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Gull Wing Doors and Hybrid Motor Feature in Hyundai Nuvis Concept Car

Hyundai Motor America unveiled the highly anticipated HCD-11 Nuvis concept at the New York International Auto Show. The Nuvis features Hyundai's Hybrid Blue Drive powertrain and large gull-wing doors in a future-generation crossover body, blending attributes of a tall urban car and a premium utility vehicle

14 Apr 2009

Orders Come In For Waste Heat Electricity Generator

Ener-G-Rotors announces their first order for a TGE50, a 50kW waste heat to electricity appliance

14 Apr 2009

New Tool Estimates the Amount of Pesticides, Fertilizers and Other Chemicals That Can Be Avoided Through Organic Dairy Farming

A calculator has been developed to help consumers, dairy farmers, and food companies estimate the avoided environmental, public health, and animal welfare impacts associated with shifting dairy cows from conventional to organic management

13 Apr 2009

California Climate Change Experts to Discuss Global Warming at Science Summit

Scripps to host leading state experts on wildfires, water supply, sea-level rise and societal and economic impacts of climate change

13 Apr 2009

Impact of Bioethanol on Water Supply Three Times Higher Than Previously Thought

Scientists in Minnesota are reporting that production of bioethanol — often regarded as the clean-burning energy source of the future — may consume up to three times more water than previously thought

13 Apr 2009

Sundarbans Inslanders Use Technology to Protect Against Climate Change Threats of Rising Sea Levels and Cyclones

The 20,000 residents of tiny, vulnerable Mousuni Island in the Indian Sundarbans are using technology to protect themselves from climate change-related threats – including deadly cyclones and rising sea levels – now impacting more and more severely upon them

13 Apr 2009

The Mathematics of Climate Change

Kenneth Golden, an expert in mathematical models of percolation in sea ice, is a leader in the international effort to model polar climate dynamics and has brought a new level of rigor and precision to this area of research. A forthcoming article describes the mathematics he and collaborators have developed to study sea ice

13 Apr 2009

Cytec and IMEC Team Up to Develop Commercially Viable Organic Solar Cells

Industries Inc and IMEC will work together to develop a commercially viable technology for organic photovoltaic devices with enhanced stability and extended lifetime

13 Apr 2009

Chrysler Selects A123 Systems to Make Batteries For New Hybrid and Electric Cars

Auto manufacturer Chrysler said this week it has chosen A123Systems, a Watertown company based on technology developed at MIT, to make batteries for its new Envi line of electric and hybrid cars

8 Apr 2009

Milestone Reached for Harnessing Energy from the Ocean

The Center for Ocean Energy Technology has deployed four Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers moorings in the Atlantic Ocean off the east coast of Florida to characterize in detail the spatial and temporal variability of the Gulf Stream, the most energy dense ocean current, for its potential use as an abundant renewable energy source

8 Apr 2009