The embedded fossils are likely planktonic autotrophs free-floating tiny ocean organisms that produce energy from their environment.
because they used carbon dioxide to create energy and incorporated the carbon into themselves. During this process the organisms selectively incorporate more carbon 12 than carbon 13 from the available carbon producing a signature of biological origin.
Successful tests were performed using live bed bugs and termites in Rafailovich#s lab with the assistance of Ying Liu a scientist with the Advanced Energy Research and Technology Center and graduate students Shan He and Linxi Zhang.
Charged particles such as electrons exist in discontinuous energy levels like rungs on a ladder. An electron provided with enough energy can become excited
and#jump up to a higher energy level. Excited electrons can spontaneously fall down to an available lower energy level shooting off the difference in energy as a bit of light called a photon.
The amount of time that passes before an excited electron drops down and releases a photon is usually random.
if an electron in an upper energy level was exposed to a photon with proper energy the electron would instantly fall down
A laser keeps this process going by continually providing energy for electrons to move into higher energy levels.
There is a hard limit to the number of electrons that can inhabit a given energy level at any given time
and conventional lasers waste energy unnecessarily exciting electrons to higher energy levels even when the lower levels are too full to accept the excited electrons
and an unlimited number of them can inhabit any given energy level. Using bosons in lasers has been a scientific goal for decades
The current iteration of the polariton laser requires two to five times less energy than a comparable conventional laser
but could require 100 times less energy in the future.##The outcome would look similar to that of the traditional photon lasers
and holes come together to form excitons in excited energy levels. When a photon hits an exciton it forms a polariton
The entire process is like a solar cell in reverse Kim says.##In a solar cell you use light to form excitons
and separate them into an electron and a hole electrically#she says.##We bring together an electron
The team hopes switching to a material that requires more energy to break apart excitons will allow them to build polariton lasers that work at room temperature an important step toward widespread use.#
but we aim to bring novel devices built on sound physical understanding for cost-effectiveness and efficient power consumption.#
The mechanism takes into account the#shear#effect of mass movement of the ionised gas known as plasma
Because metals will naturally convert some energy from infrared light into heat researchers can connect the amount the material expands to the amount of infrared light hitting it.#
#Ambiq Micro has made a chip that consumes 10 times less energy Ambiq Micro, a semiconductor company in Austin,
which can lower the power consumption of the tiny chips used inside wearable devices by as much as 10 times in wake mode
this means a battery life for a smart watch or activity tracker that could last for weeks or months longer than the current standard.
That means it uses much less energy overall. Ambiq has built out this technology on about $30 million in funding.
Salas also says that for customers of Ambiq the change in power consumption mean manufacturers can advertise longer battery life,
or they could use smaller batteries and then design smaller enclosures for their electronics. As a woman who finds almost all of the smart watches on the market today to be too large
I love to see a slightly more delicate form factor using a smaller battery and more power-efficient chip h
#Clean power is on its way for data centers as a service too Using clean energy to power data centers is becoming increasingly commonplace,
are beginning to offer clean energy options, too. On Thursday Phoenix, Arizona-based data center service provider IO announced that customers purchasing data center space in the company Arizona facility can buy 100 percent clean energy, at an incremental cost increase
through a new deal with Arizona utility Arizona Public service. IO President Anthony Wanger said that the new offering came
as a result of clear call by our customers to use cost-effective clean energy to power their data centers.
and it has a mandate to deliver 15 percent of its electricity from clean energy by 2025.
APS has contracted to buy all of the 280 MW of solar energy from the Solana solar thermal plant 70 miles southwest of Phoenix. That could provide enough solar electricity for 70
when it comes to the residential solar panel industry. As clean energy options get cheaper starting with large utility solar farms,
and wind farms more companies that offer colocation and cloud services will be able to afford to offer clean energy options to customers.
While Amazon has been one of the quietest on this front, it has committed more recently to 100 percent clean energy,
starting with using wind to power a data center in Indiana. Wind is the cheapest clean energy option
but is only available at scale in certain areas of the U s. Recently IO decided to split itself into two companies,
To whittle the device#s power consumption down#especially since electricity might be a limiting factor in parts of the world where this kind of quick accurate testing could be especially helpful#the team devised a#one-push vacuum#in place of an electrical pump;
instead the end user pushes against a negative-pressure chamber to move the sequence of reagents onto the cassette.
