There is Still Time to Take Action on The 2007 Energy Bill
| Could Waste Heat From Car Exhausts Be Recycled To Help Power Cars? Researchers are exploring how waste heat from car exhausts could provide a new greener power supply for vehicles. Similar conversion technology is used in everyday applications such as controlling the central heating system or refrigerator temperature. Now researchers aim to use this technology to generate electricity from the waste heat in vehicles. |
| Special Coating Greatly Improves Solar Cell Performance Current-generation solar cell technologies are too expensive and inefficient for wide-scale commercial applications. Now researchers have developed a new anode coating strategy that significantly enhances the efficiency of solar energy power conversion. Their work focuses on “engineering” organic material-electrode interfaces in bulk-hetero-junction organic solar cells. The breakthrough promises to bring researchers and developers worldwide closer to the goal of producing cheaper, more manufacturable and more easily implemented solar cells. |
| Cow Power Could Generate Electricity For Millions Converting livestock manure into a domestic renewable fuel source could generate enough electricity to meet up to three percent of North America’s entire consumption needs and lead to a significant reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, according to U.S. research. |
| Freeing Light Shines Promise On Energy-efficient Lighting The latest bright idea in energy-efficient lighting for homes and offices uses big science in nano-small packages to dim the future Edison’s light bulb. A new discovery pushes more appealing white light from organic light-emitting devices. More white light is the holy grail of the next generation of lighting. The innovation describes a way to deliver significantly more bright light from a watt than incandescent bulbs. |
| Sunshine-to-Petrol Project Seeks Fuel From Thin Air Using concentrated solar energy to reverse combustion, scientists are building a prototype device intended to chemically “reenergize” carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide using concentrated solar power. The carbon monoxide could then be used to make hydrogen or serve as a building block to synthesize a liquid combustible fuel, such as methanol or even gasoline, diesel and jet fuel. |
| Solar Power Conference 2007 - Long Beach, California Solar Night Industries will be attending the Solar Power Conference in Long Beach, California the week of September 24, 2007. |
| Well, I have good news and I have bad news. .The good news is: The new energy bill passed in the House last week! The bad news is that it did not pass in the Senate! But there is good news about the bad news! The Senate is voting on the bill again tomorrow! Therefore, once again you’ll have to take action. But, don’t worry, once gain I’ve made it easy for you. Click here to see how your senator voted, and to bug them a little before they vote tomorrow. If your senator voted for the bill–THANK THEM! If your senator voted against this bill please pass this link. |
| Ultra Low-cost Plastic Memory Developed Researchers have developed a technology for a plastic ferro-electric diode which they believe will achieve a breakthrough in the development of ultra low-cost plastic memory material. |
| Fuels Cells: New Material Increases Power Output By More Than 50 Percent Engineers have improved the power output of one type of fuel cell by more than 50 percent through technology that could help these environmentally friendly energy storage devices find a much broader market, particularly in portable electronics. |
| There is Still Time to Take Action on The 2007 Energy Bill The Solar Action Energy Society has a page on their website that allows you to e-mail and/or call your local representative to make sure they support and include the important provisions (higher CAFE standards and a commitment to renewable energy) of this legislation. On this page they also have a hyperlink to more info on the bill, as well as an “alert” flyer you can print and hang at work or local coffee shops etc. Check it out.and please DO SOMETHING! Renewable energy is important and cannot continue to be neglected! |