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Eco Factor: Core-Shell Silicon Nanowires can improve the capacity of Li-Ion batteries.
Technologies of the future will depend more on portable power sources than on anything else. The performance of these batteries needs to be considerably...
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Greenpeace International has just released its Guide to Greener Electronics wherein Nokia enjoys the top ranking. It is quite heartening that the cellphone...
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If you were doing worse on climate action than Russia and the United States after eight years of Bush’s environmental policies, you’d know you had a problem. So it...
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The acquisition of farmland from the world’s poor by rich countries and international corporations is accelerating at an alarming rate, with an area half the size...
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The Sakarya University Advanced Technologies Implementation Group (SAITEM) sets a record in fuel efficiency. Having been adjudged the third best fuel-efficient car in...
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Eco Factor: Zero-emission car running on hydrogen gets 568km per liter of hydrogen.
Soaring fuel prices and the rise in global warming have always made inventors put...
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Brad Pitt surely deserves to be there in the green celebs’ list. Well, you may or may not agree to it. Still his foundation, Make It Right, makes him proud in...
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Cheap Chic Weddings.com, is a wedding website that helps you plan a beautiful and elegant wedding without spending your life savings on your big day. The contest called...
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Fossils of three new species of dinosaurs have been discovered in Queensland, including a meat-eater larger than Velociraptor from the Jurassic Park movies, suggesting...
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Eco Factor: Urine broken down into hydrogen using electrolysis.
With the dearth of low-emission fuels and the high cost of renewable energy generating system such as...
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The Slovenian hydro pumped storage power plant has given all the bicyclists a reason to smile. Built with an innovative approach, it provides riders with an open plain...
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The UK is serious about cutting down on its CO2 emissions and reducing the ever-increasing noise pollution. As it’s quite imperative to monitor the air quality before...
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Eco Factor: Nitrogen-fueled fireworks produce less smoke and lesser toxins.
Be it Diwali in India or the Fourth of July celebrations in U.S., people love to watch...
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A single mega-colony of ants has colonised much of the world, scientists have discovered.
Argentine ants living in vast numbers across Europe, the US and Japan belong...
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InterHome, a new home that is capable of learning and adapting to its residents and take critical actions. In case the doors are left unlocked or burglers intrude, you...
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SMIT (Sustainably Minded Interactive Technology) does a great job in making solar panels to flutter and gleam while lending a perfect grace to your abode. The siblings,...
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Motorola, one of the world leaders in the development and deployment of TETRA communication solutions, has been commissioned by Sine Network to install a total of 40...
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One of the world’s best hybrid cars, Toyota’s Prius thinks ahead of the times. Even before hitting the market, Toyota has plans to keep it fully recyclable when it...
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Eco Factor: Zero-emission lawnmower is powered by electricity.
Gone are the days when mowing your lawn in the morning could have triggered a neighborhood brawl....
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The architects at Gray Organschi Architecture have designed a simple but innovative structure from raw materials giving a completely new meaning to creativity. This...
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Eco Factor: Eco artist turns plastic trash into functional jewelry.
What relevance do trashed plastic bottles and aluminum cans hold for normal party animals? I guess...
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Silicon Valley, the nation’s center of high-tech innovation, is exporting a new kind of product _ frustrated former CEOs leaping from the boardroom to politics...
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If IBM Corp. had managed to buy longtime rival Sun Microsystems Inc., it might have been as incongruous as waking up to a big blue sun.
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Eco Factor: Replacing graphite anode with nano-silicon enhances current storage capacity of lithium-ion batteries.
The only factor preventing global adoption of...
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AP, Sunnyvale
Many of the problems facing Advanced Micro Devices Inc. are of its own making. But the limited choices the chip maker has for solving its troubles are symptoms of an...
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Graphene, the tough material that can stand even a diamond cutter may soon be used in manufacturing microchips. Graphene may soon replace silicon and help manufacture...
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Joy Yang of Queensland Univeristy of Technology, Australia has designed the Glowing Bubble, a lighting system for the elderly that aims to help them lead an independent...
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In yet another innovation that could further Moore’s law and make it much more relevant, even in the future, we now have a transistor created by British...
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One of the major reasons why the world is not taking up solar energy as rapidly as it should is because of the simple fact that the initial installation cost is too...
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Here is a very true to its name backless bra. Sassybax has launched one. It comes in two colors- nude and black with silicon cups and spandex material. It does not have...
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We all are already well aware of the value of ‘Carbon’ as a building block of life itself. We owe our very existence to carbon and its miraculous property...
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AP, San Jose
A Silicon Valley businessman was sentenced Monday to two years in prison for helping broker the sale of a night vision camera to a research institute linked to the...
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Cambridge University’s Cavendish Laboratory’s physicist Neil Greenham has conceived of an organic solar cell that doesn’t use expensive silicon....
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A Japanese company named Clean Venture 21 (CV21) claims to curb the overall cost of producing solar cells by 50 percent. Isn’t that a remarkable step up for a...
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Cost has always been one of solar’s biggest problems. Traditional solar cells require silicon, and silicon is an expensive commodity and upto 70 percent of the...
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The most reliable renewable source of energy to power electronic gadgets as we have seen is the solar energy and fuel cells. Photovoltaic cells are commonly used...
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IBM has been, for long, a pioneer in technological advancement & gadgetry. Now they have come up with a unique eco-friendly way to solve the problem of Silicon...
made popular Oct 30 2007
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IBM Corp. says it has developed a greener method for recycling precious silicon that is wasted during computer chip manufacturing.For microprocessors and other computer...
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Solar panels have always been perceived to be flat and expensive. Proving this common notion wrong is a Japanese company Kyosemi Corporation, which has developed...
made popular Oct 15 2007
Intel has once again shown that silicon modulators can prove as worthy as their non-silicon and expensive counterparts. The company has successfully developed a new...
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