http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Clean-Energy/New-Technology/Earth_Clean-Energy_New-Technology_18_151_814.html Press Review of the Earth from the most relevant websites. Keep in touch with the Earth and your future ! fr-FR http://www.earth-stream.com/logo-stream-Earth.png http://www.earth-stream.com Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:41:53 GMT http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Clean-Energy/New-Technology/Clean-and-Efficient-Use-of-Coal-ELCOGAS_18_151_814_134898.html ELCOGAS has built a coal plant in Spain that reduces CO 2 emissions by an average of 20% and other emissions by 50-80% compared to traditional coal plants. The plant, operational within the Spanish electricity market, competes with other electricity companies and demonstrates the technical, economic and commercial feasibility of the technology for coal-based electric power production under cleaner and more efficient conditions than other traditional technologies could offer. Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:50:12 GMT http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Clean-Energy/New-Technology/Future-cars-could-sport-carbon-sponge-gas-tanks_18_151_814_134887.html The battle to squeeze the most gas safely into hydrogen vehicles continues, but will "nanosponges" or ants' poison win out? Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:55:01 GMT http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Clean-Energy/New-Technology/LIGHTEN-UP-lighting-solutions-by-re-design-Part-2-_18_151_814_134879.html LIGHTEN UP, the lighting exhibition for this years 100%Design show in London by eco design group [re]design, looks beyond the bulb to explore an array of sustainable lighting strategies – including energy-efficient technology and design, sustainably sourced and recycled materials, lifecycle thinking and product-user relationships. We featured [re]design’s [re]use examples like the Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:31:04 GMT http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Clean-Energy/New-Technology/Innovative-Silicon-Z-RAM-Memory-Experts-to-Present-at-2008-IEEE-International-SOI-Conference_18_151_814_134873.html Innovative Silicon, Inc. (ISi), developer of the Z-RAM(R) zero-capacitor floating body memory technology, today announced that Dr. Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:01:02 GMT http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Clean-Energy/New-Technology/Americans-given-tax-breaks-on-water-saving-tech_18_151_814_134862.html A scheme which already offers tax breaks to ordinary Americans when they buy energy efficient goods has been rolled out to cover water-saving technology too. Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:14:05 GMT http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Clean-Energy/New-Technology/First-Samples-of-Algae-Based-Green-Crude-Have-Arrived_18_151_814_134840.html New Zealand-based Aquaflow Bionomic Corporation has been working on technology to convert wild algae to next generation fuels and has recently produced the first samples of green-crude from a proprietary process that does not rely on genetically modified organisms. As we have covered previously on this site, algae based fuels are a promising second generation bio-fuel that may offer energy independence and a decreased reliance on fossil fuels without the negative consequences of agrofuels like ethanol that take up farm land adding to the current food crisis, are energetically inefficient and hog scarce water resources. Green-crude differs significantly from first ... Fri, 03 Oct 2008 06:24:25 GMT http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Clean-Energy/New-Technology/Photographer-Awarded-TED-Prize-for-Work-on-War-Disease_18_151_814_134807.html : Photo: James NachtweyLast year, acclaimed war photographer James Nachtwey was honored with the 2007 Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) Prize for his work documenting images of war, disease and political unrest across the globe for over 25 years. Along with President Bill Clinton and Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson, Nachtwey was awarded $100,000 to help him bring "one wish to change the world" to fruition. James' wish was to share an underreported worldwide story, prove the power of news photography in the digital age and raise awareness about a global health issue that has the potential to become a worldwide pandemic — Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (XDR TB). Tonight Nachtwey will unveil the images of the disease he hopes to combat at a special screening at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City. His poignant images will be used to offer awareness about the worldwide spread of tuberculosis through a multimedia campaign on all seven continents, in 50 cities around the globe, and across the web. You can find out more information about screenings and the images at http://www.xdrtv.org. Nachtwey shared his digital images with us and took a few moments to tell Wired.com what he learned during the yearlong process of tracking the global spread of tuberculosis. : Photo: James Nachtwey Wired.com: When did you first encounter XDR-TB? James Nachtwey: In 2000, I did a story for Time on AIDS in Africa. It was my first introduction to that subject. In South Africa and Zimbabwe, people who had AIDS were co-infected with TB. And it was actually TB that killed them. I had thought TB was eliminated. : Photo: James Nachtwey Wired.com: Why is TB still such a problem? Nachtwey: The conditions of poverty are a breeding ground for TB. If your immune system becomes lowered, TB is like a predator. It remains latent until the immune system is depressed. And it attacks the weak. Even if the medication exists