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IBM Joins European Consortium to Build a Smart Grid Using Renewable Energy

By Guest PostOctober 13, 2011Environment, Technologybiogas, bornholm, danish energy agency, danish island, denmark, eco conscious danes, ecogrid eu project, edison, electric vehicles in a distributed and integrated market, energy grid, european commission, european union-funded consortium, guido bartels, ibm, lykke friis, minister for climate and energy, renewable energy sources, smart energy grid, solar energy, wind power

Armonk, NY and Copenhagen, Denmark & COPENHAGEN, Denmark – 13 Oct 2011: IBM today announced it has joined a collaborative consortium to help develop an energy grid that uses at least 50 percent of renewable energy sources, such as wind power, solar energy and biogas. Led by a European Union-funded consortium, the EcoGrid EU project will demonstrate a smart energy grid that will allow smart devices to use renewable electricity based on near real-time pricing and availability.

The EcoGrid EU project will be piloted on the Danish island of Bornholm with 2,000 residents and commercial users, representing approximately every tenth house on the island. Using smart meters and a Web-based app, that runs on smartphones, tablets and PCs, consumers can schedule when to purchase electricity online and at what price. Project scientists believe that by making this data easily available, eco-conscious Danes will choose to purchase renewable energy over fossil fuels, which will result in cost savings. The portal will also enable utilities to manage pricing based on supply, demand and available storage capacity. Selected participants will begin the testing phase towards the end of next year. (more…)

Innovation Served on a Napkin: How GTRI Moved a Simple Idea From Inspiration to Fabrication

By Guest PostSeptember 3, 2011Science3 d cell, adrenaline, air-conditioning, bloo solar of west sacramento, boeing, boston in 2003, dna replicating process, georgia, georgia tech research institute, gtri, horizon, ip2biz, jack flicker, jud ready, kevlar, larry bawden, micro scale manhattan, microelectronics, nanotechnologies, napkin, octagonal, pcr, polymerase chain reaction, powerpoint presentation, prototypes, solar energy, xcor, yellow jacket flying club

A ground-breaking innovation, birthed in a sudden flash of insight, is the stuff of legend. Air conditioning, Kevlar, the DNA-replicating process known as PCR (polymerase chain reaction) — each was the product of a Eureka! moment. The list may soon be longer by one, thanks to a wandering mind and a napkin.

When Jud Ready attended an academic conference on materials science in Boston in 2003, he didn’t plan on coming home with the idea for a three-dimensional solar cell, but that’s what happened. (more…)

Made in IBM Labs: Researchers Unveil Nanotechnology Circuits for Wireless Devices

By Guest PostJune 10, 2011Technology10 gigahertz, binnig and rohrer nanotechnology center, bio analytics, broadband frequency, building block, carbon electronics for rf applications, cell phone, cera, chemical vapor deposited grapheme, cvd, cvd grapheme, energy technology, eth zurich, fabrication of graphene circuits, grapheme based analog integrated circuit, graphene, honeycomb structure, ibm research, integrated circuit, nanoscale research, Nanotechnology, novel material, radiation, sic, silicon carbide wafer, single layer of carbon atoms, smart phones, solar energy, t c chen, thinnest electronic material, wafer size grapheme, water purification, wireless communications, wireless devices, x-rays

*Scientists Build the First Wafer-Scale Graphene Integrated Circuit Smaller than a Pinhead*

Yorktown Heights, NY – 10 Jun 2011: Today, IBM Research scientists announced that they have achieved a milestone in creating a building block for the future of wireless devices. In a paper published yesterday in the magazine Science, IBM researchers announced the first integrated circuit fabricated from wafer-size graphene, and demonstrated a broadband frequency mixer operating at frequencies up to 10 gigahertz (10 billion cycles/second).

Designed for wireless communications, this graphene-based analog integrated circuit could improve today’s wireless devices and points to the potential for a new set of appli-cations. At today’s conventional frequencies, cell phone and transceiver signals could be improved, potentially allowing phones to work where they can’t today while, at much higher frequencies, military and medical personnel could see concealed weapons or conduct medical imaging without the same radiation dangers of X-rays. (more…)

Broken Glass Yields Clues to Climate Change

By Guest PostDecember 31, 2010Environmentatmosphere, brittle objects, carbon dioxide, clay particles, climate, climate models, clouds, drinking glass, dust, dust particles, future climate, human hair, jasper kok, marine ecosystems, microscopic particles, northern africa, precipitation, sarah ruth, solar energy, Space, temperature, to model, united states, weather forecasting

*Ordinary drinking glasses and atmospheric dust particles break apart in similar patterns*

Clues to future climate may be found in the way an ordinary drinking glass shatters.

Results of a study published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences find that microscopic particles of dust can break apart in patterns that are similar to the fragment patterns of broken glass and other brittle objects. (more…)

Volcanic Eruptions Affect Rainfall over Asian Monsoon Region

By Guest PostNovember 7, 2010Environment, Natureaffect, asian monsoon, climate, climate models, dinosaurs, el chichón, huaynaputina, indonesia, kevin anchukaitis, krakatau, mount pinatubo, neanderthals, particles, peru, Philippines, pinatubo, rainfall, solar energy, solar radiation, tambora eruption, tree ring lab, volcanic explosions, volcanoes, weather

Scientists have long known that large volcanic explosions can affect the weather by spewing particles that block solar energy and cool the air.

Some suspect that extended “volcanic winters” from gigantic eruptions helped kill off dinosaurs and Neanderthals.

In the summer following Indonesia’s 1815 Tambora eruption, frost wrecked crops as far away as New England, and the 1991 blowout of the Philippines’ Mount Pinatubo lowered average global temperatures by 0.7 degrees F — enough to mask the effects of greenhouse gases for a year or so. (more…)

Soot From Space Tourism Rockets Could Spur Climate Change

By Guest PostOctober 24, 2010Environmentaerospace corporation, carbon dioxide emissions, climate impact, complex global pattern, darin toohey, global climate change, michael mills, NASA, solar energy, space tourism rockets, stratospheric layer, university of colorado

WASHINGTON—Rocket exhaust could become a significant contributor to global climate change in coming decades, according to a new study. The research finds that soot emitted by rockets — not their carbon dioxide emissions — has the greater potential to contribute to global climate change in coming decades. (more…)

Listen up! U-M Experiment Records Ultrafast Chemical Reaction with Vibrational Echoes

By Guest PostSeptember 1, 20101 commentScienceartificial, carlos baiz, cellular respiration, charge transfer reactions, chemical reaction, chemical transformations, conversion, femtoseconds, kevin kubarych, magician, natural, solar energy, solvent shell, university of michigan, vibrational frequencies

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — To watch a magician transform a vase of flowers into a rabbit, it’s best to have a front-row seat. Likewise, for chemical transformations in solution, the best view belongs to the molecular spectators closest to the action.

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Solar energy – new tech, low cost

By ShamsJuly 13, 2008ScienceMarc Baldo, MIT, Seville, solar energy, Solar tower in Spain

The idea is simple. Sunrays will hit the painted glass, the dyes will capture (absorb) the rays and will bounce it out to the edges of the glass where the tiny solar cells await the supply. And the house or factory owners are happy as they will not bear any bad name as carbon dioxide emitters. 🙂

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