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A cost analysis of the technologies needed to transport materials into the stratosphere to reduce the amount of sunlight hitting Earth and therefore reduce the effects of global climate change has shown that they are both feasible and affordable.
Aug 31st, 2012
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Berkeley Lab scientists take a multidisciplinary approach to becoming more resilient to current and future materials shortages.
Aug 28th, 2012
Read moreResearchers from The University of Western Australia have examined what motivates people who are greatly involved in the climate debate to reject scientific evidence.
Aug 23rd, 2012
Read moreLausitzring and BASF launch pilot project with compostable and disposable tableware at the ADAC Masters Weekend.
Aug 22nd, 2012
Read moreScientists today unveiled new technology intended to move soybeans, second only to corn as the top food crop in the U.S., along that same use-to-all path as a raw material for a wider portfolio of products.
Aug 22nd, 2012
Read moreA team of researchers from Israel and the United Kingdom has discovered that energy produced from the planet's oceans can increase twofold when novel methods for predicting wave power are used.
Aug 22nd, 2012
Read moreWith enough sunlight falling on home roofs to supply at least half of America's electricity, scientists have described advances toward the less-expensive solar energy technology needed to roof many of those homes with shingles that generate electricity.
Aug 21st, 2012
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A computer model that can identify the best molecular candidates for removing carbon dioxide, molecular nitrogen and other greenhouse gases from power plant flues has been developed by researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)?s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), the University of California (UC) Berkeley and the University of Minnesota. The model is the first computational method to provide accurate simulations of the interactions between flue gases and a special variety of the gas-capturing molecular systems known as metal-organic frameworks (MOFs).
Aug 21st, 2012
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An economically feasible way to store solar energy in existing residential power networks is the subject of an award winning paper written by two Virginia Tech electrical engineers and presented at an international conference.
Aug 18th, 2012
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Life evolved in a toxic world long before humans began polluting it, according to a University of Massachusetts environmental toxicologist, who added that understanding life's evolutionary response to environmental poisons can help people to fight destructive effects.
Aug 17th, 2012
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Engineers at a company co-founded by a University of Texas at Dallas professor have identified a material that can reduce the pollution produced by vehicles that run on diesel fuel.
Aug 17th, 2012
Read moreA Spanish researcher has proposed human, agricultural and livestock waste, such as urine, as a way to absorb CO2.
Aug 17th, 2012
Read moreWater's fate in China mirrors problems across the world: fouled, pushed far from its natural origins, squandered and exploited.
Aug 15th, 2012
Read moreA new discovery should make the alternative fuel butanol more attractive to the biofuel industry. University of Illinois scientist Hao Feng has found a way around the bottleneck that has frustrated producers in the past and could significantly reduce the cost of the energy involved in making it as well.
Aug 14th, 2012
Read moreThe expiration of key federal incentives could bring that wave crashing down in 2013, despite a significant decline in the cost of wind energy.
Aug 14th, 2012
Read moreEngineers at Oregon State University have made a breakthrough in the performance of microbial fuel cells that can produce electricity directly from wastewater, opening the door to a future in which waste treatment plants not only will power themselves, but will sell excess electricity.
Aug 13th, 2012
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