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March 3, 2010
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Good Morning,
Today's newsletter includes two separate articles on new
advancements in energy storage and distribution. Check out
the middle section (the second and third article) for all
the details. Both stories are incredible and give hope in a
time widely defined by its dwindling resources.
Until Next Time,
Erin
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Countdown under way for weather satellite
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The countdown is under way at Cape
Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida for the launch of the
latest in a series of U.S. meteorological satellites. The
Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-P --
nicknamed GOES-P -- is set for lift off atop a Delta IV
rocket Thursday during a 6:17 p.m.-7:17 p.m. EST launch
window. The spacecraft is designed to observe storm develop-
ment and weather conditions on Earth, officials said. It
will also detect ocean and land temperatures, monitor space
weather, relay communications and provide search-and-rescue
support. GOES-P was built by Boeing Launch Services for the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration under NASA's
technical and project management, officials said. The launch
is being managed by the United Launch Alliance under a Fed-
eral Aviation Administration license.
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Nanotech may transform energy storage
STANFORD, Calif. - A U.S. scientist says he and his team are
re-conceptualizing energy storage by utilizing nanotech-
nology. Stanford Assistant Professor Yi Cui says nanotech
products of the future might allow energy storage on paper
and cloth while retaining the mechanical properties of ordi-
nary paper or fabric. Cui's team envisions numerous functi-
onal uses for their inventions -- homes lined with energy-
storing wallpaper or reactive high-performance sportswear
that would allow everything from portable appliances to a
soldier's battle gear to be powered by an outlet woven into
a T-shirt. "Energy storage is a pretty old research field,"
Cui said. "Supercapacitors, batteries -- those things are
old. How do you really make a revolutionary impact in this
field? It requires quite a dramatic difference of thinking."
Cui said he plans to direct his research toward studying
both the "hard science" behind the electrical properties of
nanomaterials and designing real-world applications. "This
is the right time to really see what we learn from nano-
science and do practical applications that are extremely
promising," he said. The Cui group's latest research on
energy storage devices was detailed in papers published in
the December online edition of the Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences and in the January issue of the
journal Nano Letters. Cui also presented his research last
week in San Diego during the annual meeting of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science.
New fuel cell technology is introduced
SUNNYVALE, Calif. - A U.S. energy company has unveiled a fuel
cell that it says can transform the nation's current system
of grid-distributed power into localized energy sources. The
Bloom Energy Corp. of Sunnyvale, Calif., says it's "Bloom
Energy Server" -- or "Bloom Box" -- is a solid oxide fuel
cell that can use a variety of fuel sources to provide "a
cleaner, more reliable and more affordable alternative to
both today's electric grid, as well as traditional renewable
energy sources." Bloom says its device generates enough
power to meet the needs of approximately 100 average U.S.
homes or a small office building in approximately the foot-
print of a parking space. For more power, multiple servers
can be installed side by side. "Customers who purchase
Bloom's systems can expect a 3-5-year payback on their capi-
tal investment from the energy cost savings," the company
said. "Depending on whether they are using a fossil or re-
newable fuel, they can also achieve a 40-100 percent reduc-
tion in their carbon footprint as compared with the U.S.
grid." Company co-founder and CEO K.R. Sridhar told a
Wednesday news conference: "We believe that we can have the
same kind of impact on energy that the mobile phone had on
communications. Just as cell phones circumvented landlines
to proliferate telephony, Bloom Energy will enable the
adoption of distributed power as a smarter, localized energy
source."
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DNA relationships found between plants
GAINESVILLE, Fla. - University of Florida scientists say a
DNA study they conducted has made clearer the origins of
flowering plants from peas to oak trees. The researchers
said the extensive analysis of plant genomes they conducted
unraveled 100 million years of evolution, focusing on one of
the major moments in plant evolution -- when the ancestors
of most of the world's flowering plants split into two major
groups. The scientists at the university's Florida Museum of
Natural History said the two groups make up nearly 70 per-
cent of all flowering plants and are part of a larger clade
known as Pentapetalae. The researchers said understanding
how these plants are related is a large undertaking that
could help ecologists better understand which species are
more vulnerable to environmental factors such as climate
change. Shortly after the two groups split, they simultan-
eously embarked upon a rapid burst of new species that
lasted 5 million years. The study, said the scientists,
shows how those species are related and sheds further light
on the emergence of flowering plants -- an evolutionary
phenomenon described by Charles Darwin as an abominable
mystery. "This paper and others show flowering plants as
layer after layer of bursts of evolution," said Professor
Doug Soltis, a study co-author. "Now it's falling together
into two big groups." The research that included Professor
Pam Soltis appears in the Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences.
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