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According to experts, self-driving cars could represent a possible avenue for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. These vehicles would help reduce the amount of fossil fuels current automobiles use, while also keeping traffic more fluid and safe.The goal here is to obtain vehicles that can park themselves, figure out ... |
24 October 2011
05:42 GMT |
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Nowadays, when gas prices are off the chart, the most convenient way to shop for a new car is to chose one of the new models available in showrooms, which have the highest MPG rating.
For those eager to change their car, Miles Walker provided a list of 2011 vehicles which are considered to be both very effi... |
14 October 2011
09:40 GMT |
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Work flow efficiency experts say that it may be time to do away with the current setup most companies use. They add that the omnipresent cubicle should be removed from office floors and replaced with clusters of tables centered around mobile technologies and social services.Tablets, smart phones, and social technolog... |
5 August 2011
09:53 GMT |
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A group of scientists in the United States announces the development of a new type of organic light-emitting diode (OLED), that shine fluorescent blue light with exception energy efficiency.The new light source was produced at the University of Michigan in Ann Harbor, and its primary application will most likely be i... |
24 March 2011
08:47 GMT |
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A team of experts at a private startup company in the United States announces the development of a new production technique aimed at manufacturing light-emitting diodes (LED). If widely applied, this method could lead to more people employing LED lighting in their households. As incandescent light bulbs are beginning... |
21 March 2011
05:47 GMT |
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Chemical engineers are currently looking for new ways of designing and building solar cells, in such a way that they could be spray-painted on roofs, windows and walls. Harnessing the power of the Sun could in the near future be a lot closer at hand than it is today.Existing conversion technologies are still pretty e... |
14 February 2011
06:47 GMT |
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Scientists from the Stanford University announce the development of a new manufacturing technique, that allows them to produce dye-sensitized thin-film solar cells which are up to 20 percent more efficient at converting photons into electrons than exist cells of the same type.The reason why dye-sensitized cells are s... |
7 February 2011
03:58 GMT |
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According to the results of a long-anticipated document, it would appear that it is both feasible and affordable to run the entire world on renewable and alternative energy within four decades.The Energy Report, which experts worked on for more than two years, shows that all electricity produced in the world in 2050 ... |
3 February 2011
09:11 GMT |
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Modern computers consume a lot of energy, but they also waste a huge portion of it as heat. But devices based on reversible logic could reduce that waste to zero, say investigators. All that is needed is the brains and money to develop such a machine.As the world's resources are diminishing, energy demand and th... |
25 January 2011
07:00 GMT |
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Throughout the United States, 2011 will represent the first year when incandescent light bulbs will lose their dominance over the market. Compact fluorescent lights (CFL) and light-emitting diodes (LED) are the new technologies that the public will have to run to, as incandescent bulbs get phased out. The public does... |
20 January 2011
16:01 GMT |
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Researchers at the University of California in Berkeley (UCB) say that the common idea held by poor and developing nations, that reducing greenhouse gas emissions equates keeping poverty levels high, is a misconception that needs to be fought. The developing world is currently emitting increasing amounts of pollution... |
26 November 2010
08:32 GMT |
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Officials at the Boeing Company announce that the corporation has begun to mass-produce the C3MJ+, which is the newest type of terrestrial solar cell developed by the wholly-owned subsidiary Spectrolab. The cells have a conversion efficiency of 39.2 percent, meaning that they convert more than a third of the total am... |
22 November 2010
09:57 GMT |
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An expert at the Stanford University says that using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has the potential to increase the efficiency of jet engines, largely by reducing the times that are needed to collect valuable measurements on the jet flow using conventional methods. Stanford PhD student in mechanical engineering L... |
22 November 2010
06:10 GMT |
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Scientists believe that a recently-developed technological process may lead in the near future to solar cells that are capable of arranging themselves into the most efficient pattern for energy production.The individual cells would bring themselves together in a manner similar to a molecular “flash mob,” ... |
6 September 2010
04:27 GMT |
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Once upon a time, the main, and possibly only, concern of hardware makers was coming up with new ways to improve the performance of their products. Intel and AMD strove to enhance the clock speeds of their CPUs, memory and storage makers kept looking for ways of increasing capacity, etc. Those times ended when the wo... |
17 June 2010
11:15 GMT |
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One of the major problems associated with electrical wires is the fact that they lose a lot of energy through their coatings. Most of the times, this lost power is radiated as heat, which explains why circuits and wires get warm, and sometimes even melt. Engineers and physicists have been working for a long time on m... |
13 May 2010
10:39 GMT |
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Extracting the maximum amount of energy out of the available wind is the ultimate goal for all wind farm operators. The structures are already constructed in areas that have been deemed appropriate for this type of exploitation, but even then a number of issues can arise. For instance, gusts of wind slamming the prop... |