in certain places, people have to get to the medicat ... Fri, 03 Oct 2008 05:34:24 GMT http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Clean-Energy/New-Technology/Electric-Cars-and-Energy-Independence-Part-I_18_151_814_134805.html Will electric cars and tougher fuel economy standards put America on the super-fast track to oil independence? Not necessarily, says MIT in its recent report, On the Road in 2035 (pdf): Transitioning from our current situation onto a path with declining fuel consumption and emissions, even in the developed world, will take several decades -- much longer than we hope or realize. The delay, says researchers, is not for lack of technology but for the time involved -- the time to make a radical new technology ready for mass market, the time for such advances to become pervasive and the long wait for old cars hit the scrap heap. In fact, even with aggressive market penetration rates of new technologies, it will be difficult to reduce the 2035 fleet fuel use by more than 10 percent below fuel use in 2000. So, as strategies and policies abound for a more fuel-efficient US fleet, it’s time to assess their worth. Here are three of the latest: read more Fri, 03 Oct 2008 01:20:23 GMT http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Clean-Energy/New-Technology/AT&T-Helps-Belmont-University-Get-Tech-Ready-for-the-Upcoming-2008-Town-Hall-Presidential-Debate_18_151_814_134756.html NASHVILLE, Tenn., Oct. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AT&T Inc. announced today that new communications technology systems have been deployed for the 2008 Town Hall Presidential Debate, to be held at Belmont University on Tuesday, October 7. Fri, 03 Oct 2008 01:20:23 GMT http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Clean-Energy/New-Technology/Event-Reminder-Finisar-to-Host-Analyst-Event-in-NYC-on-October-7th_18_151_814_134754.html Finisar Corporation (NASDAQ: FNSR), a global technology leader in fiber optic solutions for high-speed networks, will be holding an Analyst Event for the investment community on Tuesday, October 7th. Fri, 03 Oct 2008 01:20:20 GMT http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Clean-Energy/New-Technology/Flexible-Display-Technology-Gaining-Ground_18_151_814_134742.html Rigid television screens, bulky laptops and still image posters are to be a thing of the past as new research, published today, Thursday, 2 October, in the New Journal of Physics, heralds the beginning of a technological revolution for screen displays.Screen display technology is taking a significant step forward as researchers from Sony and the Max Planck Institute demonstrate the possibility of bendable optically assessed organic light emitting displays for the first time, based on red or IR-A light upconversion.The paper, 'Annihilation Assisted Upconversion: All-Organic, Flexible and Transparent Multicolor Display', makes feasible the design of computers that can be folded up and put in your pocket, the mass-production of moving image posters for display advertising, televisions which can be bended to view or, even, newspaper display technology which allows readers to upload daily news to an easy-to-carry display contraption.All organic, upconversion multicolor displays have significant advantages when compared to the traditional technology used for projection displays and televisions. Fri, 03 Oct 2008 01:20:15 GMT http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Clean-Energy/New-Technology/ARCADIS-Engineer-Co-Authors-Book-Exploring-Nanotechnology-and-Its-Potential-Risks-to-Health-and-the-Environment_18_151_814_134729.html ARCADIS (EURONEXT: ARCAD), an international environmental and engineering services consulting firm, announced today Kate Sellers, P.E., a principal environmental engineer in the Lowell, MA office, edited and co-authored the new publication Nanotechnology and the Environment, published by CRC Press. Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:37:35 GMT http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Clean-Energy/New-Technology/How-the-Telescope-Changed-Our-Minds_18_151_814_134703.html The telescope changed everything about how we see our place in the universe. But it took a leap of faith to accept the views of telescopes as real, just as it takes a leap to trust images produced by modern technology such as the microscope, the MRI and supercolliders. Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:12:54 GMT http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Clean-Energy/New-Technology/National-Press-Club-to-Host-NEWSMAKER-Media-Briefing-on-Participatory-Democracy-and-the-Internet_18_151_814_134693.html To: TECHNOLOGY EDITORS Contact: Mark Schoeff Jr., National Press Club Newsmakers Committee, +1-202-662-7218, mschoeff@workforce.com; National Press Club, +1-202-662-7540 Friday, October 3, 2008, 2 p.m. National Press Club (Lisagor Room) WASHINGTON, Oct. Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:12:54 GMT http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Clean-Energy/New-Technology/Research-and-Markets-New-Report-Examines-How-to-Make-Wi-Fi-a-Valued-Swiss-Army-Knife-Technology-for-the-CE_18_151_814_134689.html Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/746350/wifi_in_consumer) has announced the addition of the "Wi-Fi in Consumer Electronics: The Swiss Army Knife Technology" report to their offering. Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:12:52 GMT http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Clean-Energy/New-Technology/SeniorChecked-SM-Tackles-Crimes-Against-Seniors-With-New-Technology_18_151_814_134681.html Providing an independent and unbiased third party review of companies and employees who serve senior citizens in their homes, SeniorChecked has been released by Silver Nation, LLC in the Washington, DC market to combat the rise in elder abuse, financial exploitation and crimes against seniors. Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:12:50 GMT http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Clean-Energy/New-Technology/Riverbed-Technology-to-Announce-Third-Quarter-Fiscal-Year-2008-Financial-Results_18_151_814_134675.html Riverbed Technology Kristalle Ward, 415-247-8140 (Media) kristalle.ward@riverbed.com Renee Lyall, 415-247-6353 (Investor Relations) rlyall@riverbed.com Riverbed Technology (Nasdaq:RVBD), the technology and market leader in wide-area data services (WDS), today announced the company will release third quarter fiscal year 2008 financial results after the close of the market on Thursday, October 23, 2008. Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:44:23 GMT http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Clean-Energy/New-Technology/Fiber-Composites-Materials-Of-Green-Energy-Production_18_151_814_134666.html The trade publication Plastics Technology Online has an excellent technical article on the manufacturing of wind turbine blades. Awesome reading if you are a wind-industry insider. Or, if you have a degree in chemistry or chemical engineering. The scale of making turbine blades from fiberglass and carbon fiber is amazing, physically and financially. An industry expert interviewed for article stated that he "expects the global wind energy market for composites to be worth about $6 billion by 2012." The manufacturing process has similarities to the manufacture of kayaks, truck fairings,... Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:22:02 GMT http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Clean-Energy/New-Technology/Scientist-Discover-Structures-Of-Important-Plant-Viruses_18_151_814_134639.html Findings may lead to new ways to protect crops and make other useful productsFlexible filamentous viruses make up a large fraction of known plant viruses and are responsible for more than half the viral damage to crop plants throughout the world. New details of their structures, which were poorly understood, have been revealed by scientists using a variety of sophisticated imaging techniques at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory and collaborating institutions.These findings, just published in the October 1, 2008, issue of the Journal of Virology, may lead to new ways to protect crop plants from viruses and other forms of damage. The structural information may also benefit scientists interested in using viruses as agents of biotechnology to coax plants to produce other useful products, such as pharmaceuticals.“These are very important viruses, and we knew almost nothing about their detailed structure before these studies,” said Gerald Stubbs, a structural biologist at Vanderbilt University and lead author on the paper. “If you are to come up with any molecular way of combating these plant diseases, you need to know the details of their structures.” For example, structural information could help scientists design molecules that interfere with the virus’s ability to infect plant cells. The scientists from Vanderbilt, Brookhaven, Boston University, Illinois Institute of Technology, and the University of Kentucky studied the structures of two plant viruses from unrelated families, the Potyviridae and Flexiviridae, using a combination of complementary imaging techniques — x-ray diffraction at DOE’s Argonne National Laboratory, cryo-electron microscopy at Vanderbilt, and scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) at Brookhaven.“Brookhaven Lab is home to one of only a few STEM machines in the world,” said co-author Joseph Wall, a biophysicist at Brookhaven who designed and runs the facility.“These techniques are very ... Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:21:14 GMT http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Clean-Energy/New-Technology/Honda-Insight-s-Disappointing-Mileage_18_151_814_134635.html Honda has just released a smattering of new details on it's all-new Insight. The car will be the cheapest hybrid vehicle available when it goes on sale in the spring of 2009, but it won't be the most efficient. I was truly hoping that the new Insight would take after its father. And while, obviously, it couldn't have hit the ridiculous numbers (beyond 70 mpg) of the original, tiny, two-seater Insight, I was at least hoping it would beat the Prius. But alas, the Insight will come in right around Honda's current hybrid offering, the hybrid Civic, about 42 mpg. So what makes this car so great then, if it has the same mileage as a hybrid Civic and worse than the Prius? Well, a few things, actually. It's cheaper than either the Prius ($22k) or the Civic Hybrid ($23.5k). So despite being less efficient, it might be more green just because more people will buy them. Honda is banking on selling 200,000 of them per year...a lofty goal. It's a dedicated hybrid...the only one besides the Prius (and the old Insight, if you want to count it.) Which isn't important at all for the environment, but it's important for people's desire to want to buy them. It's like having the whole car be a bumper sticker that says "I'm on the cutting edge of green technology!" It's pretty. Again, not important for the environment, but important when you're trying to sell 200,000 of them a year. Going from 40 to 50 mpg doesn't actually save all that much gas. Don't believe me, see our article on why MPG is a stupid measurement. So yes...we want one. But we'd actually rather have a Volt, or some other car that doesn't burn any gas at all under normal circumstances. But I predict broad consumer appeal for the Insight...I think my wife is harboring a secret desire for one, so that may be a point of conflict between us.