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Cobalt the Answer to Cheaper, More Sustainable Solar Cells

A copper-based dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) is relatively inexpensive compared to its silicon cousin but it does not have the same level of energy conversion efficiency as a silicon solar cell. However, a new breakthrough…

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China’s Synthetic Gas Plants Would Choke Out 21 Billion Tons of Carbon Dioxide

Synthetic Gas Plants being planned in China present a host of ecological worries. China’s government has permitted construction of nine such plants in northern and western China. These plants are able to generate more than…

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Carbon Combines Web’s Spider-Man Stretch with Man of Steel Strength

Scientists at Florida State University’s MagLab facility have successfully turned spider silk into microscopic wires that can conduct electricity. This nanotubes-coated spider silk is tough and can stretch and shrink with humidity. Almost all modern…

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Cultivation Key to Saving the Baltic Sea

The Baltic Sea is one of the most-studied, most-unique and most-threatened seas in the world. Marine biologists have been exploring new ways of utilizing the Baltic Sea’s resources to protect its ecosystem. Their findings can…

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Amazing Images of Vegetation from Space

How green is Earth? The view from space turns the blue marble into a green and white wonder to show plant life. In a partnership between NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),…

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Carbon Nanotubes Look to Sideline Silicon

For decades, the transistors in computer chips have been based on silicon. These transistors control the electricity flow in computer microchips and have been getting smaller and smaller over time. But engineers are quickly approaching…

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IKEA Launches a Line of Solar Panels

IKEA is known for furnishing everything under your roof and now the store wants to put its products on your roof too. The company has begun selling solar panels in branches of stores in the…

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Algae-Powered Building Redefines Going Green

An innovative apartment block has been unveiled at the international building exhibition in Hamburg, Germany. This 15 unit apartment block – The Bio Intelligent Quotient (BIQ) house is the world’s first building that generates heat…

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Could These Solar Cells Replace Heavy Solar Panels?

Researchers at University of Alberta have discovered that phosphorus and zinc can be used to make inexpensive nanoparticle-based solar cells that can turn the sun’s power into electrical energy. Researchers have designed nanoparticles that absorb…

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Oil, Coal and Natural Gas are Powerless Compared to Geothermal Energy

Geothermal energy isn’t a new concept. The first geothermal plant was built in 1904 in Larderello, Italy; it is a “steam field” that continues to produce energy today. Generations have tapped into geothermal energy on…

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Energy

Cobalt the Answer to Cheaper, More Sustainable Solar Cells

China’s Synthetic Gas Plants Would Choke Out 21 Billion Tons of Carbon Dioxide

Carbon Combines Web’s Spider-Man Stretch with Man of Steel Strength

Cultivation Key to Saving the Baltic Sea

Amazing Images of Vegetation from Space

Carbon Nanotubes Look to Sideline Silicon

IKEA Launches a Line of Solar Panels

Algae-Powered Building Redefines Going Green

Could These Solar Cells Replace Heavy Solar Panels?

Oil, Coal and Natural Gas are Powerless Compared to Geothermal Energy

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