energy from passing trains.
It works with solar radiation and the cooling is achieved by means of a thermodynamic adsorption-desorption cycle lasting 24 hours.
#Major advance in artificial photosynthesis poses win/win for the environment A potentially game-changing breakthrough in artificial photosynthesis has been achieved with the development of a system that can capture carbon dioxide emissions before they are vented into the atmosphere
which plants use the energy in sunlight to synthesize carbohydrates from carbon dioxide and water. However
The more carbon dioxide that is released into the atmosphere the warmer the atmosphere becomes. Atmospheric carbon dioxide is now at its highest level in at least three million years, primarily as a result of the burning of fossil fuels.
Technologies for sequestering carbon before it escapes into the atmosphere are being pursued but all require the captured carbon to be stored,
"When sunlight is absorbed, photo-excited electron? hole pairs are generated in the silicon and titanium oxide nanowires,
the Berkeley team achieved a solar energy conversion efficiency of up to 0. 38-percent for about 200 hours under simulated sunlight,
which uses gravity to save energy. We observed that the residual water in the container was pumped to reactor tank,
In this phase solid, organic and inorganic matter as well as heavy metals are removed by precipitation and gravity; and a sludge settles at the bottom of the reactor.
This is the first time that satellite-based fluorescence is validated by ground measurements, "Tang says.""This work has profound applications,
or satellite to detect plant photosynthesis on a large scale to assess ecosystem health, "says lead author Xi Yang, a postdoctoral associate at Brown University."
under the sunlight, a small portion of solar energy(<1 percent) captured by chlorophyll is emitted as fluorescence.
because it is obscured by the much higher intensity of solar radiation. The group discovered a few wavelengths of light that allow measuring the specific fluorescence signal from photosynthesis. The team's fluorescence measurement system can record radiation at high resolution with a frequency of 5 minutes,
or biocarbon that can be defined as a carbonaceous material obtained through thermal treatment of biomass at low temperatures and under inert atmosphere.
They crowd control molecules within a given space under different conditions. Adding a new constituent, stirring the pot
#Major Advance in Artificial Photosynthesis Poses Win/Win for the Environment A potentially game-changing breakthrough in artificial photosynthesis has been achieved with the development of a system that can capture carbon dioxide emissions before they are vented into the atmosphere
which plants use the energy in sunlight to synthesize carbohydrates from carbon dioxide and water. However
The more carbon dioxide that is released into the atmosphere the warmer the atmosphere becomes. Atmospheric carbon dioxide is now at its highest level in at least three million years, primarily as a result of the burning of fossil fuels.
Technologies for sequestering carbon before it escapes into the atmosphere are being pursued but all require the captured carbon to be stored,
Yang says. hen sunlight is absorbed, photo-excited electron#hole pairs are generated in the silicon and titanium oxide nanowires,
With this approach, the Berkeley team achieved a solar energy conversion efficiency of up to 0. 38-percent for about 200 hours under simulated sunlight,
incorporate multiple layers visible and UV channels-,convert to animal colour spaces, and to measure images easily.
#New, Ultrathin Optical devices Shape Light in Exotic Ways Researchers have developed innovative flat, optical lenses as part of a collaboration between NASA Jet propulsion laboratory and the California Institute of technology, both in Pasadena, California.
whereas waves in natural sunlight vibrate in all directions. Manipulating the polarization of light is essential for the operation of advanced microscopes, cameras and displays;
flexible superconducting tapes made of rare-earth barium copper oxide, the ARC reactor can achieve magnetic fields with much higher energyhus enabling a reactor design much smaller than other tokamak-based machines.
This new tool brings historical precipitation reconstruction from a'rocket science'to a'toy science.'
Over the years scientists have been very successful at making complex 3d shapes from DNA using diverse strategies said Wei Sun a postdoctoral scholar in the Wyss'Molecular Systems Lab
and functionally-relevant materials such as gold and silver Sun said. Just as any expanding material can be shaped inside a mold to take on a defined 3d form the Wyss team set out to grow inorganic particles within the confined hollow spaces of stiff DNA NANOSTRUCTURES.
