Synthetic Enzyme to Help Capture CO2 from Coal Plant Emissions
New Jersey-based Carbozyme is taking help from the human blood to develop a system to capture CO2 from mixed gas emissions for later sequestration.An enzyme in our blood captures about two pounds of...
View ArticleNew Bioplastic Material Absorbs Carbon Dioxide
Myriant Technologies LLC has just won U.S. Department of Energy funding of up to $50 million to construct a new plant that will produce Succinic Acid from sorghum, using a biobased process that is more...
View ArticleUCLA Researchers Produce Liquid Fuel Isobutanol
In California, researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have genetically modified cyanobacteria to produce the liquid fuel isobutanol directly from carbon...
View ArticlePower Paper and GE Collaborate to Develop Self-Powered OLED Lighting
Power Paper, an Infinity Group portfolio company, and GE Global Research, the technology development arm for the General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), announced that the companies have signed an...
View ArticleTurkish Firm Invents More Efficient Fuel with Boron
A Turkish technology firm in Edirne has produced fuel with boron through the use of nanotechnology.NNT Nanotechnology and Boron Products General Manager Mehmet Can Arvas said the invention was a result...
View ArticlePrism Makes $1 a Watt Unique Solar Hybrid
Prism Solar Technologies in Highland, NY has innovated a breakthrough holographic thin-film (Holographic Planar Concentrator™) that makes possible a very parsimonious use of crystalline PV cells to...
View ArticleNew Glitter-Sized Photovoltaic Cells Use Less Silicon, Generate More Electricity
Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have come up with a new photovoltaic cell no bigger than a flake of glitter, but it packs a big punch. The new cell uses 100 times less silicon to generate...
View ArticleToyota Industries Develops Solar-powered EV Charging Stations
Toyota Industries Corp. has developed a new charging station for electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles that is powered by solar energy. The municipal government of Toyota City has adopted the stations...
View ArticleLED Lamp Powered by Solar Energy
Od-Do Arhiteckti has come up with a sustainable lamp that harvests clean energy during the day for sustainable lighting after dark.The lamp is incorporated with photovoltaic cells that can harvest...
View ArticleSouthwest Solar Technologies Finds a Unique Energy Storage Solution
Solar Southwest Technology, a Phoenix based company is out with an interesting and innovative idea to store energy. Under the plan whenever excess energy is available from any source, it is utilized to...
View ArticleLED Light Bulbs with Remote Controls to Save More Energy
The new LED EcoBulb by Seokjae Rhee raises the green bar with innovative features to save more energy.For one, the bulb allows the user to only light the needed area with a small portion of the bulb’s...
View ArticleSopogy Inaugurates World’s First MicroCSP Solar Plant
Sopogy Inc has inaugurated the world’s first MicroCSP solar thermal plant at the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii. The 2MW thermal energy project spans 3.8 acres in the hot Kona desert and makes use...
View ArticleLow-emission Car Powered by a Hybrid Engine
Details of Honda’s upcoming green ride, the new CR-Z, have scant but some Japanese websites have managed to get their hands on a sales brochure, revealing the car’s design and some technical...
View ArticleSmart Wind Turbines Can Predict the Wind
Risø DTU has recently completed the world's first successful test on a wind turbine with a laser-based anemometer built into the spinner in order to increase electricity generation.The results show...
View ArticleEngineered Tobacco Leaves to Produce More Biofuel
Researchers at the Biotechnology Foundations Laboratories at Thomas Jefferson University have found out a way to increase biofuel production from tobacco plants by engineering two genes, which increase...
View ArticleEnergy-efficient Bioconversion to Turn Waste Glycerin to Biofuels
A large part of the glycerin glut comes from biofuel refineries, which put out enormous quantities of crude glycerin as a byproduct. Glycos Biotechnologies, Inc. , which is commercializing...
View ArticleGreen Machine to Turn Waste Heat to Electricity
An American invention that turns waste heat into electricity by operating like a "super-kettle", has been licensed by a Scottish energy company, which aims to turn over £40 million within the next...
View ArticlePrintable Lithium-polymer Batteries to be Used with a Flexible Solar Battery
A research group led by Advanced Materials Innovation Center (AMIC) of Mie Industry and Enterprise Support Center is developing lithium polymer batteries that can be manufactured by printing...
View ArticlePortable Charger Harvests Solar and Wind Energy
Miniwiz earlier showcased their portable wind-powered gadget charger in 2007, the Hymini, which charges various portable electronic devices using wind energy. The company is back with an upgraded...
View ArticleNew Energy Technologies Develops ‘Spray on’ Solar Solution
New Energy Technologies has reached the next development stage of a process for spraying solar cells and their related components onto glass. This product is still awaiting patent and is in the early...
View Article“Hydrofill” - A Portable Fuel Cell System
Horizon fuel cell technologies, a Singapore based company recently unveiled “Hydrofill,” their latest innovations in electronic gadget technologies during the Consumer Electronic Show 2010 (CES) which...
View ArticleNew Device to Make Energy Efficient Biofuels
A team of scientists from the University of Sheffield, UK, has developed an innovative device that will make the production of alternative biofuels more energy efficient.The research team has adapted a...
View ArticleCO2 to Gasoline Using Enzymes – Carbon Sciences
Here's an interesting article on an announcement from Carbon Sciences that it has developed a breakthrough technology to recycle carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions into gasoline and other portable...
View ArticleSolar Breakthrough: Water to Hydrogen with 60% Efficiency
British scientists say they've achieved a breakthrough, figuring out how to extract hydrogen from water with an unheard-of 60% efficiency using solar energy. The secret sauce is nanotechnology, in the...
View ArticleWind Power Breakthrough: 10 MW Floating Wind Turbine Prototype
Norwegian-based company Sway is a renewable energy company, with world leading technology and competence on floating wind turbines located in deep water.State company Enova has allocated 17 million...
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