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'Juiced-Up' Battery Fueled By Sugar Could Power Small Portable Electronics Chicago IL (SPX) Mar 28, 2007 
Juicing up your cell phone or iPod may take on a whole new meaning in the future. Researchers at Saint Louis University in Missouri have developed a fuel cell battery that runs on virtually any sugar source - from soft drinks to tree sap - and has the potential to operate three to four times longer on a single charge than conventional lithium ion batteries, they say.
For consumers, that could mean significantly longer time to talk and play music between charges ... read more
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ORNL Helps Develop Next-Generation LEDs
Oak Ridge TN (SPX) Mar 28, 2007Nanotechnology may unlock the secret for creating highly efficient next-generation LED lighting systems, and exploring its potential is the aim of several projects centered at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Seen everywhere today from traffic signals, taillights and cell phone displays to stadium JumboTrons, light emitting diodes fluoresce as electrical current passes through them. The most ... more Technical Watchdog Approves First Oil Platform On Sakhalin II 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Mar 26, 2007The Russian technical standards body approved Tuesday an industrial safety assessment of the first oil platform for the Sakhalin II oil and gas project off Russia's Pacific Coast. The ambitious project, formerly led by Shell, was subjected to months of intense pressure last year from Russian authorities, who accused it of causing serious environmental damage to Sakhalin Island, including d ... more Nuclear Energy 'Not The Solution To Global Warming' 
Dublin (AFP) March 26, 2007Environment ministers from Austria, Iceland, Ireland and Norway said Monday that nuclear power was not the solution to global warming. In a joint statement following a meeting in Dublin, the four ministers from the non-nuclear countries said the "inherent risks and problems associated with the nuclear energy option remain and it can not therefore claim to be a clean alternative to fossil f ... more MORE HEADLINES |
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