#High-performance 3-D Silicon Anodes Made From Reed Leaves A low-cost approach to fabricating nanoporous silicon a potentially highly useful material for next-generation anode material in batteries,
The cars spent 750 hours of drive time gathering 150 million data points on nitrogen dioxide (NO2), nitric oxide (NO), ozone (O3), carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, methane, black carbon
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.
That's why the agency has proposed rules mandating dramatically reduced carbon emissions at all new fossil fuel-fired power plants.
Current carbon capture technology uses caustic amine-based solvents to separate CO2 from the flue gas escaping a facility's smokestacks.
MECS provide a new way to capture carbon with fewer environmental issues says Roger D. Aines leader of the fuel cycle innovations program at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and a co
This innovative gas separation platform provides large surface areas while eliminating a number of operational issues including corrosion evaporative losses
Perhaps this is why the powerful and wealthy Rockefeller family recently sold out of fossil fuels and switched their investments towards clean energy?
It was theorised that solar sails could accelerate spacecraft far beyond the speeds of traditional fuels, to make interplanetary-and interstellar travel more feasible.
When a black hole feeds, gas falls in and heats up, blasting out light. The pressure of the light actually pushes the gas away
creating a limit to how fast the black hole can continuously scarf down matter. If a black hole broke this limit,
'It was able to go more than Mach 5 until it ran out of fuel.''It was a very successful test of an airborne hypersonic weapons system.'
#The gas powered 3d printed supercar that can go from 0-60 in TWO seconds It can go from 0-60mph in just two seconds,
Its 700-horsepower engine can use either compressed natural gas or gasoline, and altogether it weighs just 1400lbs-90%less than some modern cars.
This results in better fuel economy and less wear on roads, it claims. Equipped with a 700-horsepower bi-fuel engine that can use either compressed natural gas or gasoline
Blade goes from 0-60 in about two seconds and weighs around 1, 400 pounds.
or discomfort. he device is re-useable once the gas cylinder is removed and the nylon inflatable can be deflated and packed back into its pouch,
ready for use when a new gas cylinder is installed. Kingii is available to pre-order via Indiegogo from $69 (£44) i
The company behind the idea, construction firm Volkerwessels, said that the surface would require less maintenance than the traditional road building material asphalt
as asphalt is responsible for 1. 6m tons of CO2 EMISSIONS a year globally, making up two per cent of all transport emissions, according to the firm.'
'Unfortunately for petrol heads, the special project is a onetime collaboration, and won't go on general sale.
Lexus unveil the world's first ever car with a heartbeat LEXUS RC F SPECS Unfortunately for petrol heads,
For instance, current satellites could be half the size they are today without the need to carry fuel.
multispectral cameras and gas sensors to assess the health of someone looking into it. It does this by examining the person face,
while the gas sensors take samples of the user breath looking for compounds that give an indication of how much they drink or smoke.
The hottest hot beverages in Manhattan are the sippable one brothsfrom Brodo single-service window, with add-ins like Calabrian chili oil, shiitake mushroom tea and fermented beet juice.
#Battelle Big data Improves Oil & Gas Efficiency Battelle has developed a data analytics platform to increase oil and gas industry efficiency.
Elucidata brings analytical and machine learning methods originally developed for data-heavy applications such as national security and the healthcare industry to the oil and gas industry,
Battelle says. The technology can be used to help petroleum developers make smarter decisions and more effectively manage assets.
It can also develop predictive models for cost effective and optimized well designs. Stephanie Kute, Ph d.,who runs the program for Battelle,
says Elucidata can help oil and gas firms apply big data to improve their processes as well as save time
and money by using statistical modeling. Elucidata can pinpoint factors that separate good wells from poor performers,
It also can show how oil production is related to geologic formations and how to develop robust predictive models.
The difficulties with aluminum-air construction, in particular, has been rapid degradation of the anode and, in early models of Al-Air, the release of hydrogen gas.
