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New Reactor Uses Sunlight to Turn Water and Carbon Dioxide Into Fuel
The Counter-Rotating-Ring Receiver Reactor Recuperator Sandia researcher Rich Diver tinkers with the CR5, a potential breakthrough for energy production and emissions reduction. Randy Montoya Talk...
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MIT Redesigns Natural Gas Power Plant For Near-Zero Carbon Emissions
With the conference in Copenhagen swiftly approaching, and the Senate analog to the Waxman-Markey "American Clean Energy and Security Act" struggling towards the floor, little doubt remains that fossil...
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Mobile Nuclear Reactors Could Provide Power and Jet Fuel for Military, DARPA...
Navy Aircraft Could nuclear-powered carriers use their reactors and seawater to provide jet fuel for their aircraft? U.S. Navy/Stephen Rowe Making U.S. Navy carrier groups and Army bases more...
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International Space Station Device Turns Hydrogen and Carbon Dioxide into Water
ISS Crew Clink Their Pouches NASA TV Space station residents could soon get a new choice for drinking water beyond urine, sweat, and vapor. A water generation system which can extract water from...
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Mimicking the Hydrophobic Water Fern Could Lead to Faster, More Efficient Ships
Global Shipping It's an energy suck, but new hydrophobic hulls could reduce friction – and fuel costs. If you're an ocean-transiting container ship, friction is a drag. The bigger your load, the more...
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Boeing's Corpulent Hydrogen-Powered Spy Plane Will Fly at 65,000 Feet For...
Phantom Eye Boeing's Phantom Eye hydrogen-powered aircraft. Boeing The future of spycraft looks pretty heavy, if this new Boeing plane is any indication. Adding to today's parade of pretty new planes,...
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Fill 'er Up: Canadian Company Wants to Build a Friendly Satellite Service...
MDA's Gas Station in the Sky These drawings of MDA's satellite-service station concept are based on Boeing's orbital express mission from 2007 on which MDA worked. MDA, Boeing Co. Space is like the...
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First Space Fueling Station To Launch in 2015, Servicing Geosynchronous...
Space Filling Station MDA When a satellite runs out of fuel, there are really only a couple options: Quietly become a piece of space junk, or fall back to Earth in a blaze of glory. But a new space...
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Are We Ignoring the Small but Brilliant Innovations That Could Bridge the...
Like Wildfire In a part of the world largely dependent on firewood and charcoal, a child at the school lights methane directly from the tank. Culhane says these moments are what best communicate the...
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How to Pump Half a Million Gallons of Fuel From a Listing Cruise Liner
The Costa Concordia Rvongher via WikimediaIt's been nearly a full month since the Costa Concordia ran aground just off the Tuscan island of Giglio, and after two weeks of delays salvage workers...
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Pumping Gas Into Commercial Airliners
Full Service Jets consume 320 million gallons of fuel every day, worldwide. Someone has to pump it. Benedict Redgrove At London's Heathrow, which moves more international passengers than any other...
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2013 Porsche Cayenne Diesel
800-Mile-a-Tank Diesel Courtesy Porsche Hybrids and plug-ins are ideal for saving gas around town. For long highway trips, however, a turbocharged diesel engine may be a more efficient approach, as...
View ArticlePacking Up A Solar-Powered Plane That Will Fly Across America [Video]
http://ak.c.ooyala.com/JkbGUxYjqo6uPm5OH5Ni9tcKiO8Z7J34/3Gduepif0T1UGY8H... Please enable Javascript to watch this video Planes usually eat up a lot of fuel, but one team is trying to make a long...
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How Do We Program Ourselves To Save Fuel?
The Fuel Economy Paul Lachine Last year, American car buyers named fuel economy the most important consideration when shopping for a car, outranking even quality and safety. The change coincides...
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The Rise Of Electric Car Charging Stations In The U.S. [Infographic]
Electric Charging Stations Source: Alternative Fuels Data Center, U.S. Department of Energy Katie Peek More than half of the nation's 8,051 electric-vehicle charging stations have opened since 2012....
View ArticleFill 'er Up: Canadian Company Wants to Build a Friendly Satellite Service...
Space is like the Mojave Desert; once you get out there past a certain point, there's really nowhere convenient to pull over, stretch your legs, buy a Red Bull, and top up the gas tank. But Canadian...
View ArticleFirst Space Fueling Station To Launch in 2015, Servicing Geosynchronous...
When a satellite runs out of fuel, there are really only a couple options: Quietly become a piece of space junk, or fall back to Earth in a blaze of glory. But a new space gas station will fill ‘em...
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From the backseat of a beat-up Toyota taxi, Thomas Taha Rassam Culhane points out the passing sights. Fraying sacks of charcoal cut from nearby forests wait beside makeshift shops. Corrugated metal,...
View ArticleThe Last Drops: How to Bridge the Gap Between Oil and Green Energy
For all our talk of an online future unbounded by physical limits, life in our increasingly global economy still requires the movement of actual people and things, often over…
View ArticleHow to Pump Half a Million Gallons of Fuel From a Listing Cruise Liner
It’s been nearly a full month since the Costa Concordia ran aground just off the Tuscan island of Giglio, and after two weeks of delays salvage workers yesterday began pumping operations aimed at...
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