The Berkeley Darfur Stove is a high-efficiency outdoor cooking stove with improved heat transfer characteristics, high combustion under draft, improved mechanical stability, and a design that uses very few parts and can easily be built with hand tools and the simple equipment that is typically available in remote areas of the world. The stove provides women in refugee … [Read more...] about The Berkeley Darfur Stove
Energy Saved, Benefits Earned: Home Energy Saver
Residential buildings consume over 20 percent of all energy used in the United States. When homeowners make upgrades that reduce energy use, they not only save money in energy costs, but they reduce the need to generate power, and its associated air emissions. Home Energy Saver™, funded by DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy and developed at Lawrence … [Read more...] about Energy Saved, Benefits Earned: Home Energy Saver
LBNL Device Monitors Ocean Carbon
Imagine waking up each morning and discovering that twenty percent of all plants in your garden had disappeared over night. They had been eaten. Equally astonishing would be the discovery in the afternoon that new plants had taken their place. This is the norm of life in the ocean. Without the ability to accurately observe these daily changes in ocean life cycles, over vast … [Read more...] about LBNL Device Monitors Ocean Carbon
Artificial Positive Feedback Loop for Increasing Production of a Biosynthetic Product in Specific Plant Tissues 2014-028
APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: Increasing production of a variety of products in specific plant tissue types. Examples include: Cereal crops: increased stem strength to reduce lodging and grain loss (e.g., in rice, wheat, barley, rye) Biofuels: reduced cell-wall recalcitrance in feedstocks (e.g., switchgrass, sugarcane, corn, poplar, eucalyptus) Low-water-use … [Read more...] about Artificial Positive Feedback Loop for Increasing Production of a Biosynthetic Product in Specific Plant Tissues 2014-028
Boron Nitride Nanotubes with Modified Surfaces IB-2332
APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: Mechanical reinforcements and composites, e.g. cell phone cases, structural elements of aircraft Batteries, supercapacitors Fuel cell components Transistors, biosensors Field emission sources Electronic circuits Scaffolds for novel chemistries Deep ultraviolet light emitters ADVANTAGES: Excellent mechanical and … [Read more...] about Boron Nitride Nanotubes with Modified Surfaces IB-2332