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New technological boom! Electricity can be generated from waste water.

Fri, 17/08/2012 - 13:53 by Minnie Mahendru

Brilliant Engineers from the Oregon State University have finally burst through in the microbial fuel cells performance that can lead to the generation of electricity using waste water directly. This can lead to a boom in the production of electricity in future as the waste treatment plants can actively help in selling electricity besides producing electricity for the waste plant.

Colossal solar twisters raise the sun’s temperature to exhorbitant degrees

Fri, 29/06/2012 - 11:51 by Minnie Mahendru

Enormous and gigantic 'solar twisters' that are nearly 1000 miles broad have been found to take the sun's atmosphere to very high temperatures, as high as millions of degrees centigrade. These magnetic tornadoes swirling around are found to heat the immediate layer above the sun to extremely high levels, channeling extreme temperatures from the sun on to the layer above it making it scorching hot. The heat is so high that it can lend enough power to make “clean” reactors on earth. The tornadoes that are seen on the Earth are thousands of times smaller, of lesser intensity than the solar tornadoes.

Shell to go ahead with floating LNG project

Sun, 22/05/2011 - 15:02 by Jamie Anderson

It will surely be extremely large, approximately the size of four football fields put together. That’s what Royal Dutch Shell intends to build, as it bets big time on liquefied natural gas (LNG) in Asia.

25 Historic Technology Predictions

Wed, 29/12/2010 - 11:52 by Wolffgang Gruener

It's the end of the year and you won't be able to escape a wave of technology predictions for next year. Most of them seem to fairly reasonable, but they aren't quite as aggressive and entertaining anymore as they were in the past. Here are our 25 favorite technology predictions that were not exactly true.

Why NuStar Energy's Earnings Aren't So Hot

Sat, 18/12/2010 - 09:49 by Seth Jayson

 Although business headlines still tout earnings numbers, many investors have moved past net earnings as a measure of a company's economic output. That's because earnings are very often less trustworthy than cash flow, since earnings are more open to manipulation based on dubious judgment calls.

 

Solar Costs Getting Harder to Cut

Wed, 15/12/2010 - 06:26 by Travis Hoium

 The fight for lower costs in solar is a never-ending battle. Those who can lower costs will survive; those who can't are headed to the scrap heap. So every quarter we watch to see where costs are trending and who is moving into a better position in the industry. Where do we stand right now?

 

Swedish region powered by organic waste

Sun, 12/12/2010 - 00:17 by Prince damin

Kristianstad, Sweden -- Powered by food waste, manure and cooking oil, a Swedish city has drastically cut its fossil fuel consumption.

Kristianstad and its surrounding county, with a population of 80,000, burn practically zero oil, natural gas or coal for heating, The New York Times reports. Twenty years ago, all its heat was derived from fossil fuels.

The agricultural region generates energy from ingredients such as potato peels, manure, used cooking oil, stale cookies and pig intestines. A plant outside Kristianstad uses a biological process to convert the refuse into biogas, a form of methane, which is then burned to produce heat and electricity, or is refined as a fuel for cars.

Crude oil prices head higher

Wed, 01/12/2010 - 23:27 by harsheeb

NewYork -- Crude oil prices followed equities higher Wednesday on the New York Mercantile Exchange, closing in on $86 per barrel.

After several jittery days, equities rose in Asia and Europe. Oil also found support from a shifting balance between the U.S. dollar and the euro, which traded at $1.3117 from Tuesday's $1.2981.

January delivery light, sweet crude oil added $1.64 to $85.75 per barrel.

Heating oil prices gained 4.8 cents to $2.3724 per gallon. Reformulated gasoline blendstock prices rose 6.74 cents to $2.2542 per gallon. Henry Hub natural gas prices rose 1.3 cents to $4.193 per million British thermal units.

Physicists say early universe like liquid

Thu, 25/11/2010 - 09:52 by Prince damin

Geneva, Switzerland -- European researchers at CERN's Large Hadron Collider say experiments show the very early universe was not only very hot and dense but behaved like a hot liquid.

By smashing lead nuclei together at high energies, they've generated incredibly hot and dense sub-atomic fireballs, recreating the conditions that existed in the first few microseconds after the Big Bang, ScienceDaily.com reported.

Scientists say temperatures of over 10 trillion degrees are being created in these mini big bangs.

At these temperatures, normal matter is expected to melt into an exotic, primordial 'soup' known as quark-gluon plasma.

And scientists say their results suggest "melt" is the right word.

IBM's Supercomputers Pass the Green Test

Tue, 23/11/2010 - 10:28 by Gabriel Perna

 A study from nonprofit Green500.org cites International Business Machines (NYSE: IBM) as having the most environmentally friendly supercomputers in the industry.

 

U.S. markets rise after sell-off

Thu, 18/11/2010 - 07:37 by Prince damin




Wall Street investors are also reacting to Tuesday's sell-off. The Dow Jones industrial average lost 178.47 points, or 1.59 percent Tuesday.
The Standard & Poor's 500 lost 19.41 points, or 1.62 percent.

In midmorning trading Wednesday, the DJIA added 9.96 points, 0.09 percent, to 11,033.46. The S&P 500 gained 4.57 points, or 0.39 percent, to 1,182.91. The Nasdaq composite index tacked on 13.80 points, or 0.56 percent, to 2,483.64.
The benchmark 10-year Treasury note rose 7/32 to yield 2.816 percent.

Except energy, inflation remains languid

Thu, 18/11/2010 - 07:12 by Prince damin

Washington -- Consumer prices climbed a shallow 0.2 percent in October, putting the annual rate of inflation at 1.2 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported.

Core consumer prices that exclude the more volatile categories of food and energy were unchanged for the third consecutive month, as the annual rate of core price inflation dropped from 0.8 percent to 0.6 percent, the government said.

The annual rate of inflation remains far below the U.S. Federal Reserve's target rate of 2 percent. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said a month ago that "inflation can be too low as well as too high."