The concept can be likened to the Japanese method of growing watermelons in glass cubes. By nurturing watermelon seeds to maturity inside cube-shaped glass boxes Japanese farmers create cube-shaped mature melons that allow for densely-packed shipping and storage of the fruit.
and expanded to fill all existing space within the DNA framework resulting in a cuboid nanoparticle with the same dimensions as its mold with the length width
from the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Leeds and a co-author of the paper.
a Phd student from the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Leeds and the lead author of the research paper.
Evans and his team have all of the membrane proteins required to construct a fully working mimic of the way plants capture sunlight.
#Innovative solar-powered toilet ready for India unveiling A revolutionary University of Colorado Boulder toilet fueled by the sun that is being developed to help some of the 2. 5 billion people around the world lacking safe and sustainable sanitation
The CU-Boulder invention consists of eight parabolic mirrors that focus concentrated sunlight to a spot no larger than a postage stamp on a quartz-glass rod connected to eight bundles of fiber-optic cables each consisting of thousands of intertwined fused
The energy generated by the sun and transferred to the fiber-optic cable system--similar in some ways to a data transmission line--can heat up the reaction chamber to over 600 degrees Fahrenheit to treat the waste material disinfect pathogens in both feces and urine and produce char.
"Human activities such as agriculture, fossil fuel combustion, wastewater management and industrial processes are increasing the amount of nitrous oxide in the atmosphere.
the Rice team installed it on a mobile laboratory used during NASA's DISCOVER-AQ campaign, which analyzed pollution on the ground and from the air last September.
Since her system is powered by the sun, operational and maintenance costs are fairly minimal: The system requires an occasional cartridge filter change,
the switches in the inductor path are flipped. n this technology space, there usually a trend to lower efficiency as the power gets lower,
a former electronics engineer with IBM and Sun who got the idea for a water-monitoring system
taking up 25 percent of the space. The 25 percent is from an EPA study, and that s by volume.
You can think of it as being biocompatible with our planet. But if this material gets put in your garden or on the side of the road,
The genes allow the plant to produce a more efficient enzyme for converting carbon dioxide from the atmosphere into sugars and other carbohydrates.
physics and astronomy, to bioengineering, pathology and laboratory medicine. The Californa Nanosystems Institute and the Johnsson Comprehensive Cancer Center also contributed, with support from the National Science Foundation and the Howard hughes medical institute.
"To predators, the bioluminescence is very similar to the light coming from the moon and stars at night,
the switches in the inductor path are flipped. n this technology space, there usually a trend to lower efficiency as the power gets lower,
which make them uite powerfulin terms of labeling results as a function of space and time and see the spreading of certain conditions
The UCLA team included researchers from electrical engineering, physics and astronomy, bioengineering, pathology and laboratory medicine,
and makes the planet warmer. According to the U s. Environmental protection agency coal-and natural gas-fired plants were responsible for one-third of U s. greenhouse gas emissions in 2012.
and associate professor of Earth and environmental engineering at Columbia University who was involved not in the research.
It become clear that there are many alternative ways to generate energy without destroying the planet d
So this design not only saves space, it also ensures energy economies, since thanks to the lesser volume needing to be evacuated smaller vacuum pumps can be installed.
Krones is thus offering a space-saving solution with an attractive price-performance ratio for bottlers who want to try out new beverages with a solids content on test markets, for example.
Farmlogs monitors crop health by utilizing multi-spectral satellite imagery to build performance baselines from over five years of field-specific crop health data.
That finding dispels concerns that the genetic material will quickly degrade in rain and sunlight. In the proof-of-principle study researchers wanted to answer
which is found in the sun rays and breaks down many materials. They discovered that under such direct exposure,
As air from the atmosphere passes through the vehicle air filter, it then passes unobstructed through the converter ring located in the air intake duct.
A few feet below the surface, plenty of sunlight still filters in, the temperature is kept at a stable 25°C (77°F) by the sea,
which received Lux Awards 2014 Light source Innovation of the Year, can fill a room ceiling mimicking sunlight from different latitudes, from the equator to Northern europe.
The key to its success in replicating a sunny sky uses nanostructured materials to scatter light from LEDS in the same way tiny particles scatter sunlight in the atmosphere so-called Rayleigh scattering.