26 March 2010
07:56 GMT |
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Scientists at the Fremont, CA-based Redwood Systems announce that they will begin commercializing a new type of LED (light-emitting diode) lighting system beginning this summer. The thing that sets the new approach apart from the rest of its competition is the fact that the light sources will not be hooked up to conv... |
16 March 2010
15:01 GMT |
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Aeronautics researchers have for a long time tried to catch a glimpse of nature for inspiration, as they tried to produce more and more natural-looking wing designs, for improved flight. Birds, over the millions of years of evolution they had at their disposal, managed to reach a point where they are extremely well s... |
11 March 2010
08:47 GMT |
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In their perennial quest to developing new methods of increasing energy efficiency, and reducing consumption and waste, researchers have recently come up with a new concept that could see that happening. They argue that creating neighborhood grids, which could act like autonomous, smaller versions of the national pow... |
23 February 2010
04:58 GMT |
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Samsung's Visual Display Division can now boast a 90% increase in the efficiency of product loading and design. ESI recently implemented its Simulation-Based Design environment, based on the VisualDSS, which aids in the automation of project workflow. The installment automatically generates standard reports, in... |
8 December 2009
11:22 GMT |
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Fujitsu Group aims to aid in the establishment of a worldwide low-carbon society by 2020 and, to this end, it plans to turn its Green Policy Innovation project into a worldwide effort. World leaders decided, during the most recent Group of Eight Summit, that efforts should be made to halve greenhouse-gas emissions by... |
8 December 2009
09:13 GMT |
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Scientists at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) are currently investigating deep retrofitting schemes which, they say, could help boost the energy efficiency of selected homes by 30 to 50 percent. They caution that the results of their studies would not necessarily mean tha... |
26 November 2009
06:05 GMT |
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All of you have used public transportation at least once in your lives. As it stands, some of you use it every day, and are well familiar with the “platooning effect” that trams, buses and even subways seem to get into. In a nutshell, you wait and wait for a bus to come, and then three arrive at the same ... |
30 October 2009
03:54 GMT |
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An international research effort, consisting of scientists from Australia and the United States, has recently beaten the world record in terms of solar-cell efficiency by 0.3 percent, and reached a total conversion rate of 43 percent. Details of the amazing work, which has the ability to completely change the way in ... |
21 September 2009
09:49 GMT |
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Recent scientific studies conducted on insect flight have revealed that nature and evolution seem to favor a wing design that is not flat and inflexible, such as airplane wings. While they may get the job done transporting humans from point A to point B, they are not highly efficient in terms of performances, when co... |
18 September 2009
03:42 GMT |
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The field of human health research is heavily reliant on the usual monkeys and lab rats, but other animals are used for assessing disease development or drug efficiency as well. Among them are the small fruit fly and the zebra fish. The latter was cloned several times over the last years, but through complex and expe... |
31 August 2009
01:26 GMT |
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Stacking for example Rubik cubes in a storage box is a fairly easy task. They are all the same size, and can be neatly stacked on top of each other in established patterns. But when it comes to fitting as many gumballs in a single vending machine bowl, things get a little complicated. Establishing the most effective ... |
4 August 2009
03:25 GMT |
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For a long time, ants have been appreciated by experts in the scientific community as some of the most intelligent and advanced creatures on the planet. Their complex network of interactions allowed them, over the years, to form some of the most complex societies in existence today, rivaling our own in number and spe... |
23 July 2009
02:51 GMT |
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While most people nowadays argue the necessity of integrating “green” devices into modern buildings, a renowned architect supports the necessity of these less-polluting technologies being installed on existing structures as well. University of Oregon Professor of Architecture Ihab M.K. Elzeyadi says that ... |
12 May 2009
05:05 GMT |
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The global economic crisis provides ample opportunity to reinvigorate the focus on increasing efficiency on all aspects that combine to drive business success and data center operations make no exception to this. Microsoft is no stranger to efforts designed to increase the efficiency of data centers, from cutting cos... |
3 April 2009
05:56 GMT |
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When it comes to a company assessing its own level of communication effectiveness, most managers go for the old-fashioned way, of simply and informally asking the employees what they think, most often over a cup of coffee, during breaks. But new studies say that this is not the most effective method of survey, and th... |
6 March 2009
09:26 GMT |
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Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Research Organization (CSIRO) managed to create the first smart fridge that can decide for itself how much power it needs to operate. It can also communicate with other similar devices across the network and decide the best time to use electricity, so as to avoid using it ... |
14 January 2009
06:39 GMT |