This was given not in precise terms relative to the cost of gasoline (and the weight of the aluminum anode in these batteries is unknown),
and sandwiched a layer of oil in between. Then they carefully injected into the mix individual water droplets that had been infused with tiny magnetic nanoparticles.
a metric that allows China to demonstrate movement away from carbon-emitting fuels even as total emissions continue to rise with economic growth.
The hybrid merchant vessel will also use a Liquid Natural gas electric propulsion system which takes the ship to the necessary speed to generate aerodynamic lift on its hull.
However Chris Cheetham founder of Soter Advisors a fuel and energy risk management consultancy specializing in the shipping industry said that a number of factors could impact potential savings.
Cheetham cited the huge pullback in oil prices and the inventory of traditional ships that are scheduled already to be built as factors that companies will need to consider before licensing a revolutionary design such as the Vindskip.
or prevent oil from building up on bolts, scientists are also aiming to uncovering characteristics that might lead to large-scale solutions for society.
Since the early 1900s, scientists have known that cancer cells prefer to use glucose as fuel even if they have plenty of other resources available.
This preference for using glucose as fuel is called the Warburg effect, or glycolysis. In a paper (road Anti-tumor Activity of a Small Molecule that Selectively Targets the Warburg Effect and Lipogenesis published in Cancer cell
#Audi claims first synthetic gasoline made from plants Just weeks after producing its first batch of synthetic diesel fuel made from carbon dioxide and water,
clean-burning and petroleum-free fuel called"e-benzin.""The fuel was created by Audi's project partner Global Bioenergies, in France.
In late 2014, Global Bioenergies started up the fermentation unit for a pilot program to produce gaseous isobutane from renewable biomass sugars such as corn-derived glucose.
Gaseous isobutane is a sort of raw material for the petrochemical industry that can then be refined into a variety of plastics, fuels and other applications.
Some of it was sent then to Germany to be converted into isooctane fuel creating a pure, 100 octane gasoline."
"To me this is a historic moment, "says Global Bioenergies CEO Marc Delcourt.""It is the first time that we have produced real gasoline from plants."
"Isooctane is used currently as an additive to improve fuel quality, but could also be used a stand-alone fuel.
Audi calls the final, refined form of the fuel"e-benzin"and claims that it burns clean due to its lack of sulfur and benzene.
Also, its high grade enables it to power engines using high compression ratios for more efficiency.
Audi will test the fuel composition and conduct engine tests to see how it performs before eventually trying it out in vehicle fleets.
Delcourt says he could see it being used in consumer cars on a large scale"very soon.""
"It's basically how we're moving away from an oil-based economy towards something that has a renewable, sustainable future to it."
We saw a similar project in Europe in 2014 that sought to make jet fuel. As part of its next phase, the company is building a new demonstration plant in Germany.
while cutting fuel consumption by 20 percent. The Air2nitrous team describes its electronic emissions control system as a"first phase"device because it works before and during combustion.
which is enriched an fuel/air mixture. According to the company, less nitrogen means less nitric oxide and nitrogen oxide (NOX),
The system works with combustion engines powered with various fuels, including diesel, LPG, bunker oil, gasoline, natural gas and others.
They add it takes 30 minutes to install the A2n device, a job that can be done by any mechanic to any internal combustion engine,
Suspended in oil and timed to move in very specific steps, the droplets in the system can theoretically be used to accomplish any process that a normal electronic computer can,
the whole structure is filled with oil and topped with a clear glass slide, so that the fluid is sandwiched between the layers.
a foam is made by bubbling a gas through molten metal to form a light froth that cools into a lightweight matrix.
the designers added a hydrogen fuel-powered electric hub motor. The tires would measure 700 x 700 x 250 mm (27.5 x 27.5 x 9. 8 in)
and fuel cycle technologies, as well as technical support for the licensing of small modular reactors $560 million for fossil energy R&d to advance carbon capture
and storage and natural gas technologies $270. 1 million for electricity delivery and energy reliability grid modernization activities $257 million for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to operate
and increase the system durability and reliability $5. 34 billion for Science to continue to lead basic research in the physical sciences $8. 8 billion for weapons activities to ensure a safe, secure,
Some of these devices are far from cost-effective sources of power, such as water and gas meters.
