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Bacterium eats electricity, farts biogas - tech - 05 April 2009 - New ScientistBacteria that can convert electricity into methane could help solve one of the biggest problems with renewable energy – its unreliability compared to the steady output of polluting fossil-fuel power stations. Wind power is capricious, while solar cell output drops off at night or on cloudy ...
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Microgrids as peer-to-peer energy( BBC News | Science/Nature) Small networks of power generators in "microgrids" could transform the electricity network in the way that the net changed distributed communication. That is one of the conclusions of a Southampton University project scoping out the feasibility of microgrids for ...
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Gas tank of the future takes a step closer - tech - 19 February 2009 - New ScientistChemists have taken us a little further along the road to a hydrogen economy with a fuel-tank material that might one day replace the automobile petrol tank. Researchers at the University of Nottingham in the UK and General Motors in Warren, Michigan, have come up with a sponge-like material ...
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Researchers convert graphene into its hydrogenated equivalent graphaneAn international research team have successfully converted graphene - sheets of carbon just a single layer of atoms thick - into its hydrogenated equivalent, graphane. The scientists, from the UK, Russia, and the Netherlands, say that graphane's electronic insulating properties complement ...
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Ground breaking 'Dry water' method developed to store natural gas in a powderHave you ever held natural gas in your hand? “It ('dry water') looks like a powder, but if you wipe it on your skin, it smears and feels cold” says Andrew Cooper University of Liverpool, UK
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A carbon-neutral way to power your homeA super-efficient system that has the potential to power, heat and cool homes across the UK is being developed at Newcastle University.
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The Energy Roadmap - 'Green Oil' by 2020? UK invests in algae biodieselAnother confirmation of microbe based hydrocarbon production
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