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Mar 9 | News
Tiny marine isopods called gribbles were for centuries the bane of sailors, whose vessels were quickly devoured. Even today, piers and docks are rapidly gnawed away, and researchers have now been attracted to the enzymes in their gut, which can convert wood into sugars without the help of microbes.
Feb 24 | RDBlog
Almost a year ago, the buzz during the downturn was that the economic stimulus will help boost jobs in a sort of national improvement program reminiscent of the 1930s. Our coal would be phased out. Our grids would get smart. Our cars would get hybridized.
Feb 24 | News
To pave the way for a hydrogen fuel infrastructure, researchers at NIST Boulder Labs recently launched the largest hydrogen test facility in the U.S. for evaluating how component parts of such as system—such as this pictured piece of equipment—will react to exposure to this potentially corrosive gas.
Feb 18 | News
Scientists may have just made the breakthrough of a lifetime, turning discarded fruit peels and other throwaways into cheap, clean fuel to power the world's vehicles. Univ. of Central Florida professor Henry Daniell has developed a way to produce ethanol from waste products such as orange peels and newspapers.
Feb 16 | News
In research that gives literal meaning to the term "power suit," Univ. of California, Berkeley, engineers have created energy-scavenging nanofibers that could one day be woven into clothing and textiles.
Feb 12 | News
Researchers at Queen’s Univ. suggest that policy makers examine greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions implications for energy infrastructure as fossil fuel sources must be rapidly replaced by windmills, solar panels and other sources of renewable energy.
Feb 9 | News
P2i, a leading maker of liquid repellent nano-coating technology, has teamed up with U.S.-based to commercialize a new plasma process that dramatically reduces the surface energy of a material so that when liquids come into contact with it, they form beads and simply roll off.
Feb 8 | News
Diesel fuel is the backbone of the U.S. economy, and most of it is imported and derived from petrochemicals. Biodiesel is a significant alternative, but refining it from food stocks is an ethical and economic hazard, and waste grease is rarely clean or convenient. But now, startup BioFuelBox is using an Idaho Lab catalytic process that may crack the bottleneck on this type of fuel.
Feb 3 | News
An international team of researchers has identified a new theoretical approach that may one day make the synthesis of hydrogen fuel storage materials less complicated and improve the thermodynamics and reversibility of the system.
Feb 2 | News
Painting the roofs of buildings white has the potential to significantly cool cities and mitigate some impacts of global warming, a new study indicates. The new NCAR-led research suggests there may be merit to an idea advanced by U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu that white roofs can be an important tool to help society adjust to climate change.