From new ways to shake off those winter blues to manipulating light in small spaces, the trajectory for artificial light is bright indeed n
NASA Drone Advances Unmanned Craft A huge, 10-engine drone dubbed"Greased Lightning"successfully completed a series of flight tests recently,
Earlier this spring, NASA ENGINEERS flew the so-called GL-10 (the"GL"stands for"Greased Lightning")prototype drone at a military base located about two hours away from the agency's Langley Research center In virginia.
and long-endurance surveillance for agriculture, mapping and other applications,"Bill Fredericks, an aerospace engineer at the Langley Research center, said in a statement."
"aerospace engineer David North said in a statement.""We did lose some of the early prototypes to'hard landings'as we learned how to configure the flight control system.
NASA describes the drone as quieter than a neighbor using a gas-powered-motor lawn mower in the yard next door.
NASA ENGINEERS will continue to tweak the design of the GL-10 drone, according to agency officials,
and strength of waves of atomic motion that have promising potential uses such as fine-scale imaging and the transmission of information within tight spaces.
and they are sensitive to alkaline and sunlight, and they have strength limitations. According to Amir Behzadnia, one of the researchers, this study was carried out aiming to improve the properties of woolen products through special finishing process,
It will bring many new applications to our daily life very soon,"added Kostya S. Novoselov, from the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester, who coordinated the project.
producing a record low turn-on voltage that enabled the researchers to be the first to use earth-abundant hematite
Water splitting combines sunlight and water in a chemical reaction in order to harvest clean hydrogen energy. By smoothing the surface of hematite,
We are happy to show that much can be harvested from this earth abundant, nontoxic material. l
Since her system is powered by the sun, operational and maintenance costs are fairly minimal: The system requires an occasional cartridge filter change,
the switches in the inductor path are flipped. n this technology space, there usually a trend to lower efficiency as the power gets lower,
satellite or tractor, has become a precise, noninvasive and more affordable tool to check how crops are doing.
and into the atmosphere is definitely possible, because CO2 isnt just an undesirable greenhouse gas; it is also a good source of carbon for processes like polymer production.
and herbs including celery, rocket, parsley, radish, and mustard leaf. A pesticide free farming process-the results of 18 months of research
preexisting space, but it also provides the latest glimpse of how farming is moving into the 21st Century thanks to some pioneering high-tech agriculture ideas.
and tested a new sensor to detect ambient levels of mercury in the atmosphere. Funded through a National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation grant, the new highly sensitive, laser-based instrument provides scientists with a method to more accurately measure global human exposure to mercury.
we heat our indoor spaces--even when no one is in them. But scientists have developed now a novel nanowire coating for clothes that can both generate heat
and focus on people rather than spaces. The researchers developed lightweight, breathable mesh materials that are flexible enough to coat normal clothes.
'Bacteria are littered with genes that are unknown--it's like genetic dark matter, 'Selle said.''Now we can learn more about what these elements provide
iodide and methylammonium could convert sunlight into electricity with an efficiency of 3. 8 percent.
Sunlight to electricity Solar cells work by converting photons of sunlight into an electric current that moves between two electrodes.
close to the speed of light. Propelling the electrons in silicene requires minimal energy input, which means reducing power and cooling requirements for electronic devices. f silicene could be used to build electronic devices,
which is native to Alberta. ighorn sheep are an important symbol of Alberta and Canada wild spaces.
The more greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere, the warmer the atmosphere becomes, exacerbating global climate change. Solving the problem is not so simple, especially with regards to aviation the source of two-percent of the annual greenhouse gas emissions from human activity.
While biofuels have proven to be an effective, renewable, low-carbon alternative to gasoline and diesel, jet fuels pose unique challenges.
The concentrations of carbon and other greenhouse gases in Earth atmosphere are now at their highest levels in the past three million years, primarily as a result of the burning of petroleum and other fossil fuels.
a finding that dispels previous concerns that the genetic material would quickly degrade in rain and sunlight.
which is found in the sun rays and breaks down many materials. They discovered that under such direct exposure,
It eschews the traditional rockets of science-fiction jetpacks, which are powerful but difficult to control,
In fact, Martin believes that the jetpack ability to land in confined spaces will be its selling point,
seeing a $50m investment from Chinese aerospace company Kuang-Chi Science, valuing Martin at $100m.
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