Posts Tagged ‘Green Tech’

Distressing brain injury patients face walking difficulties even following revival

Technology.am(Jan 20, 2010) — Washington, Jan 20: A latest Canadian research suggests that locomotor deficits can still continue in people who have suffered a traumatic brain injury (TBI) even if they appear to have improved completely.
To come up with their conclusion, a team led by Professor Bradford McFadyen from Université Laval compared mobility in [...]

Latest method to quantify CO2 over oceans more competently than existing methods

Technology.am (Jan 20, 2010) — Washington: Scientists have developed a latest technique to quantify carbon dioxide (CO2) over the ocean in a much enhanced manner than existing methods.
The system has been developed by researchers at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (NOCS), working in partnership with colleagues at the Bjerknes Center for Climate Research in Bergen, [...]

Tesla, Panasonic team up on EV batteries

Technology.am (Jan 07, 2010) — It seems that when Panasonic President Fumio Ohtsubo said in December that his company would devote $1 billion in green technologies for the home, he might already have had an agreement in the works for the garage.
Panasonic will be teaming up with Tesla Motors to expand next-generation nickel-based lithium ion [...]

Microsoft, Google uncover Climate Change Web Apps

Technology.am (Dec. 15, 2009) — Microsoft and Google have built Web applications intended to underline environmental problems coinciding with the climate change negotiations in Copenhagen that run through Friday.
Microsoft is functioning with the European Environmental Agency (EEA) to utilize its Bing Maps, Silverlight multimedia technology and Azure cloud platform to demonstrate how climate change is [...]

Millions of homes to acquire energy competence displays

Technology.am (Dec. 15, 2009) — The days of learning regarding your electricity consumption once a month are the on the decline. Motivated by consumer interest in energy and usefulness smart-grid programs, home energy information displays are balanced to come into people’s kitchens and living rooms in large numbers over the next few years, according to [...]

Lithium can be extracted from geothermal waste

Technology.am (Dec. 14, 2009) — A practice developed by a Californian company, Simbol Mining, will allow the valuable mineral lithium, broadly used in high-density batteries, to be reclaimed from the hot waste water generated by a geothermal power plant in California.
The utilization of lithium has been ever-increasing internationally, and is predicted to triple by 2020 [...]

‘Monster’ iceberg flaking hundreds of offshoots

Technology.am (Dec. 14, 2009) — An island-sized iceberg is breaking up as it drifts nearer to Australia, producing hundreds of smaller slabs spread over an enormous region of ocean, experts said Monday.
The 140-square-kilometre (54-square-mile) chunk of ice, known as B17B, was seen some 1,700 kilometers (1,054 miles) south-southwest of Australia’s western coast on December 9, [...]

Hi-tech, ecological dream home takes shape in Japan

Technology.am (Dec. 14, 2009) — Solar panels on the roof and a fuel-cell in the backyard power the family house, a lithium-ion battery stores the excess electricity, hot water pipes double as floor heating, and good insulation saves energy all round. However it’s the little high-tech touches that give this eco-house a cutting edge when [...]

Met Office to print man-made global warming information

Technology.am (Dec. 05, 2009) — The Met Office (MO) is to broadcast about the publishing the raw statistics it uses to analyze man-made global warming. It follows a row about the consistency of data from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia which has been dubbed “Climategate”.
The MO has on paper [...]

A.P. And others produce news center on Facebook for climate discussion

Technology.am (Dec. 02, 2009) — The Associated Press is partnering with additional international news organizations on an online hub where readers can intermingle with journalists covering the climate talks opening next week in Copenhagen.
The page on the social-networking site Facebook is intended at drawing fresh readers and getting them more occupied with news coverage online. [...]