Posts Tagged ‘alternative energy’

Solar Powered Shingles and More

Author: admin | Filed under: Energy & Environment, Materials Tuesday Jun 16,2009

The future of solar cells – small and flexible enough to be put on your roof as shingles.

Energy With A Twist

Author: admin | Filed under: Energy & Environment, Science Applied Monday Apr 27,2009

Using an Archimedean Hydro screw to power a condo building.

New Solar Panel Material

Author: admin | Filed under: Energy & Environment, Materials Friday Oct 17,2008

Scientists at the Ohio State University have developed a new solar energy material that has two major advantages over current materials : it can use the all the energy that comes from the sunlight and makes it easier to capture the electrons it generates. The hybrid material is a result of combining electrically conductive plastic [...]

Steps Taken Towards Producing Graphene Material

Author: admin | Filed under: Materials, Nanotech Friday Sep 26,2008

Researchers at the University Of Texas in Austin came up with a new material that helps solve the structure of graphite oxide and could provoke a cascade of other potential discoveries of the one-atom thick substance called graphene.
But first of all, what is this ‘graphene” ?
Graphene is a one-atom-thick planar sheet of sp2-bonded carbon atoms [...]

New Energy Source : The Asphalt

Author: admin | Filed under: Energy & Environment, Research Tuesday Sep 9,2008

New Energy Source: The Asphalt ? Well, not the asphalt by itself, but you must have noticed that parking lots on summer days are a killer! Asphalt gathers a lot of energy from the sun and retains it’s heat even after the sun goes down. The world is full of roads, so there will be [...]

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