White house Opens Up Southern Atlantic coast to Offshore Drilling The Obama administration on Tuesday outlined a politically fraught plan for allowing oil drilling in U s. coastal waters,
announcing steps to open parts of the southeastern U s. coastline for oil leasing while imposing new restrictions on environmentally fragile waters off Alaska North Slope.
Beyond air quality and climate change mitigation benefits, California abundant renewable energy resources provide energy with zero marginal cost and zero fuel price volatility to our citizens,
The UK electricity and natural gas regulator Ofgem has calculated that it will cost £50 billion $76 billion to rewire Britain.
The report, more optimistic about curbing the use of fossil fuels than a Chinese industry forecast on Monday,
PTT, Thailand state-owned oil and gas company; and a third, as yet unnamed investor that working on joint development of manufacturing systems for 24m technology,
Still, Silicon valley is betting that Bolt silk could supplant petroleum-based textiles such as polyester, Lycra,
and have anxiety (even) with getting gas, said Sandoval. ow we can have confidence to charge our electric vehicles and drive them from place to place (in Nevada).
which is used already widely in the petrochemicals industry could offer enormous benefits in other areas,
*The Airbus a380 passenger jet has a carbon fibre reinforced plastic fuselage for a lower fuel consumption. The researchers claim the new technology would allow wings to fix themselves in mid-flight,
The bottles are claimed to be a greener alternative to asphalt which is responsible for 1. 6 million tons of global carbon dioxide emissions a year and 2 per cent of all road transport emissions.
exceeded only by natural gas 1. A USA Sunshot Vision Study suggests that solar power could provide as much as 14%of U s. electricity demand by 2030 and 27%by 2050 2. Currently,
but if you have a continuous supply of fuel and air, it doesn run out in the same way that a battery does. he cell is made up of three layers cathode, electrolyte and anode
Natural gas on one side of the cell, and air on the other, says Rogers, generate a voltage across the cell.
Gas is essential to the Ceres fuel cell process. The stacks will be powered by piped gas in the same way that homes are supplied with gas from the mains in the street.
When the householder turns on a light, explains Rogers, the energy-making process will be activated immediately in the fuel cell stack.
%lost as heat as the fuel is burned. Then, the electricity has to travel by cable and pylon to the consumer,
which produces high-temperature steam that fuels a generator. The generator creates electricity that is used to power the machine.
#Following Tesla's Lead Toyota Makes Fuel cell Patents Free Toyota is making thousands of its hydrogen fuel cell patents available royalty-free,
Tesla motors, freely available. 10 Technologies That Will Transform Your Life"The first-generation hydrogen fuel cell vehicles,
California-based hydrogen fueling company Firstelement Fuel to help maintain nearly 20 fueling stations across the state.
and Mercedes announced a new luxury vehicle powered by hydrogen fuel cells. Lots of small companies are getting in on the action too,
Automatic lets you harness the computing power of your car for the sake of fuel efficiency.
letting you diagnose a problem before it starts eating away at your fuel efficiency or increasing your emissions.
Automatic will inform you that this bad habit wastes gas. In fact, the company claims that the device can help you spend up to 33 percent less on fuel each year just by getting you to avoid a few gas-guzzling habits.
The fitness and lifestyle company Misfit announced a new product at CES: the Swarovski Shine.
New Trackers Go Beyond the Data Dump LAS VEGAS You earned 3, 000 Fuel points! You walked 8, 755 steps.
Experts on the board said they felt a sense of urgency this year because of the world's ongoing addiction to fossil fuels,
NASA describes the drone as quieter than a neighbor using a gas-powered-motor lawn mower in the yard next door.
or are filled with an inert gas like argon: At those temperatures tungsten would react with the oxygen in air and simply burn.
oil and Teflon layers are placed in turn between two glass slides. The researchers then carefully injected water droplets into the oil;
these droplets were infused with tiny magnetic particles only nanometers, or billionths of a meter, wide.
clean and flexible insulator for applications in a range of industries, including aerospace, oil and gas, RF-radar, automotive and building materials.