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#Biolite low-emission camping stove creates its own electricity Consider the humble camping stove. It requires fuel-perhaps some unwieldy bottle that air carriers object strongly to.
Maybe it needs batteries to run a fan, or billows out smoke so you smell like smoked sweatshirt for the rest of the trip.
and converts its own heat energy into electricity to achieve efficient combustion with ultra-low emissions.
Fuel Since the Biolite will burn almost any biomass fuel; from wood, pine cones, leaves, pellets, rice husks, even dung, it means fuel need not be carried,
The Biolite power pack captures wasted heat energy from the fire and converts it to electricity via a thermoelectric generator (TEG.
and convert it to electricity to drive the fan. The oxygen added from the chamber pores gives a clean
as rapidly as a jet boil or reactor flame. Despite this the stove exterior remains cool to the touch
Benefits There are no batteries and no moving parts to break and since the TEG is made from solid state semiconductor elements,
but could also benefit a diverse array of people living without electricity-from hikers and hunters, to backpackers and festival-goers,
This gives hope for materials that will improve the reliability, safety and lifespan of nuclear energy systems.
The healing process does require some energy to operate but at lower levels than conventional mechanisms.
or accelerate the design of highly radiation-tolerant materials for the next generation of nuclear energy applications.
and any passengers into rotational thrust to charge a battery and power the vehicle in conjunction with an electric motor.
And as an added bonus the vehicle can also be used store energy and act as a backup power generator to provide electricity to the home.
The Body Steering driver's seat of the Humancarrow, row, row your car...Humancar aims for a healthy planet with healthy drivers History The Humancar is the brainchild of Chief Scientist/Engineer Charles Samuel Greenwood P. E.,who first hit upon the idea for a human
and the lessons it provided eventually led to the development of the Impulse PS (Power station).
It can be powered by one, two, three or four people, the battery-powered electric motor, or any combination of human and electric power.
The battery can also be charged via a standard electrical outlet if you feel youe had your quota of exercise for the day.
To make the most out of the power generated the vehicle also incorporates a regenerative braking system
and an advanced power system to enhance overall efficiency. Because steering using the rowing handles would be too difficult to control the vehicle is steered by"Body Steering"(read leaning into turns.
The universal design of the chassis means it can use many different power systems and batteries,
Electricity generation The Humancar isn just a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle either. It can also function as an exercise-based human electric power station
or in vehicle-to-grid (V2g) mode to feed electricity back into the grid. A report on CNN showed four people rowing for a couple of minutes generated enough electricity to power a PC for well over an hour.
So if you don need to go anywhere you can jump in the car for some exercise that will generate electricity for your home
or to be fed back into the grid. DUET GEN Home Power Generator The company is also taking this idea further by planning to release a home power generator product called the DUET GEN. This is a two-person unit that is also modular to fit the chassis
system used in the Humancar vehicle and is small enough to fold up and fit in a large suitcase.
The device is perfect for anyone wanting a way to get fit and help the environment
But the human body is a veritable powerhouse that so many of us under utilize as our expanding waistlines will attest to.
"In particular, the GEDI data will provide us with global-scale insights into how much carbon is being stored in the forest biomass.
And that, in turn, enables scientists to estimate how much biomass the trees contain and how much carbon they are storing.
which are colorblind detect color through their skin as part of an Office of Naval Research program that aims to mimic cephalopod skin using metamaterials (synthetic materials with nonnatural properties).
It's these approximately 100-nanometers-wide slits that allow the device to differentiate between colors with plasmons waves of electrons that flow across metal surfaces) excited by light of a specific wavelength.
and dispersed the energy keeping the glass from shattering. Altogether the treated slides were reportedly 200 times tougher than slides
from inspecting nuclear power plants to slithering down the throats of surgical patients. The similarity in the construction and operation of the legs of the Snake Monster to those earlier CMU robot incarnations gives it its name.
