New Cement-Making Method Could Slash Carbon Emissions

The proof-of-concept device concentrates sunlight to break apart limestone.

David Owen: Daniel Nocera’s artificial leaf.

Daniel Nocera was a science-minded high-school junior in New Jersey at the beginning of the Arab oil embargo, in 1973. American fuel prices soared, the stock market crashed, Congress prohibited speed limits higher than fifty-five miles an hour, and President Nixon banned the sale of gasoline on . . . (Subscription required.)

Research and Markets: Platinum Group Metals: Issues and Opportunities 2012

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Platinum Group Metals: Issues and Opportunities 2012"

Global Solar Power Capacity Set to Jump

By Svetlana Kovalyova VERONA, Italy (Reuters) - The world's solar power generating capacity will grow by between 200 and 400 percent over the next five years, with Asia and other emerging markets overtaking leadership from Europe, a European industry association said on Monday. Global installed photovoltaic (PV) capacity, which turns sunlight into power, is expected to have risen to between 207 ...

Hydrogen could boost gas mileage in cars; UNF professor skeptical

With gas prices eclipsing $4 per gallon for the first time since 2008, the technology of hydrogen-to-internal combustion engines is gaining traction.