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Researchers Moving Closer to Creating Viable Energy From Sewage

October 08, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 39 vote(s) | User comments: 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- When a newly developed technology for producing hydrogen gas from biowaste is brought to commercial use – as researchers believe it can be – then it appears the world will have plenty of energy if it can ...


ZPower claims its silver-zinc batteries last 40% longer than lithium-ion

October 08, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 29 vote(s) | User comments: 5

A company called ZPower has designed batteries with silver- and zinc-based electrodes that it says will offer up to 40% more computer time per charge than today´s lithium-ion batteries. Consumers won´t have ...


Atlanta firm to develop Ohio University algae bioreactor

October 08, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 13 vote(s) | User comments: 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Atlanta firm Green Bios Technologies has licensed a new type of algae bioreactor from Ohio University developed by internationally renowned engineering professor David Bayless. The company ...


Hydrogen + corncobs (with a splash of boron) = fuel of the future?

October 09, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 9 vote(s) | No comments yet

(PhysOrg.com) -- The next alternative fuel in a vehicle's tank might be nothing more than gas with a little help from corn. However, instead of the usual petroleum-based fuel, this gas will be hydrogen, and the corn will ...