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Solar Roads: Our Energy Solution? Solar Roadways The Department of Energy just gave $100,000 to upstart company Solar Roadways, to develop 12-by-12-foot solar panels, dubbed "Solar Roads," that can be embedded into roads, pumping power into the grid.
Solar Panels Built Into Roads Could Be the Future of Energy | Popular Science
Simple device which uses electrical field to boost gas efficiency developed by Temple University researcher
“We expect the device will have wide applications on all types of internal combustion engines, present ones and future ones,” Tao wrote in the published study, “Electrorheology Leads to Efficient Combustion.” Further improvements in the device could lead to even better mileage, he suggests, and cited engines powered by gasoline, biodiesel and kerosene as having potential use of the device.
Stephen Hawking to unveil strange new way to tell the time - Telegraph
Subscribe Register Log in Earth is your source for environmental and green news, with information on global warming, pollution, green living and recycling, as well as tips on how to cut your contribution to climate change. The Telegraph's Hands Off Our Land campaign is calling for the Coalition to look again at proposed changes to planning laws which risk undermining the safeguards that have protected the countryside for almost 70 years. Follow the latest developments here. Drought gardens will take centre stage at Chelsea Flower Show this year - as leading designers make a virtue of cracked earth, recycled water and Mediterranean plants. Motorists should see filth on their cars as a "badge of honour", a water company said yesterday as it urged Britons to do less cleaning during the drought.Theoretical physicists think they might have the makings of the world's first 'anti-invisibility cloak', a device which, when layered beneath an invisibility cloak, renders any object within visible again.
Anti-cloak gives vision to the invisible - tech - 03 September 2008 - New Scientist Tech
Swedish company Home Energy recently revealed an innovative wind turbine that spins in a spherical formation. Eschewing traditional rotors for a sleek orb structure, this beautiful rethinking of conventional wind turbine design utilizes the Venturi principle, which funnels wind within the turbine’s blades.
Groundbreaking Energy Ball Wind Turbine for Home Power
APOD: 2008 August 8 - The Crown of the Sun
Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. Explanation: During a total solar eclipse, the Sun's extensive outer atmosphere, or corona, is an inspirational sight.
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Science: Slow Motion Lightning Video is Mindblowing, Will Sell a Thousand Slo-Mo Cameras
There are hundreds of periodic tables in web space, but there is only one comprehensive database of periodic tables & periodic table formulations .
