Tag: energy
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Does Your Start-up Have To Care About The Environment?
Environmental concerns are here to stay and this is something that your enterprise, big or small, will need to embrace.
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3 Ways To Make Your Business Eco-Friendly (And How Doing So Can Benefit You)
There can actually be many different benefits to running an eco-friendly business.
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Growing Engineered Algae Outdoors Shown Feasible, Safe
A test of cultivating genetically engineered algae in outdoor tanks shows the production technique is feasible and does not pose risks to native algae populations.
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NSF Supports Chip Enabling Low-Power Electronics
An engineering lab at University of Texas in San Antonio received a grant to assess the commercial potential for a chip that lets electronic devices work with much less power.
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Stomach Acid Harnessed to Power Ingestible Devices
Researchers at MIT and Harvard University designed a tiny device that in tests with animals show it can run for days powered by acids in the stomach.
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Solar Cells Shown Feasible to Power Medical Implants
Biomedical engineers in Switzerland built and field-tested small solar cells that generated enough energy for implanted medical devices like heart pacemakers.
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Solar Reactor Devised for Small-Scale Chemical Production
An engineering group developed a solar-powered catalytic reactor that can produce small amounts of drugs and agricultural chemicals on demand.
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Trump Transition Seeking Info on National Labs
The transition team for president-elect Donald Trump is seeking details about activities of U.S. national labs and programs related to climate change operated by Department of Energy.
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Fuel Cell Vehicles Reach Market, Seek Critical Mass
As the first hydrogen fuel cell vehicles go on sale, a group of companies and government agencies are seeking ways to encourage sales to help meet national goals for reducing greenhouse gases.
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Nanotech Plastic Textile Dissipates Body Heat
A new plastic textile material developed at Stanford University is shown to reflect sunlight while allowing more heat from the body to escape, keeping people cooler.