Too much of a good thing could be harmful to the environment. For years, scientists have known about silver's ability to kill harmful bacteria and, recently, have used this knowledge to create consumer products containing silver nanoparticles.
DOE photovoltaic funding for years has gone to programs that promise more efficient conversion of sunlight to electricity, or in aiding solar start-up companies. It's called "technology push."
Over millions of years carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere have been moderated by a finely-tuned natural feedback system- a system that human emissions have recently overwhelmed.
Babcock Power Inc. of Danvers, Massachusetts and ThermoEnergy Corporation, announce the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding as a prelude to the formation of a joint effort to commercialize the Company’s zero air emission power plant design called ThermoEnergy Integrated Power System.
Clean Diesel Technologies, Inc., the cleantech emissions reduction company, and Skanska, one of the world's leading construction groups, today announced the successful deployment of Clean Diesel's Purifier System based on its patented catalyzed wire mesh filter (CWMF) technology on Skanska cranes being used for the construction of a new water filtration facility in Croton, NY, a source of drinking water for Manhattan and the Bronx.
A breakthrough barrier technology from Singapore A*STAR's Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE) protects sensitive devices like organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) and solar cells from moisture 1000 times more effectively than any other technology available in the market, opening up new opportunities for the up-and-coming plastic electronics sector.
As part of its Sustainable Computing Program, Microsoft Corp. today announced it will support four academic research projects focused on energy efficiency in computing in the areas of datacenter power efficiency, power management and the creation of parallel computing architecture with decreased power demands.
MIT Professor Dara Entekhabi will lead the science team designing a NASA satellite mission to make global soil moisture and freeze/thaw measurements, data essential to the accuracy of weather forecasts and predictions of global carbon cycle and climate.
In America, and in most developed countries of the world, we buy and discard lots and lots of packaging. In the United States 10 percent - one of every 10 dollars we spend on purchases - goes toward the packaging that contains the things we buy.
Sustainability was on the minds of many of today’s speakers at the World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioprocessing, an annual conference attracting more than 1200 scientists, business leaders, and government officials that began in full today in Chicago.
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