Using the Gear VR on an exercise bike we were barely aware that we were exerting energy#and that's without the machine's movements corresponding with the in-game action.
but can't conjure up the energy to go to the gym? Have a seat...and"turn downtime into exercise time."
and energy as going to the gym, running, etc. The TAO Chair coaches you through exercises with the accompanying mobile app,
while a built-in, battery-powered digital display shows the calories burned during your current workout and the total calories you've burned since setting the chair up.
The display on the prototype was either out of battery power or a dummy so we didn't get to play with it.
and along with an LED lighting array features photovoltaic panels, a wind turbine, a battery pack, and an electronic control system that manages the flow of energy between those components.
Its composite-bladed turbine starts generating electricity at a minimum wind speed of 1. 7 meters (5. 6 ft) per second,
moving at 10 to 200 revolutions per minute and producing a maximum output of 400 watts. A planned second-generation turbine will need only to turn at 10 to 60 rpm
producing 100 watts as it does so. The commercial version of the streetlight should feature two 100-watt polycrystalline solar panels,
an array of Philips LEDS that put out either 3, 500 or 4, 000 lumens (depending on the streetlight model),
and a lithium iron phosphate battery pack that can store enough power to run the lights for up to 3. 5 nights per charge an optional higher-capacity battery could reportedly manage 6. 5 nights.
While the streetlights can run off-grid, groups of up to 99 of them are also able to send status updates via UHF to a central station,
while New york-based Urban Green energy already manufacturers one r
#Scientists find that exposure to nanoparticles could impact cardiovascular health Due to its huge potential in applications ranging from cheaper vaccinations to energy-storing car panels there's plenty of excitement surrounding the emergence of nanotechnology.
#Toyota opens fuel cell patents to drive hydrogen society Toyota is serious about hydrogen fuel cell technology.
500 fuel cell patents and provide royalty-free licenses to other automakers and entities. Upon walking into Toyota's CES press conference, the shimmering Mirai under the hard conference room lighting suggested that it might just be a rehashing of the details we already learned at November's LA Auto Show.
requiring a concerted effort and unconventional collaboration between automakers, government regulators, academia and energy providers.
"The approximately 5, 680 total global patents break down into roughly 3, 350 fuel cell system software control patents, 1,
970 fuel cell stack-related patents, 290 high-pressure hydrogen tank patents, and 70 hydrogen production and supply patents.
They will be made available to fuel cell vehicle manufacturers, fuel cell parts suppliers, and hydrogen fueling station companies through an initial market introduction period that Toyota expects to run until 2020.
#Self-tinting breathing window doubles as a transparent battery Scientists at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore have developed a smart window that is able to tint itself blue,
The device also functions as a small transparent battery that recharges on its own simply by interacting with the oxygen in its surroundings.
Indoor cooling can make up a sizeable percentage of a building power consumption. To help with the problem,
but also act as a transparent electrochemical battery that can slowly charge itself by absorbing oxygen from it surroundings.
with an oxygen-carrying liquid electrolyte in between them. The panes are wrapped inside a transparent conductive coating
the dye reacts with the oxygen in the electrolyte and spontaneously turns blue, blocking up to 50 percent of light passing through the window.
showing that their window can find use as a transparent, self-rechargeable electrochemical battery for low-power electronics.
This means that in principle this technology could turn out as an interesting, more versatile alternative than transparent solar cells, a technology
which could be attractive for hi-tech green buildings or even to promote energy savings in the household.
A paper describing the advance appears on the journal Nature Communications l
#Prototype system paves way for huge glasses-free 3d displays Using red/blue filters (anaglyph),
#A new type of glass could double your smartphone's battery life The batteries inside our smartphones
The glass can be used as an electrode material in lithium-ion batteries to almost double the amount of time they last between charges.
Various challenges had to be overcome to find a material that could both store battery capacity effectively
and longer-lasting batteries says Dr Afyon of the motivations behind the research. He added that the vanadate-borate glass compound his team has developed could extend smartphone battery life by 1. 5 to 2 times
and allow electric cars to travel 1. 5 times further though these numbers are still theoretical projections for now.
