Australia’s national science agency is collaborating with leading universities on an 8.3-million Australian dollar ($8.17 million) research collaboration to use enzymes to produce biofuels from waste plant feed stocks. The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization’s Energy Transformed Cluster on Biofuels seeks viable ways to transform waste plant materials into a sustainable low-emission fuel for cars, trucks and even planes.

Viện khoa học quốc gia Australia đang phối hợp cùng với các trường đại học hàng đầu trong một dự án nghiên cứu trị giá 8,3 triệu dolla Australia(178 tỷ VND) sử dụng enzim sản xuất nhiên liệu sinh học từ cây khô. Dự án nằm trong kế hoạch của Nhóm năng lượng chuyển đổi thuộc Tổ chức nghiên cứu Khoa học & Công nghiệp nhằm tìm kiếm cách thức hữu hiệu dùng cây khô sản xuất năng lượng bền vững cung cấp cho xe hơi, xe tải, thậm chí máy bay.

IDTechEx recently visited GS Caltex in Seoul, Korea, who have developed a solid state lithium thin film battery. The company is a joint venture between GS, Korea and Chevron, USA, and its core business is oil refinery where they are number two in Korea. The company also works on renewable energy including fuel cells, biofuels, materials for supercapacitors and thin film batteries.

Under the RCUK programme, Nanoscience through Engineering to Application, the EPSRC and the Technology Strategy Board (TSB) are investing in four industry-led collaborative research and development projects that will address challenges in building the supply chain and scaling up technologies.

Những chiếc lá nhân tạo sẽ hấp thụ năng lượng mặt trời để tạo ra một nguồn năng lượng giá rẻ có hiệu năng cao vừa được các nhà khoa học Viện công nghệ Massachusetts (Mỹ) chế tạo thành công.

Chi tiêu chính phủ để tái thiết đất nước và phục hồi ngành năng lượng đóng vai trò quyết định tới sự phục hồi nền kinh tế Nhât Bản. Nhận định trên được Quỹ tiền tệ quốc tế (IMF) đưa ra hôm thứ năm vừa rồi sau khi Nhật Bản thông báo thiệt hại do trận động đất hôm 11/3 lên tới 309 tỷ USD. Theo IMF, nền kinh tế Nhật sẽ chậm lại trong ngắn hạn, tuy nhiên tốc độ tăng trưởng sau đó sẽ phục hồi bằng, hay thậm chí cao hơn mức trước khi xảy ra động đất

The first new nuclear reactor ordered in the U.S. in roughly three decades is beginning to take shape near Augusta, Ga. Southern Company and its partners have dug 27.5 meters down to reach bedrock and are now refilling the hole to provide a stable, anchored foundation for what is likely to be the first of a new generation of reactors in the U.S.: two new AP1000 models at the Vogtle Electric Generating Plant that stand next to two older pressurized water reactors, which came online in the 1980s—the first of some 14 AP1000s and 20 new reactors in total that may be built in the U.S. in the next 15 years.

"It's great to see the intersection of three things that I love," Snyder told the audience that included hundreds of students. "We're talking about innovation and entrepreneurship, we're talking about clean energy, something that is vitally important for our future. It's about economic growth, and doing it in the most responsible way possible in terms of the legacy we leave and the opportunity it provides us and the third thing is it involves students”

Poland's government approved two bills creating a legal framework for the nuclear power industry and taking another step towards building the country's first nuclear plant, the government said in a statement on Tuesday. The bills, which now will be sent to parliament, create grounds for oversight of the investment process by National Atomic Energy Agency (PAA) as well as instruments for state-controlled PGE to choose technology supplier.

France's consumption rose by 7% – and in Europe only Denmark and Ireland used less energy per unit of GDP than UK.The EU energy commissioner, Günther Oettinger, is expected to recommend member states are set individual targets on efficiency improvements.The UK is one of the top performers in Europe on energy efficiency, according to a European commission report.

The Umeox Apollo is named after the Greek Sun God, and comes with a built-in solar panel covering the rear of the phone allowing the user to place a call when the batteries are discharged, provided there is sufficient sun available. Daily usage recharge needs about 2.5 hours of sunlight with a complete recharge requiring 17 hours.

CyberSmart Africa implements a practical and scalable solution to enlighten the frequently ignored rural schools with contemporary education. Funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), CyberSmart’s “tech-lite” approach, which includes a specially adapted interactive whiteboard and other low-power digital tools, puts learning first. The system uniquely focuses on teacher training and puts the latest low-power, portable equipment to work directly in the classrooms of off-the-grid rural schools.

The capital's nuclear programme is progressing well but must now begin to pay greater attention to areas surrounding nuclear fuel supply and disposal, and protection of facilities, said a review board set up by the emirate's Government.

Clearing up the regulatory hurdles that are slowing development of electricity transmission lines would provide a significant boost to U.S. wind power development, industry officials said Wednesday. The American Wind Energy Association is holding a two-day workshop in Omaha focused on the challenges of transmitting power to places that need it. The biggest regulatory barriers have to do with who pays for high-voltage transmission lines and who decides where the lines will go.

Until last year, wind power appeared immune to the worst ravages of an economic storm sweeping the globe. Then the world's biggest manufacturer of wind turbines took an axe to 3000 jobs in its native northern Europe. Did it signify not just a readjustment to a single producer's business model but a threat to the technology's continuing worldwide deployment? Or, as some believe, are fears of a decline in the sector's fortunes simply overblown?

Năm nay, Geoplasma dự định xây dựng một nhà máy với chi phí 120 triệu USD ở California (Mỹ). Rác thải từ các hộ gia đình địa phương cung cấp cho nhà máy sẽ tạo ra lượng syngas đủ để sản xuất điện phục vụ hơn 20.000 gia đình.

Các nhà khoa học thuộc đại học tổng hợp Cornell đang có hi vọng dùng một số loại vi khuẩn trong chất thải nhà máy bia để sản xuất xăng sinh học và các sản phẩm hữu ích khác. Largus T. Angenent, phó giao sư ngành kỹ thuật sinh học và môi trường, tác giả chính cùng trợ lý Jeffrey J. Werner gần đây đã đăng một bài viết về nghiên cứu của mình trên tạp chí Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Biên bản của Viện hàn lâm khoa học quốc gia).

Gaining new insight into how efficiently the microbes in large bioreactors produce methane from brewery waste, Cornell scientists hope to use their new knowledge to shape these microbial communities to produce liquid biofuels and other useful products.

The global market for LED light fixtures, which already stood at $3.8bn in 2010, is expected to grow to $8.3bn within the next three years, according to new research. The heightened awareness of energy efficiency together and global fiscal stimulus has created suitable conditions for the adoption of white light application of LED technology, which would otherwise have faced high costs.

Thus, from March 1st, the average price of electricity will increase from 1,077vnd/kWh to 1.242vnd/kWh, equivalent to a 15.28% increase. With this increase, many of EVN’s costs shall continue to be kept from being allocated to the price, the rate of return on state capital of EVN is zero and coal price has not risen in the electricity price structure.