Enormous amounts of thermal energy arrive each day in solar energy and a huge share of the thermal or heat energy we consume is simply lost to the air to radiate away into space. With only a little engineering know how, realization of the losses are appalling. Steve Novack at the Idaho National Laboratory whose […]

Michigan State University researcher David Kramer a Hannah Distinguished Professor of Photosynthesis and Bioenergetics leads an effort to improve fuel and food producing plants saying, “This is critical since it’s the process that powers all of life in our ecosystem. The efficiency of photosynthesis, and our ability to improve it, is critical to whether the […]

U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory scientists Dong Su and Eric Stach have helped to uncover the nanoscale structure of a novel form of carbon, contributing to an explanation of why this new material acts like a super-absorbent sponge when it comes to soaking up electric charge. The excitement is about a new material […]

The very lucky Alan Boyle who writes the CosmicLog on the MSNBC site interviewed the new leader at Dr. Robert Bussard’s EMC2 Inertial Electrostatic Containment fusion project. The leading comment for news comes from new CEO Jaeyoung Park who has assumed the position since Rick Nebel retired back in November. The key quote is Park […]

Getting solar energy into a stored form is a major and elusive goal.  One idea that has intrigued for decades is using solar energy to split water for the hydrogen product.  Some wee progress has been made.  May 10, 2011 saw a Swiss Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) team discovering that it is possible […]

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