Potential On-off Switch For Nanoelectronics
| Semantic Web Promises A Smarter Electricity Grid Dispersed wind farms and solar panels on peoples homes are posing new challenges for managing power grids that were designed when all electricity was generated in centralized plants. A new semantic web technology promises a solution. |
| Report: U.S. companies waste $2.8B per year powering unused PCs Both financial and environmental incentives should compel organizations to embrace PC power management READ MORE |
| Potential On-off Switch For Nanoelectronics Researchers have shown that electrical resistance through a molecular junction — a nanometer scale circuit element that contacts gold atoms with a single molecule — can be turned “on” and “off” simply by pushing and pulling the junction. This feature has potential for being used as a switch in future nanoscale electronic devices. |
| Renewable Energy Tax Credits Extended as Far as 2016 On October 3, 2008, President Bush signed into law HR 1424, which includes the Energy Improvement and Extension Act of 2008. The Act extends the Production Tax Credit and Investment Tax Credit that are essential to the growth of renewable energy in the United States. The looming expiration of those credits had the renewable energy industry buzzing with speculation. |
| Solar Energy Performance With Plastic Solar Cells Improved With New Method Scientists have engineered an approach that is leading to improved performance of plastic solar cells (hybrid organic solar cells). |