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  New 'Nuclear Battery' Runs 10 Years, 10 Times More Powerful

  May 14, 2005 — A battery with a lifespan measured in decades is in development at the University of Rochester, as scientists demonstrate a new fabrication method that in its roughest form is already 10 times more ... > full story
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  Silicon Solution Could Lead To A Truly Long-Life Battery

  May 11, 2005 — Using some of the same manufacturing techniques that produce microchips, researchers have created a porous-silicon diode that may lead to improved betavoltaics. Such devices convert low levels of ... > full story
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  Molecular Breakthrough For Plastic Electronics

  April 19, 2005 — The potential applications for flexible plastic electronics are enormous, but certain technological hurdles must be overcome before we see widespread use. Now a Northwestern University team reports a ... > full story
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  Engineers: In Big Picture, Gas, Cordless Mowers Equal Polluters

  March 29, 2005 — A new study by University of Florida engineers confirms that traditional gas-powered mowers belch far more smog-forming pollution than battery-powered or corded mowers. But the study, described in an ... > full story
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  Membraneless Fuel Cell Is Tiny, Versatile

  March 25, 2005 — A fuel cell designed by researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign can operate without a solid membrane separating fuel and oxidant, and functions with alkaline chemistry in ... > full story
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  Georgia Tech Microgenerator Can Power Electronics

  January 23, 2005 — It may be tiny, but a new microgenerator developed at Georgia Tech can now produce enough power to run a small electronic device, like a cell phone, and may soon be able to power a ... > full story
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  New Way Of Making Fuel Cells Lowers Costs

  January 23, 2005 — University of Michigan researchers are developing ways that could produce fuel cells at a fraction of the current cost by using microfabrication rather than traditional manufacturing ... > full story
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  Optical Innovator Uses Soda-Straw-Like Tubes To Solve Widespread Sensing Problems

  January 22, 2005 — Sending weak beams of light through inexpensive glass tubes that resemble soda straws, Sandia National Laboratories researcher Jonathan Weiss — dubbed by some the “light wizard” ... > full story
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  Portable Sampling Cart Monitors Emissions From Wood-Burning Cookstoves

  December 19, 2004 — A new method of measuring emissions from cookstoves could help improve human health and enhance the accuracy of global climate ... > full story
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  'Spacelift' For Vendée Globe Sailor

  November 23, 2004 — When Marc Thiercelin set out on the Vendée Globe, one of the world’s toughest sailing races, earlier this month, novel space technologies were used to give his six-year-old boat a ... > full story

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