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Shell Unveils Ultra-Energy-Efficient City Car Concept
Built around Gordon Murray Design’s iStream platform, the Shell Concept Car incorporates lightweight materials—the car weighs just 550kg—with a low CO2 footprint and embodied energy.
Appliance Systems May Benefit from Low-V Motors
Moving subsystems to low voltage isolates them from the high-voltage input, making them safer for maintenance personnel and designers.
Pumping in Parallel Is Not Always Simple
Inadequate flow rate often plagues two-pump systems, particularly in plants that are more than 10 years old.
Nanowire-Based Battery Can Be Recharged Over 200,000 Times
UCI doctoral candidate Mya Le Thai cycled the testing electrode up to 200,000 times over three months without detecting any loss of capacity or power and without fracturing any nanowires.
Selecting the Right Vacuum Pump for the Job
Laboratory managers specifying vacuum pumps have much to consider when evaluating the four basic types of pumps.
3D-Printed Clothes: Custom Garments, No Waste
This technology not only has the potential to reduce waste, labor costs and CO2 equivalent, but can modernize clothing production by encouraging localized manufacturing and production.
A Flush Plan May Help Optimize Seal Life
Circulating fluid to or from the seal chamber will maintain proper lubrication, pressure, temperature and solids management.
Test Driving: Insufficient to Demonstrate Autonomous Vehicles' Safety
Under even the most aggressive test-driving assumptions, it would take existing fleets hundreds of years to log sufficient miles to adequately assess the safety of autonomous vehicles.
San Francisco to Require Solar Panels on Smaller New Buildings
The new ordinance builds on state law by requiring the 15% of roof area that is already required to be “solar ready” to have either solar photovoltaic or solar water panels actually installed.
Robot Falcon Chases Birds Away from Airports
Bird control at airports worldwide costs billions of dollars, the result of defacement of property by bird droppings and damage to aircraft equipment arising from bird strikes.
First Transistors Made Entirely of Nanocrystal "Inks" Developed
This is the first work showing that the metallic, insulating and semiconducting layers of the transistors, as well as the doping of the semiconductor, can be made from nanocrystals.
An Energy Storage Project Gains Traction
Pumped hydro but without the water is the essence of an energy storage project that has moved one step closer to being built.
Business Information Software for Industry
Information can be presented to track progress, plan business responses and provide concise reports on key variables and path-forward directions.
Looking Outside the Profession for Innovation
Innovation is a critical concept that relies on equal measures of individual initiative and group creativity.
Japanese Team Claims a Li-on Battery Breakthrough
The researchers say they have created two lithium-based crystalline superionic materials that can act as solid electrolytes.
Gravity Provides Grid-scale Storage
A gravity-based commercial-scale rail energy storage project is planned in Nevada.
Multi-rotor Wind Turbine Undergoing Tests
The economics and output of wind energy systems may improve with a multi-rotor turbine design.
Detecting Indoor Pollutants at the ppb Level
Indoor air pollutants can now be detected at the ppb level.
Multifunctional Material Mops Up Spilled Oil
A semi-conductive fabric mops up crude oil from fresh and salt water.
"White Graphene" Helps Rechargeable Batteries Withstand Extreme Heat
Oil and gas companies, in particular, require robust batteries to power sensors on drill bits that experience extreme temperatures in downhole environments.