Aug
15
The Path to Saving Fuel By Reducing Weight
August 15, 2008 | 5 Comments
It’s weight, then air resistance, and generally overall efficiency in everything else. While oil spirals downward for the next stage in pricing we might be thinking to get lax and relieved, but it won’t last. Months maybe or a year or so and we’ll be spiraling up again. In the meantime getting set to invest […]
Aug
14
Following the Thermal Solar Money!
August 14, 2008 | 2 Comments
Ausra of Palo Alto, California, who builds utility-level solar thermal power, has raised $24.5 million in a third round of funding from returning investors Khosla Ventures and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Now a new investor KERN Partners, based in Alberta, Canada, has also joined the round. This announcement is just over a month from […]
Aug
13
Research For Teaching How To Buy Plugin Hybrid Electric Vehicles
August 13, 2008 | 4 Comments
John Axsen and Ken Kurani at the University of California’s Institute of Transportation Studies completed what may become a landmark in getting good handles on the personal vehicles available for purchase in the coming years in the form of plugin hybrid electric vehicles. (A pdf download) What the study learned is the state of consumer […]
Aug
12
A New Kind of Refrigeration
August 12, 2008 | 2 Comments
Imagine a refrigerator, air conditioner or other compressed gaseous system that has no more coils, compressors and controls. Penn State’s Qiming Zhang is offering that his research is yielding a refrigeration technique that is based in ferroelectric polymers. Ferroelectric polymers exhibit piezoelectric and pyroelectric effects that are usually encountered in certain single crystals and ceramics. […]
Aug
11
Breaking the Boundary – A Connection to a Better Fuel Cell
August 11, 2008 | 8 Comments
For a week I’ve marveled at the innovative connection made at Australia’s Monash University in which Goretex®, a material that’s commonly used in layered fabrics that allows passage of water vapor but not water droplets is being used in a fuel cell development. Starting with the Goretex® the scientists at Monash applied a fine 0.4 […]
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