THINNEST LIGHT ABSORBER PUSHES SOLAR ENERGY LIMITS Researchers at Stanford have developed the thinnest, most efficient solar cell yet. The wafer is dotted with trillions of round particles of gold, […]
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Clean Energy
Down On The Farm, Clean Energy Requirements Are Opportunities, Not Burdens By Katie Valentine on Jul 18, 2013 at 3:23 pm (Credit: AP/Ajit Solanki) American farmers aren’t usually seen as champions […]
Solar Car
You might be interested a team of Dutch students designed a family car that produces more solar energy than it uses. It feeds the rest back into the grid! SHARE […]
Driving Assistance System
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UI Teams Up with NASA to Better Predict Precipitation
Iowa City Press-Citizen: UI Teams Up with NASA to Better Predict Precipitation Via Satellites Thursday, June 13, 2013 A large crane drops the NASA Polarimetric antenna into place in Eastern…
From Bits To Atoms And Back-3D Printing
http://www.engineering.uiowa.edu/news/virtually-real. Still far from the Star Trek replicator materializing objects and edibles at voice command 3-D printing is becoming more and more accessible to the individual. There are 3-D shops…
Wind turbines withstand tornado and power down energy prices
Wind turbines withstand tornado with nearly 300-mph winds, June 6, 2013 http://aweablog.org/blog/post/wind-turbines-withstand-tornado-with-nearly-300mph-winds Wind Energy Industry: Turbines Power Down Energy Prices September 26, 2012 DES MOINES, Iowa – Home and…
Engineering Jobs how to
The 1937 resume yearbooks were so successful the entire College of Engineering adopted the scheme the following year. Simply titled Senior Class of 1938, College of Engineering, the small book—it…
Happy Birthday Ellen Ochoa Director Johnson Space Center.
Ellen Lauri Ochoa is a former astronaut and current Director of the Johnson Space Center. Ochoa became director of the center upon retirement of the current director, Michael Coats, on…
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