Computer Memory: New Material Could Dramatically Boost Data Storage, Save Energy
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| Computer Memory: New Material Could Dramatically Boost Data Storage, Save Energy Engineers have created a new material that would allow a fingernail-size computer chip to store the equivalent of 20 high-definition DVDs or 250 million pages of text, far exceeding the storage capacities of today’s computer memory systems. |
| Silver Nanoparticles Give Polymer Solar Cells A Boost Small bits of metal may play a new role in solar power. Researchers are experimenting with polymer semiconductors that absorb the sun’s energy and generate electricity. The goal: lighter, cheaper, and more-flexible solar cells. They have now discovered that adding tiny bits of silver to the plastic boosts the materials’ electrical current generation. |
| New Findings Could Help Hybrid, Electric Cars Keep Their Cool Understanding precisely how fluid boils in tiny “microchannels” has led to formulas and models that will help engineers design systems to cool high-power electronics in electric and hybrid cars, aircraft, computers and other devices. |
| Washington Energy Summit: How To Get Stimulus Funds The stimulus bill has lit a fire under U.S. states to come up with cleantech projects so they can distribute federal funding, at a time when almost every governor already is scrambling to make theirs the state with the most successful transition to a clean energy economy. Washington is no exception. (photos) |
| Installed Cost Of Solar Photovoltaic Systems In United States Fell In 2008 Researchers released a new study on the installed costs of solar photovoltaic (PV) power systems in the US, showing that the average cost of these systems declined by more than 30 percent from 1998 to 2008. Within the last year of this period, costs fell by more than 4 percent. |
| Tea with Lord Nicholas Stern Conversation with Nicholas Stern, leader of The Stern Review, Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics, and former U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer. Subjects include stimulus funds, the upcoming climate policy meetings in Copenhagen, climate change deniers, and carbon tax vs. cap-and-trade. |
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| Rejected Watermelons: The Newest Renewable Energy Source Watermelon juice can be a valuable source of biofuel. Researchers have shown that the juice of reject watermelons can be efficiently fermented into ethanol. |
| Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing - Omaha Neat blog from Fine Homebuilding magazine on building Green in Omaha. I was a charter subscriber to FHB, one of two magazines (the other being Journal of Light Construction) that bridges the gap between “fine architecture” and “getting it built”. FHB was one of the first to look at double and trombe walls, insulated foundation [.] |