Killer Bacteria Could Breathe New Life into Biofuel Production
Put this one in the category of every cloud has a silver lining: E. coli, the bacteria notorious for contaminating food products from lettuce to ground beef, could also play a key role in developing the next generation of biofuels. A team of scientists from Rutgers University is working with...
Dark Silicon Could Lead to Bright Future for Solar Powered Smart Phones
Researchers at the University of California have developed a smart phone chip that could spur a new generation of more efficient mobile electronic devices. In turn, a more energy efficient device would enable the more widespread use of solar energy and other forms of renewable energy for battery...
This Brilliant LED Is 20,000 Times More Powerful
In a truly staggering breakthrough in LED intensity that will have wide ramifications on electricity use worldwide, the Finnish LED producer Obelux has developed by far the most powerful white flashing LED of all time. In response to aviation industry requests, Obelux created a flashing High...
Graphene Gate Opens the Door to Smaller, Faster, Less Toxic Electronics
A team of researchers at UCLA has developed a new way to make super-fast graphene transistors that are comparable to transistors that use more expensive (and toxic) materials. If successful commercially, the new graphene based technology could play a key role in energy conservation and waste...
Do you "Go with the Flow" or "Stock up just in Case"?
This is a guest post by Kurt Cobb. It originally ran on his blog, Resource Insights. A frequent critique of those who claim we still have enormous stocks of resources left to exploit is that the flow or rate of extraction is far more important to the health of the world economy than the size of...
Oil Rig Explosion Fuels Fire of Offshore Drilling Debate
The explosion on a production platform Thursday in the Gulf of Mexico has intensified an already spirited national debate about offshore oil and gas development. Thirteen workers were rescued from the water after evacuating a fiery production platform in the Gulf of Mexico, 100 miles off the Coast...
The Fake Fire Brigade Revisited #3 - The Biggest Part of Business As Usual - Electricity
Below the fold is the 3rd in a series of follow up posts providing analysis on the difficulties of maintaining our current energy paradigm with renewable energy (generally, 'the fake fire brigade'). The main authors are Hannes Kunz, President of Institute for Integrated Economic Research (IIER)...
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