Jun
30
CIGS You’re Going to Like
June 30, 2011 | 2 Comments
“CIGS” stands for the copper, indium, gallium and selenium elements comprising chalcopyrite, one of the most promising compounds for advanced solar panels. You’ll like them because engineers at Oregon State University have discovered the initial way to create successful “CIGS” solar devices with inkjet printing. The familiar inkjet printer is a low-cost technology that with [...]
Jun
29
Magnet Power Climbs Again
June 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment
This time the team at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf set a new world record for magnetic fields with 91.4 teslas. Sergei Zherlitsyn and his colleagues at the High Magnetic Field Laboratory Dresden (HLD) developed and used an electromagnetic coil weighing about 200 kilograms in which electric current created the giant magnetic field – for a period of [...]
Jun
28
100 Percent of Sunlight Capture For Solar Panels
June 28, 2011 | 3 Comments
Currently solar panels come in two main forms, photovoltaic panels to harvest visible light for electricity production and thermal panels to harvest the infrared spectrum for heat. In a paper published in Nature Photonics, University of Toronto Engineering (UTE) researchers report a new solar cell that may pave the way to inexpensive coatings that convert [...]
Jun
27
Established Physics Has Another New Fusion Problem
June 27, 2011 | 16 Comments
Brillouin Energy Corp In Berkeley California has another Low Energy Nuclear Reaction (LENR) method in the development and proving stage. The new method comes at fusion from a different path than the Rossi E-Cat. The reports have the Brillouin at nearly 2 times the energy coming out from that going in. If this is real [...]
Jun
24
You’ve Been Sold Out
June 24, 2011 | 21 Comments
Your humble writer saw the commodity market news that the administration is releasing 30 millions barrels of crude oil from the strategic reserve. 1st thought . . . Pfft. The U.S.’s thirty million plus thirty million from others is about 2/3 of a day’s use or production. It’s below paltry – its two thirds of [...]
Jun
23
Heat Direct to Electricity Alloy Found
June 23, 2011 | 2 Comments
University of Minnesota (UM) engineering researchers in the College of Science and Engineering have recently discovered a new alloy material that converts heat directly into electricity. Getting from heat to electric power has a loss of the energy i.e. steam to turbine to generator with each step having energy losses of significance that the UM [...]
Jun
22
Freedom At Risk
June 22, 2011 | 6 Comments
One hundred years ago having a horse was the vehicle of personal freedom – personal transportation, the means to go where we want when we want. Loose that and freedom as an experience of life will diminish, the standard of living as felt collapses, access to choice goes out of reach. Your freedom is under [...]
Jun
21
The Incredible Shrinking LED
June 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Many expect that LED technology is the electric light source for the future. It would be a very good bet. LEDs offer very low power consumption and long life. The current downside is the initial investment and the replacement cost projection. The economics work, but it takes years. University of Miami professor at the College [...]
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