A team of researchers from the US and France report the development of micro-supercapacitors with powers per volume that are comparable to electrolytic capacitors,...
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Oil claims process to be 'generous'
Kenneth Feinberg, the man tasked with personally administering $20 billion escrow account told reporters he plans to be more generous than the courts would be.
You gotta get that dirt off your solar panels
The problem: solar panels in dusty areas get dusty and lose capacity. The solution: self-cleaning solar panels.
Cheetos bags, diapers remade into trash cans
How green is your trash can? Recycling firm TerraCycle has created plastic garbage cans out of chip bags. The process reportedly produces about 40 percent less CO2 emis
Inuit villages sue to stop seismic tests for oil, gas
Above the Arctic Circle in Canada near Greenland, five Inuit villages have won a court order that blocks a German icebreaker from conducting seismic tests of an underwater...
Species extinctions happening before our eyes
In the past, research has predicted that global warming could lead to the extinction of more than one-fifth of animal and plant species. This research has largely been...
Gov't: 23K workers affected by Gulf oil drill ban
A six-month ban on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico would directly put more than 9,000 people out of work and indirectly affect another 14,000 jobs, according to a...
Interior: Drilling freeze is ‘necessary and appropriate’ due to risks
The Interior Department on Saturday defended its controversial six-month ban on deepwater oil-and-gas drilling following revelations that the agency estimated it would...
24 Years After Chernobyl, Radioactive Boars Still Roam Germany
A quarter-century after the catastrophe, Chernobyl can't stay out of the news.When fires broke out in Russia this month, people worried that the flames would spread...
The Deepwater Horizon Spill by the Numbers
665 miles of coastline contaminated by oil. 4.9 million barrels of oil leaked. 19 times more oil spilled than from the Exxon Valdez in 1989.
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