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British to Test Geoengineering Scheme

Researchers will soon attempt to pump water a kilometer into the air to test a geoengineering technique for offsetting the warming…

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World's Largest Concentrating Solar PV Project Moves Ahead

Cogentrix secures DOE loan for world's largest concentrating solar photovoltaic plant to be built in southern-central Colorado.

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A New and Improved Moore's Law

"Koomey's law" claims that at a fixed computing load, the battery power needed will drop by a factor of two approximately every 18…

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Peering into a Quantum Well

UCSB research team cracks root cause of "LED droop."

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Why the Next Steve Jobs Will be in Energy, Not Computers

Will the world's energy problems be solved in a manner similar to the way that Apple changed computers?

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Brazilian Football Stadium Installs 403kWp Solar Array

The Estádio de Pituacu is the first football stadium in Latin America to install solar panels.

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The First Fully Stretchable OLED

Researchers at UCLA are on their way to developing the first OLED display screens that can stretch, shrink and fold.

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Power-Scavenging Batteries

MicroGen Systems is developing low-cost, energy-harvesting chips that convert mechanical energy into electricity from environmental…

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Supercapacitors Enable Harsh-environment Energy Storage

New, high-energy batteries that can withstand harsh environments developed using nanotube-based supercapacitors at Rice University.

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Advanced Electrodes for Better Li-Ion Batteries

Korean researchers have developed a new anode that holds three times more charge than conventional graphite anodes. This could lead to…

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DOE Backs Thin Flexible Solar Panels

Loans from the Department of Energy are leading to advances in flexible solar cell technology, as well as creating new jobs.

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Solar Power Coming to 90+ California Schools

SunPower has partnered with the California School Boards Association to bring solar power to more than ninety schools across the state…

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IBM's New Chips Compute More Like We Do

Researches at IBM have developed two chip prototypes that intertwine computational power with memory, similar to the how the human brain…

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Energy-Harvesting Displays

Two separate research groups have developed light-harvesting filters that can be added to LCD displays to recharge batteries in portable…

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Solar Roadways to Build Solar-Powered Parking Lot

Roads that use solar power to melt snow, spell warnings for motorists, or connect to weight sensitive panels that illuminate a crosswalk…

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Venture Capitalists Back Away from Clean Energy

Venture capitalists are shifting their clean technology investment strategy to focus less on high-risk technologies and more on ideas…

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