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Trying to face the extremely difficult dilemma of housing a predicted 1 billion people in urban environments by 2030, Chinese authorities in Beijing and Shanghai decided a few years ago to construct the country's first green city, a project that was to house some 500,000 people, with a minimal carbon footprint o... |
12 January 2009
04:22 GMT |
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Most of the light provided by the light source posted behind liquid crystal display panels never even reaches the eyes of the viewer. Light must pass through individual pixels whose brightness levels are controlled by small liquid crystals that modify their transparency according to the electric signal input. Therefo... |
23 July 2008
04:43 GMT |
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Well, it doesn't really look like the car of my dreams, but it does bear some resemblance to the flying cars from 'The Jetsons', and best of all, it can run more than 100 kilometers with only one liter of fuel. Too bad it doesn't fly, though. Volkswagen's One Litre is currently the most econo... |
14 July 2008
10:31 GMT |
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A new highly advanced walking robot dubbed Flame was developed recently by researcher Daan Hobbelen from TU Delft as part of his PhD research focused on revealing the way people walk. For his research Hobbelen will receive his PhD next week, on May 30. Hobbelen's findings could provide a valuable insight into ne... |
23 May 2008
10:40 GMT |
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If the aircraft you're traveling in suddenly experiences some kind of damage while in mid flight, you're pretty much toast. Still, air travel is one of the safest means to get around. In theory airplanes could become even safer if they were built out of materials that regenerate themselves even while in fl... |
21 May 2008
04:48 GMT |
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When talking about solar cell efficiency, even a rise of 1 percent, which to some may appear modest, is reason for researchers to celebrate. The previous solar cell conversion efficiency was averaging 21.9 percent. A new world record for solar cell efficiency has been set on Wednesday by a team of researchers from th... |
17 May 2008
05:04 GMT |
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Light emitting diodes, or LEDs, are amongst the most efficient light sources ever developed. In terms of energy efficiency, light emitting diodes are capable of producing the optical output of an incandescent light bulb, by consuming one hundred times less energy. The problem is that LEDs can't compete with inca... |
14 May 2008
10:35 GMT |
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You just have to throw a brief look over all the types of energy sources to understand that water is basically indispensable in energy generation whether it is electric energy, natural gas, hydroelectric or nuclear. A research recently initiated by Virginia Tech scientists catalogued energy sources and power generati... |
22 April 2008
03:49 GMT |
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LEDs have been in our lives for some time now. They are more efficient than any other lighting device before them, can produce any desired color and have a life span much longer than that of light bulbs and fluorescent tubes. However, they are still imperfect. For example, light-emitting diodes currently present on t... |
24 March 2008
09:38 GMT |
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In 1879, Thomas Alva Edison invented the first electric light bulb using a carbon filament, only to receive the patent for his invention two months later. In was the greatest invention of the 19th century, but although the materials used to construct the light bulb changed slightly over the years, its design remained... |
7 March 2008
05:29 GMT |
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It's about time to give a serious upgrade to the organic solar cells. Most of the solar panels built today all over the world imply a complicated manufacturing process, based on the use of scarce and extremely expensive materials, layered on top of a silicon substrate, and are able to provide a relatively effici... |
7 February 2008
05:23 GMT |
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Among the most important energy consumers in the whole IT industry, the data center has a very special and near the top place, their projected energy consumption being said to double until 2011. So a new set of specifications and guidelines have been drawn up in an attempt to minimize energy waste and electricity bil... |
11 August 2007
06:39 GMT |
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The Green Grid is an association of several high-tech companies, most of which are active in the computer hardware manufacturing segment, that was created as a group that could lay the base for industry wide accepted practices, metrics and technologies that should help improve data center energy efficiency.Since its ... |
10 August 2007
05:36 GMT |
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A real breakthrough has been made by a team of scientists in the field of solar energy converters. The new discovery is a fuel cell that, for the first time, surpassed the 40% efficiency milestone, the highest efficiency achieved for any photovoltaic device.Using a new technology that combines several innovations to... |
25 July 2007
09:05 GMT |
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Let's see how the situation looks from above the battle field. Intel has a strong market share in its grasp thanks to a large number of products (processors, chipsets and so on) and a great marketing and advertising department. AMD on the other hand, is losing some market shares mainly because of a much more red... |
24 July 2007
04:16 GMT |
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Internal combustion engines are now powering the vast majority of automobiles, motorcycles, trucks, boats and are also used in various industrial applications. They are so widespread because they can provide high power to weight ratios together with excellent fuel energy-density.However, their efficiency is relative... |
19 July 2007
10:53 GMT |
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Exfoliation is not only a cosmetic technique aimed at removing dead skin cells from the face and body, but it also causes the breaking up particle aggregates in material science and what promises to produce a new generation of solar cells that are much lighter and cheaper than existing models.Researchers, from the C... |
16 July 2007
05:34 GMT |
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