The National Hockey League has picked the Pittsburgh Penguin’s brand new LEED Gold hockey stadium as the “perfect place” to kick off its new recycling campaign, which will focus on getting tailgaters to recycle their cans and bottles when they attend the 2011 NHL Winter Classic game today. It’s yet … [continued]
Think of highly portable wind turbines that can adjust their height to take advantage of the best winds, and you’ve got the next generation of airborne wind energy devices. A 100-kW model from Magenn Power, Inc. is about to go on the market, so let’s dig a little deeper into … [continued]
If you spent any time in school over the past generation or so, you probably experienced those old-time overhead flickering fluorescent light fixtures, and maybe you wondered if they were exchanging some kind of secret code with government spies, alien invaders, or maybe just with each other. Well, wonder no … [continued]
Headed up by the University of Illinois, a research team has developed a new strain of yeast that can feast on two very different types of plant sugar at the same time. The new breakthrough could lead to far more cost-effective operations for producing biofuel from woody non-food crops. The … [continued]
Start-stop is a fuel saving approach mainly associated with hybrid vehicles, in which the engine automatically cuts off instead of idling when you stop. Sounds a little scary at first, but now that a good chunk of the motoring public has gotten used to it, Ford has decided share the … [continued]
2011 marks the 100th anniversary of the Indy 500, and Indiana’s venerable celebration of the motor vehicle will mark the occasion by hosting its first Emerging Tech Day, featuring cutting edge alternative fuel vehicles cooked up by teams of college and university students. All you other states better look out, … [continued]
A sprawling international collaboration between scientists at government and university laboratories has resulted in a breakthrough discovery that could lead to more efficient ways of generating electricity from waste heat. The phenomenon, called the thermoelectric effect, can be applied to car exhaust, factory emissions, and other operations to capture the … [continued]
The findings are preliminary, but suggestive: researchers from Ames National Laboratory and the University of Colorado have compiled evidence that wind turbines sited on farmlands may actually help certain crops thrive even when weather conditions are less than ideal. If further study does reveal a definite connection, it marks a … [continued]
A researcher at the University of Connecticut has come up with a solution for certain kinds of coastal water pollution. Professor Charles Yarish is developing an engineered ecosystem based on seaweed and shellfish that could help reduce excess nutrients, one of the vital signs of a healthy marine environment. Excess … [continued]
When life hands you lemons, you should make…car parts!?! That’s pretty much the idea behind GM’s latest green maneuver. Not content to introduce its Chevy Volt electric-gasoline vehicle as an all-American car for all Americans while creating a bonanza of green jobs (and more green jobs) in the U.S., GM … [continued]
