Nov
9
The Strongest Magnet Attempt
November 9, 2009 | 4 Comments
The National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee Florida has been awarded nearly $3 million to build a novel kind of superconducting magnet that’s expected to break records for magnetic field strength, make possible new types of science and save vast amounts of energy and money. Of interest is the technologies that could benefit from [...]
Sep
4
Seeing Superconductivity
September 4, 2009 | 1 Comment
Researchers at the Brookhaven National Laboratory at Cornell University and the Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan, in a paper published in Science August 28th, 2009 show for the first time that the spectroscopic “fingerprint” of high-temperature superconductivity remains intact well above the super cold temperatures at which these materials carry current with [...]
May
25
Progress Update on Magnetic Refrigeration
May 25, 2009 | 4 Comments
The Ames Laboratory at Iowa State University hosted a magnetic refrigeration conference that drew an international audience in Des Moines Iowa on May 12, 2009. The focus of the four-day event was on an energy efficient form of refrigeration that replaces gas compressors and ozone-depleting refrigerants with a system that uses special alloys and a [...]
Mar
17
A Great Idea for Using Carbon Nanotubes
March 17, 2009 | 1 Comment
Lots of researchers are making, by ‘growing,’ carbon nanotubes, so last week when researchers from Rice University and the University of Oulu in Oulu, Finland, announced finding that carbon nanotubes could significantly improve the performance of electrical commutators that are common in electric motors and generators, one gets an attention seizure. The research appeared [...]
Dec
9
New Lights From OLEDs
December 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment
BASF the European chemical company and Osram Opto Semiconductors a part of the Siemens conglomerate of Germany have announced that they have an organic light emitting diode that delivers more than 60 lumens per watt of energy used. If you check the box of the common incandescent or even the latest compact florescent bulbs you [...]
Nov
21
Watching A Catalyst at Work
November 21, 2008 | 2 Comments
A team at Cornell University led by Professor Peng Chen has developed an internal reflection fluorescence microscope that is more versatile than commercial models designed to observe a catalyst at work. This is a first and an important breakthrough event.
“Ingenious” as described by the University writer Bill Steele, the microscope is part of a method [...]
Oct
30
Watching Catalysts Work
October 30, 2008 | 3 Comments
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory scientists have managed to observe catalysts restructuring themselves as gases are moved through. Using a state-of-the-art spectroscopy system the team watched, for the first time, as nanoparticles composed of two catalytic metals changed their composition in the presence of different reactants. Until now, scientists have had to rely on snapshots of [...]
Aug
15
The Path to Saving Fuel By Reducing Weight
August 15, 2008 | 1 Comment
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 in [...]