It's not just gadgets that need better batteries of course: the number of electric cars boats and bikes in operation continues to grow
What's more wind farms and solar power plants need to be able to store generated electricity effectively for
when it's required another purpose that vanadate-borate glass could potentially be used for. The group's work has been published in full in Scientific Reports
but it's good news for those perplexed by rapidly draining battery levels: help is on the way y
Tom Gage, chairman of EV Grid and an expert in electric vehicle charging infrastructure, said BMW and VW were among the largest vehicle manufacturers to help fund development of the U s. charging network. ost people will rarely use it,
The BMW/VW endeavor follows the establishment by California-based electric car maker Tesla motors Inc of an extensive network of fast-charging stations for its battery-powered Model S sedan.
#Roll to roll manufactured decorative solar panels to be 10 times cheaper Based on printing technologies, VTT Technical Centre of Finland has developed
and utilized a mass production method allowing the manufacturing of decorative, organic solar panels. Freedom of design increases the range of panel applications on the surfaces of interior and exterior building spaces.
VTT is also studying the feasibility of printing technology in the mass production of solar panels made from inorganic perovskite materials.
The new mass production method enables to create interior design elements from organic solar panels (OPV, organic photovoltaics) harvesting energy from interior lighting or sunlight for various small devices and sensors that gather information from the environment.
The panels can for example, be placed on windows and walls and on machines, devices and advertisement billboards.
The solar panel manufactured with VTT gravure and screen printing technologies is only around 0. 2 mm thick,
VTT is also currently examining how well the roll-to-roll printing methods are suited to the manufacturing of inorganic solar panels made from perovskite materials.
The first perovskite solar cells manufactured in the laboratory using solution-based processes have been promising. The performance of this solar cell is roughly five times better than that of an organic photovoltaic cell,
and the material costs can be even ten times lower. Freely designed decorative organic solar panels are applicable also in indoor use to harvest energy from indoor Light production methods are cost-effective
and materials can be recycled after the use. New materials such as perovskite can be printed with same methods and increase efficiency in future.
The research scientists have tested the feasibility of the method by printing leaf-shaped photovoltaic cells. Active surface of a one leaf is 0 0144 m2
Two hundred OPV leaves make one square metre of active solar panel surface that generates 3. 2 amperes of electricity with 10.4 watts of power at Mediterranean latitudes.
Organic solar panels are flexible and light, but their efficiency is lower compared to conventional, rigid silicon-based solar panels.
The solar panels are manufactured with printing machines based on conventional printing methods using the roll-to-roll method,
which enables the rapid mass production of the products: the printing machine can produce up to 100 metres of layered film per minute.
The market for organic photovoltaic cells is developing, with a market breakthrough expected within three years.
VTT is also developing a method to utilize light in wireless data transfer by using solar cells as data receivers.
This will open new application possibilities to utilize printable solar cells e g. in Iot (Internet of things) type applications, in
which the devices can also harvest energy from the ambient light. The first results have been very promising g
In biology, molecular motors are highly complex protein assemblies that can produce work by consuming energy:
which cross-link the polymer chains to each other, by rotating molecular motors made up of two parts that can turn relative to each other when provided with energy.
Just as in living systems, the motors consume energy in order to produce continuous motion. However, this light energy is dissipated not totally:
the amount of energy contained in the contraction of the polymer chains becomes very high,
I. Kim is affiliated also with the Neuroscience Program the Institute for Genomic Biology the Beckman Institute and the departments of bioengineering of materials science and engineering and of nuclear plasma and radiological engineering at the U. of I d
and Asia to combat this fear of not having a place to charge before your battery quits.
