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Mount Everest: A Sky-high Garbage Dump?
Often topping the bucket list of many an adventurer is a climb of the notorious Mount Everest. Yet the experience is marred by the increasing number of people who make the trek and leave behind mementos of their journey: garbage.
New Building Material Made from Rice, Glass and Fungus
Scientists from Australia have created a low-carbon, fire-resistant building material by combining agricultural and industrial waste and binding it with Trametes versicolor, which is a fungus.
How to Select the Right Thermal Coating
Thermal coating, also known as thermal spray coating, is used to treat surfaces and enhance surface characteristics. In essence, it is an engineered coating designed to address specific applications with an emphasis either on specific corrosive species, performance characteristics or specific operating environments. While thermal spray coatings are known as a superior surface treatment, there are numerous types and application methods. The bigger question isn’t if a thermal coating is the best option but what is the best thermal coating for a given application.
Daimler Converts Coal-fired Power Station into Battery Storage Facility
The plant is the third such power station powered by second life electric vehicle batteries to be connected to the grid.
Top 5 Reasons to Use a Crest-to-Crest® Wave Spring
Wave springs are superior to coil springs in certain applications because they operate at lower work heights while providing the same force.
DOE Report Addresses Fixes to Puerto Rico's Electric Grid
The report says that the U.S. territory’s energy infrastructure must be designed, built, managed and maintained to withstand environmental and man-made disasters, recover quickly from events and incorporate lessons learned in the wake of Hurricane Maria.
Watch: Stretching the Limits with an Electrically Conductive Hydrogel
A metal carbide-hydrogel composite senses, stretches and heals like human skin for use in medicine and robotics.
Solar-thermal Water Desal Projects Win DOE Money
The projects will focus on reducing the cost of solar-thermal desalination and helping the technology reach areas that are not connected to the electric grid.
A New Material for Splitting Water and Storing Solar Energy
Halide double perovskites are deemed promising photocatalytic materials since they absorb visible light better than titanium dioxide.
Volvo Opens U.S. Auto Production Facility
The plant can produce 150,000 cars a year at full capacity for the U.S. market as well as for export.
U.S. Could Lead World Oil Production by Early 2019
A new report says that U.S. natural gas production could grow by 60 percent over the next 20 years, and the country could take over as the world's largest oil producer by early 2019.
Facebook Experimenting with 'Eye Opening' Technology
Using a machine learning system, the Facebook researchers can fix an image by replacing the closed eyes in the image with open eyes.
Researchers Develop AI Capable of Predicting Debate Winners
Looking at the data, the algorithm determined that debates where “we” and “they” were used more often were more successful than when “you” and “I” appeared in an argument.
Birds vs. Drones: Engineering and Nature Collide
Aside from the occasional accident, birds have not really felt threatened, or been a threat to our airborne technology. With drones, all of that is changing.
Blubber-Inspired Wetsuit Coating Allows Divers to Last in Frigid Water for Two to Three Hours
MIT researchers have developed a new wetsuit for rescue teams and Navy SEALs.
Nuclear Energy Plants Likely to Remain Challenged, Penn State Researcher Says
Low power prices are expected to continue for years to come because energy use has leveled off and efficient, natural gas-fired power plants have recently come online.
Environmentally-friendly Explosive Being Developed by Los Alamos National Laboratory and U.S. Army
Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory and the U.S. Army Research Laboratory in Aberdeen, Maryland, have found a less toxic explosive material as a potential replacement for TNT (trinitrotoluene) in various munitions.
New York 'Ices Out' its Rats
New Yorkers have been waging a war on rats since the middle of the 18th century using as its weapon rodenticide. However, officials have added a new, more effective weapon to their arsenal: dry ice.
Poor Safety Culture Led to Ferry Fire That Hurt 45
The fire began in the main engine room when fuel spraying from a leaking flange contacted the hot surface of the port main engine. The ship burned for three days near Puerto Rico.
Vestas Books Wind Turbine Orders
The wind turbine maker will provide a total of 630 MW of generating capacity for projects in Colorado and Australia.