Archive for the ‘Power & Energy’ Category

The UAE, one of the world’s largest oil producers, has begun construction on the first carbon-neutral city, powered entirely by renewable energy

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A new green complex from world renowned architecture firm Foster + Partners will be adding more than a dash of green to the Singapore skyline. As sustainability becomes an essential ingredient to development in this island nation, the UK-based firm is leaving no stone unturned to make good use of alternative energy sources in the mixed use project.

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While hydrogen gas and fuel cells remain far-off realities for solving the fuel crunch, new computer models of interlocked carbon chambers have proven to store hydrogen at similar pressures to the cores of huge planets.

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There is. Or may be, if the current research versions of Thorium reactors pans out. I still don’t think nuclear is the way to go, and I still think that conservation should be the number one priority, but if this technology could be made to work, I could get behind it as a temporary measure.

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This week’s patent applications include nuclear plants cooled by flowing diamonds, better snowboard bindings, and a trick to advance the arrival of superfast spintronic computing

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