breakthroughs

Getting Closer to Hydrogen as a Viable Fuel

 Hydrogen is often held up as the fuel of the future, but there are some problems with good old H-2.  First, it’s explosive.  Second, as the lightest element, Earth’s...

Getting Closer to Hydrogen as a Viable Fuel

 Hydrogen is often held up as the fuel of the future, but there are some problems with good old H-2.  First, it’s explosive.  Second, as the lightest element, Earth’s...

Fire up the ionic wind generators, he’s using Photoshop again

 I don’t know if this is a post for here or PimpYourWork, but eh, we’ll do it here (more science than work I guess).  We know that electrical resistance makes heat (this how...

Thin, flexible, carbon nanotube batteries developed

 Not only does our world run on electricity, it runs on batteries.  Batteries, while greatly improved even in my lifetime,  still have a way to go.  They are heavy (relatively),...

What if bacteria could make gasoline?

 One of the problems with our dependence on petroleum is that it isn’t “renewable” (technically, it is … it just takes so long that it isn’t functionally), but what...

Could heliotubes turn any surface into a solar power station–yes

 Think of all the small, free-standing structures you see in a given day.  Bus stops, small sheds, fixed awnings.  They are put there to keep sun (yes and rain, I know) off...

Significant improvement in solar cell efficiency–42.8%!

Remember me talking about wind-power hitting a tipping point and how solar was almost there?  In a case of news almost made to order is this bit of news: The University of Delaware has inched up...

An allergy-free peanut could be on the horizon

I don’t know anyone with a severe allergy to peanuts, but I do know that people who are live in a world where just about any food could make them sick, or worse. News from North Carolina might...

Another step closer to bionic replacement parts

Replacement limbs have generally been somewhat useful objects.  Sure, there are hooks, and some bio-mechanical hands, and much better legs now, but true bionics have eluded us, until now: Touch...

Modern improvement on gathering water from the air

 In the Andes, the Incas and modern-day descendents have been gathering water from the fog for centuries.  The process there is simple, the fog hits some kind of cloth or sheeting and the...