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by Ajeet Khurana on August 21, 2007
MIT researchers have developed a new concept they are calling "WiTricity" which is essentially wireless electricity. The concept is that electricity will be transmitted as a magnetic field...
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by Ajeet Khurana on August 07, 2007
The New Scientist has been discussing some patents on the way for both Nokia and Motorola in the way of solar powered cell phones. I'm not sure about this one. Other companies have tried and...
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I just love how even the simplest things like batteries are changing to make our lives easier. Now this is technology that makes sense. Plug the battery into your USB port to recharge. For $19 a pair...
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by Eric Roston on March 21, 2007
With Al Gore on Capitol Hill schooling U.S. Representatives on the basics of the climate system, and a week after MIT issued its Future of Coal" report, I thought I would post this little bit of...
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by Eric Roston on January 18, 2007
"In the time of Henry Luce, information wasn't dispersed as quickly. Now, everyone has turned into a news reporter," said Harold Vogel, president of Vogel Capital Management in New York....
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by Eric Roston on October 07, 2006
Hearing a talk this morning about transforming coal into gasoline and other important products sent Philoneist back through time, to the New York Times of Sept. 12, 1948, when that technology had...
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by Eric Roston on October 05, 2006
A Nascar fuel specialist claims he has invented a way to make high-end gasoline from animal waste. Dean Gokel says he can produce 110 octane "pigoline"--gasoline made from hog waste--that is...
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by Eric Roston on September 22, 2006
"Not enough silicon" is an odd complaint to hear from solar-panel manufacturers, given the abundance of that element in a familiar granular substance called sand. But there you have it....
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by Eric Roston on September 14, 2006
The steady stream (no pun intended) of research on global warming the last two weeks is distracting this trend-watcher. Yesterday, Nasa scientists revealed that, in the last two years, Arctic sea ice...
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by Eric Roston on September 06, 2006
Today's atmospheric carbon-dioxide levels are higher than at any time in the past 800,000 years, about twice the previously confirmed time frame. Eric Wolff, of the British Antarctic Survey, led a...
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by Scott on August 20, 2006
a Dublin-based scientist, Sean McCarthy, is claiming to have stumbled upon a "free energy" source in his research, according to an article in the Observer today. But, instead of rushing to...
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by Scott on August 13, 2006
In 20 years will we be fighting not oil or water wars, but conflicts for control of canola? According to an analysis by Dutch investment bank Rabobank, brought to us by the great people at Green Car...
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