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Electricity and carbon dioxide used to generate alternative fuel Posted: 29 Mar 2012 02:16 PM PDT Imagine being able to use electricity to power your car and it's not an electric vehicle. Researchers have for the first time demonstrated a method for converting carbon dioxide into liquid fuel isobutanol using electricity.

First the smart phone, now the smart home: Technology anticipates, meets our needs for health, efficiency Posted: 29 Mar 2012 02:04 PM PDT We have all heard of the smartphone and any day now, most of us will have one. Not far behind: The smart home. Scientists say it won't be long before our homes act as "intelligent agents" that use sensors and software to anticipate our needs and tend to tasks that improve our health, energy efficiency, even social media.

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Wind turbines that learn like humans Posted: 27 Mar 2012 12:29 PM PDT A control algorithm inspired by human memory may increase wind turbine efficiency while requiring less computational power than other control methods.

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• How will widespread use of electric cars impact the power grid?
• Playing at home energy savings
• Wind turbines that learn like humans
• More energy efficient transistors through quantum tunneling

How will widespread use of electric cars impact the power grid? Posted: 28 Mar 2012 08:32 AM PDT A resource to estimate the impact that greater use of electric vehicles will have on the national grid has been developed by a team of experts.

Playing at home energy savings Posted: 28 Mar 2012 06:08 AM PDT An approach to cutting domestic energy consumption based on playing a game - Energy Battle - can lead to household savings of up to 45% on electricity consumption and lead to better energy-saving habits, says a new study.

Wind turbines that learn like humans Posted: 27 Mar 2012 12:29 PM PDT A control algorithm inspired by human memory may increase wind turbine efficiency while requiring less computational power than other control methods.

More energy efficient transistors through quantum tunneling Posted: 26 Mar 2012 01:09 PM PDT Researchers have announced breakthroughs in the development of tunneling field effect transistors, a semiconductor technology that takes advantage of the quirky behavior of electrons at the quantum level.

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New dimension for solar energy: Innovative 3-D designs more than double the solar power generated per area Posted: 27 Mar 2012 06:46 AM PDT Intensive research around the world has focused on improving the performance of solar photovoltaic cells and bringing down their cost. But very little attention has been paid to the best ways of arranging those cells, which are typically placed flat on a rooftop or other surface, or sometimes attached to motorized structures that keep the cells pointed toward the sun as it crosses the sky. Now, a team of researchers has come up with a very different approach: building cubes or towers that extend the solar cells upward in three-dimensional configurations.

Nuclear power plants can produce hydrogen to fuel the 'hydrogen economy' Posted: 26 Mar 2012 08:25 AM PDT The long-sought technology for enabling the fabled "hydrogen economy" — an era based on hydrogen fuel that replaces gasoline, diesel and other fossil fuels, easing concerns about foreign oil and air pollution — has been available for decades and could begin commercial production of hydrogen in this decade, a scientist has reported.

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Brown liquor and solar cells to provide sustainable electricity Posted: 22 Mar 2012 11:21 AM PDT A breakthrough for inexpensive electricity from solar cells, and a massive investment in wind power, will mean a need to store energy in an intelligent way. According to new research batteries of biological waste products from pulp mills could provide the solution.

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Cylinder hides contents and makes them invisible to magnetic fields Posted: 22 Mar 2012 12:15 PM PDT Researchers have created a cylinder which hides contents and makes them invisible to magnetic fields. The device was built using superconductor and ferromagnetic materials available on the market.

Liquid-like materials may pave way for new thermoelectric devices Posted: 22 Mar 2012 10:15 AM PDT In the continual quest for better thermoelectric materials -- which convert heat into electricity and vice versa -- researchers have identified a liquid-like compound whose properties give it the potential to be even more efficient than traditional thermoelectrics.

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