The air-conditioning system and most of the cleanroom structures that were damaged in the fire have been completely replaced. Covering a floor area of 1,100…
MIT researchers are developing a half-sized gasoline engine that performs like its full-sized cousin but offers fuel efficiency approaching that of today's…
The equipment is supplied by a small SINTEF start-up company in Trondheim called ResMan as, whose work is based on many years of research at SINTEF and the…
Cloaks that render objects essentially invisible to microwaves could have a variety of wireless communications or radar applications, according to the…
The 1-centimeter square coating, just 3 micrometers thick, is the first standard for the chemical composition of thin-film semiconductor alloys issued by the…
Simon, 23, recently completed his BSc (Hons) in Product Design, and originally developed his unique waterless egg boiler as a final year project and is now…
In the process, synthesis gas will be refined from biomass for the production of diesel fuels. The extensive test operation that is about to be launched will…
This is the opinion of Mr. Egil Lillestol, professor at the Institute of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen. The past year he has spent much of his…
Burning natural gas to produce all that heat is the second largest expense at most ethanol plants — trailing only the cost of the corn used for ethanol…
Because solar flares — larger-than-normal radiation “burps” by the sun — are generally unpredictable, such failures could be devastating for “safety-of-life”…
With U.S. electricity demand projected to increase by nearly 50 percent over the next 25 years, the Bush administration and others see nuclear power as an…
Applications include power supplies for small appliances and laptop computers, and on-site rechargers for battery packs used by the military. “The catalytic…
It could also dramatically lighten the load for people who can't connect to a power grid, including soldiers who now must carry many pounds of batteries for a…
“We have a lot of sunlight,” said Vikram Dalal as sunshine lit up a late-summer morning and the south-facing windows of his office at Iowa State University's…
Today's offshore wind turbines usually stand on towers driven deep into the ocean floor. But that arrangement works only in water depths of about 15 meters or…
Brown University engineers have created a new battery that uses plastic, not metal, to conduct electrical current. The hybrid device marries the power of a…
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