There is also a gas analyzer that will tell you if youe been drinking or need to think about quitting smoking.
#Why hydrogen fuel cell cars are taking off The news hasn't been great for electric vehicle and hybrid sales lately.
Hydrogen is the fuel (although the industry refers to call it an nergy carrier, and range is an excellent 300 miles or better.
The other advantage over battery cars is that refueling is just like getting gas, and takes only about five minutes.
"The advantage of CNF over other polymers is that it's a bio-based material and most other polymers are based petroleum polymers.
and their bases are immersed in a solution of deionized water, ethanol, and a dissolved polymer.
the water-ethanol mixture streams upward, dragging chains of polymer with it. The water and ethanol quickly dissolve, leaving a tangle of polymer filaments opposite each emitter, on the electrode.
The researchers were able to pack 225 emitters, several millimeters long, on a square chip about 35 millimeters on a side.
and their bases are immersed in a solution of deionized water, ethanol, and a dissolved polymer.
the water-ethanol mixture streams upward, dragging chains of polymer with it. The water and ethanol quickly dissolve, leaving a tangle of polymer filaments opposite each emitter, on the electrode.
The researchers were able to pack 225 emitters, several millimeters long, on a square chip about 35 millimeters on a side.
called ungsten diselenide Past studies have shown that this material has a great efficiency for converting solar energy directly into hydrogen fuel
Exploiting this oil-and-water effect, they used the interface of the two liquids as a olling pinthat forced the 2-D flakes to form an even
he unintentionally let a copper foil heat for longer than usual before exposing it to methane vapor,
He later discovered that two leaky valves were letting in trace amounts of methane into the experiment chamber."
"The valves were letting in just the right amount of methane for graphene to grow,
2015researchers build atomically thin gas and chemical sensors: Sensors made of molybdenum disulfide are small,
#Directa Plus in Barcelona to present the innovative project GENIUS for oil spills cleanup activities: The company has created a graphene-based product for the remediation of water contaminated by oil and hydrocarbons Abstract:
Directa Plus at 18th European Forum on Eco-innovation to present GENIUS, the innovative project that leads to the creation of a graphene-based product able to remove hydrocarbons from polluted water
innovative and highly effective oil-adsorbent, characterized by unique performances in oil adsorbency, and at the same time absence of toxicity and flammability,
and the possibility to recover oil. The creation of this graphene-based oil-adsorbent product, commercialized as Grafysorber,
has been promoted by GENIUS project and already approved by the Italian Ministry of Enviroment to be used in occasion of oil spills cleanup activities.
Grafysorber has been tested firstly industrially in a Romanian former refinery site, containing a basin with about 30.000 m3 of water contaminated with petroleum hydrocarbons.
The product used as loose material was able to abate the hydrocarbons concentration from 200-300 ppm down to 0. 5 ppm.
Moreover, our product, once exhausted after depuration of water, finishes positively its life cycle inside the asphalt and bitumen, introducing new properties as thermal conductivity and mechanical reinforcement.
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because the Tc of 50-60 K achieved in the present study is high enough to keep the superconducting state by using a closed-cycle-gas-type cooling system without liquid helium.
pyrrole, ferric chloride (Fecl3), ethanol and water--which makes it cheap enough and enables large-scale fabrication,
or gas sensing applications. Until now, we have tested sensing applications. Further potential applications could also be flexible and stretchable electronic devices, luminescent actuators, batteries, smart cloths or sacrificial templates for the growth of new materials.
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The ETH professor is convinced that the industrial importance of these materials will even further increase-for example, in gas sensors, new classes of data storage and computer circuits,
This supports the development of future gas sensors, ion-based data storage and micro energy converters, such as fuel cells-and potentially a range of other as yet unknown applications in the promising field of ionics.##
ranging from the catalysts used for the generation of energy-dense fuels from sunlight and carbon dioxide, to how bridges and airplanes rust."
