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Rare Earth Elements: The World is Rapidly Running Out and China Has Most of The Remaining Supply

By Guest PostAugust 2, 2010Economy, Politicscalifornia, cerium, China, chinese economy, europium, green economy, hybrid car batteries, iphones, ipod, lanthanum, missile-guidance systems, mountain pass, neodymium, radar systems, rare earth elements, tantalum, us military, usgs, w david menzie

Most people have no idea what rare earth elements are, but a wide array of the technologies that we use every single day are dependent on them.

Without rare earth elements, we would have no hybrid car batteries, flat screen televisions, cell phones or iPods. Without rare earth elements, the entire “green economy” would not be able to function, because almost all emerging green technologies use them.

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Berkeley Lab Part of California Team to Receive up to $122 million for Energy Innovation Hub to Develop Method to Produce Fuels from Sunlight

By Guest PostJuly 24, 20101 commentEnvironment, Scienceartificial, berkeley lab, breakthrough innovations, cal tech, california, carbon dioxide, daniel poneman, energy, fuels, george l. argyros, innovation hub, jcap, joint center for artificial photosynthesis, nathan s. lewis, paul alivisatos, peidong yang, photosynthesis, senator boxer, sunlight, sunlight energy

Washington, D.C. – As part of a broad effort to achieve breakthrough innovations in energy production, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy Daniel Poneman announced, on July 22, an award of up to $122 million over five years to a multidisciplinary team of top scientists to establish an Energy Innovation Hub aimed at developing revolutionary methods to generate fuels directly from sunlight.

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Microsoft and NASA Bring Mars Down to Earth Through the WorldWide Telescope

By Guest PostJuly 13, 20102 commentsScience, Technologyames research center, Baltimore, california, california institute of technology, earth, energy, Environment, fay, high resolution imaging science experiment, hirise, hubble, intelligent robotics group, irg, mars, mars orbiter laser altimeter, martian surface, michael broxton, Microsoft, mola, NASA, nebula, pasadena, red planet, san josé, WorldWide Telescope

*Dramatic imagery from NASA Mars missions creates new user experiences in the Microsoft Research WorldWide Telescope.*

REDMOND, Wash. — Microsoft Research and NASA are providing an entirely new experience to users of the WorldWide Telescope, which will allow visitors to interact with and explore our solar system like never before.

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