Who pays for the electricity? The charging partners, Georgeson says. When you do the math,
Utility companies in the U s.,on average, charge just $0. 12 per kilowatt hour. If the typical Tesla owner needed about a half-charge during their stay at a hotel,
costing the restaurant just $3. 55 in electricity. And who knows? Assuming Tesla does stick to its 2017 timing for a launch of a lower-cost car,
on average, charge just $0. 12 per kilowatt hour. If the typical Tesla owner needed about a half-charge during their stay at a hotel,
and a half, costing the restaurant just $3. 55 in electricity. And who knows? Assuming Tesla does stick to its 2017 timing for a launch of a lower-cost car,
DEVICE WORKS ON SOLAR POWER The system is suitable in areas where there is no electricity supply because it can be powered by a simple solar panel that generates five volts of energy,
he said. t is a simple technology because one does not have to be literate to operate it,
##The device, powered by rechargeable lithium-ion batteries and worn on the outside, is about three times heavier than a human heart,
#Edible batteries could power smart medicine pills A flexible biodegradable battery just may be what the doctor ordered.
an edible#battery.####Obviously, creating smart pills with their own sensors to regulate medicine in the body is a great idea,
#According to Carnegie mellon biomedical engineer Christopher Bettinger, a flexible biodegradable battery just may be what the doctor ordered.
Bettinger studied this possibility by using the melanin of a cuttlefish to create an anode for an edible battery.
This particular sea creature can create up to 10 microamperes of electricity for anywhere from five to 24 hours.
This makes the battery safe to swallow and doesn t cause any side effects in the human body.
The uses of such a battery aren limited t just to powering smart pills, though. Imagine those uncomfortable exams that involve a tiny camera being swallowed
What if the camera could be created from biodegradable material and powered by an edible battery?
The edible battery could also be used in medical devices like pacemakers and#implants#that treat Alzheimers and other brain conditions.
Currently, the only way to change the batteries in these implants is through surgery. The edible battery might reduce the amount of surgeries required as its use is less invasive.
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#It s the beginning of a new era for entrepreneurs and startups There are over 20 million non-employer businesses out there today, with more starting every day.
they plunked down $35, 000 for a rooftop photovoltaic system. The couple looked forward to joining neighbors who had added panels,
whether grid upgrades are necessary. If they are residents adding solar must foot the bill.
And starting immediately, contractors and residents would need permission to connect most small rooftop systems to the grid.
to keep people away from PV and keep them on the grid.####HECO officials called it a needed precaution.##
More than 4 percent of households have photovoltaics. Hawaii last year led the nation in the portion of its electricity that comes from solar, with 2. 6 percent.
The Aloha state burns oil to make electricity, and prices for the fuel have jumped in recent years,
igniting demand for alternatives. The state s tax credit for solar energy made it additionally appealing (Climatewire, May 6).
Arizona and Colorado over the future of net energy metering (NEM). That policy##which exists in some form in 43 states
and the District of columbia##lets households with renewable energy earn bill credits for surplus power delivered to the grid.
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#The NSA s $10 million secret deal to get RSA to use backdoored encryption algorithm RSA had been paid by the NSA to set the backdoored algorithm as the default method of random number generation.
#One way all mammalian cells produce energy is via aerobic respiration, in which large molecules are broken down into smaller ones, releasing energy in the process.
This mainly occurs in the mitochondria the##powerhouses##of cells. Mitochondria carry their own genomes,
but some of the cellular components needed for respiration are produced partly by the nucleus, so the two must coordinate their activities.
of which are associated with calorie restriction and an increased lifespan. These mice also had higher levels of a protein produced by the nucleus called hypoxia inducible factor (HIF-1a.
internet-connected smart energy systems can figure out you re home the moment you switch on a light.
Speaking about the discovery, Stamatoyannopoulos said that the##new findings highlight that DNA is an incredibly powerful information storage device,
and solar panels at the other, can pivot from straight overhead down to a 45-degree angle to chase the sun. directed by a CAD design from a connected laptop,
the electronics, cameras and a laptop all run on batteries charged by the solar panels PRINTING Kayser first designs the object he wants to print in a CAD program.
##The U s. installed 930 megawatts (MW) of photovoltaics (PV) in Q3 2013, up 20 percent over the second quarter and 35 percent from the third quarter of last year.
##Solar is now the second largest source of new electricity capacity in the U s.,behind natural gas,
It is also thanks to advancements in solar technology which brought costs down, and innovative new forms of financing that make#going solar more affordable for consumers.#
#Companies like Vivint, Solarcity and Sunrun have raised all upwards of $500 million to finance residential solar projects around the country.
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