2015iranian Scientists Design Nano Device to Detect Cyanogen Toxic Gas June 23rd, 2015announcements Nanometric sensor designed to detect herbicides can help diagnose multiple sclerosis June 23rd, 2015sweeping lasers snap together nanoscale geometric grids:
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#Physicists fine-tune control of agile exotic materials: Tunable hybrid polaritons realized with graphene layer on hexagonal boron nitride Abstract:
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#The Hydrogen fuel cell will revolutionize the economy of the world: New non-platinum and nanosized catalyst for polymer electrolyte fuel cell Abstract:
and ability to use fuels from renewable sources are several reason why fuel cells such as PEMFC have attracted attention for large market applications,
Modern applications for PEMFCPEMFC will indirectly make water our future fuel. Hydrogen and oxygen generated by splitting water using photosynthesis can be used as a fuel for PEMFC.
PEMFC are leading candidates to power the space shuttle and other mobile applications even down to mobile phones,
2). Fuel cells generate electricity by combining hydrogen gas with oxygen to produce water (figure 1). Although that sounds perfectly clean and green,
that hydrogen is generated typically by"reforming"fuels such as natural gas, gasoline, or ethanol, which invariably introduces carbon monoxide into the hydrogen gas.
If even minute quantities of carbon monoxide are present in that gas, it can poison the platinum catalysts that are important to driving the fuel cell.
In the heart of a fuel cell, CO binds tightly to platinum and prevents it from grabbing hydrogen, the first step in the reaction.)
However, Hydrogen produced from water splitting by photosynthesis is very clean and has zero carbon monoxide.
An electrolyte or membrane is used to separate oxygen gas at the cathode region from hydrogen gas in the anodic region,
Optimizing PEMFC and positive environmental impactsfuture PEMFC will have to use low grade (inexpensive) hydrogen gas
Fuel cells & Infrastructure Technologies Program Multi-Year Research, Development and Demonstration Plan, U s. Department of energy, October 2007.2 Hydrogen fuel Cells & Infrastructure Technologies Program Multi
and petroleum to detect and measure heavy metals. Among the most important advantages of this nanosorbent, mention can be made of reducing the cost of food sample evaluation,
or gas phase organic compounds that are vaporized into the air at the room temperature. TVOC is known as a carcinogen that can cause disability in the nervous system from skin contact or from inhalation through respiratory organs s
ranging from gas leakage, toxic and explosive gas sensing, and contaminants in water to DNA and proteins.
#Iranian Scientists Use Gas Sensor to Detect Hydrogen Iranian researchers designed a sensor with the capability of rapidly detecting the amount of hydrogen existing in the environment.
Among other applications of this sensor, mention can be made of desulfurization of petroleum products, production of jet fuel and launching of aircrafts and other aerospace applications.
Eindhoven researchers make important step towards a solar cell that generates hydrogen A solar cell that produces fuel rather than electricity.
The material gallium phosphide enables their solar cell to produce the clean fuel hydrogen gas from liquid water.
If this generates a fuel then one speaks of solar fuels-a hugely promising replacement for polluting fuels.
One of the possibilities is to split liquid water using the electricity that is generated (electrolysis.
Among oxygen, this produces hydrogen gas that can be used as a clean fuel in the chemical industry
multi-layer graphene by varying the ambient pressure, ambient gas, temperature and time during the treatment.
and is produced easily may lead to better gas separation, water purification, drug delivery and DNA recognition, according to an international team of researchers.
But many of the advances rely on petroleum-based plastics and toxic materials. Yu-Zhong Wang, Fei Song and colleagues wanted to seek a greener way forward.
fuel consumption can be reduced. Systematic application of our new method could save more than 100 billion liters of fuel each year over the next ten years
says Prof. Andreas Leson from the Fraunhofer Institute for Material and Beam Technology IWS in Dresden, referencing a study that was published in the journal Tribology International in 2012.
The automotive and motorcycle manufacturer BMW is working intensively on the industrial-scale implementation of ta-C engine components in its various vehicle models with the aim of reducing their fuel consumption.
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