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Research aims to improve battery-life for smartphones 10/2/2012

Dr Da-Wei Wang's work on prolonging battery life has won him a Research Excellence Award from The University of Queensland (UQ).

Researchers developing next generation 'super battery' 9/27/2012

The University of Nottingham is working with E.ON to develop a next generation 'super battery' — which will enable businesses to benefit from clean, cheap and powerful energy storage. ...

Think before imposing carbon tax, experts warn 9/27/2012

Calls for carbon taxes to tackle global warming often dodge the complexity of this issue, with the risk hasty action could damage the world economy and fuel the greenhouse-gas problem, ...

Plastic solar cells pave way for clean energy industry 9/25/2012

A Flinders University researcher has been developing a cheaper and faster way of making large-scale plastic solar cells using a lamination technique, paving the way for a lucrative ...

Australia 'at risk' of having all eggs in the Asia basket 9/23/2012

Concerns appear to be mounting that Australia is at risk by having all its economic eggs in the Asia basket amid a slowdown in China and the softening of key commodity prices.

Turning farm waste into energy 9/16/2012

The University of Nottingham in the UK is helping a small local business develop a unique technique for converting waste products from farms into energy.

Use carbon tax to clean up coal pollution, researchers urge 9/16/2012

Two of Australian's leading clean-up scientists have urged governments and policymakers to earmark a portion of the carbon tax to cleaning up the mess that may be left by the nation's ...

Salt-based battery a giant leap for renewable energy 9/10/2012

Murdoch University researchers have come up with a potential solution to one of sustainable energy's greatest challenges: power storage for use in non-generation times.

Fast-charge stations powering zero-emission vehicles 9/10/2012

Perth has gained Australia's first electric car fast recharge network with 23 new fast-charge stations installed across the metro area, in a project led by researchers from The ...

Comfort laboratory tackles indoor climate change 9/3/2012

University of Sydney researchers will be looking for ways to slash one of the world's biggest single sources of energy consumption — the heating and cooling of buildings — at a ...

Carbon capture breakthrough: turning emissions into stockfeed 9/2/2012

The political football that is carbon pricing could be deflated thanks to a scientist who has discovered a way to turn carbon dioxide emissions into stockfeed.

Could Chinese investment really hurt Australia? 8/26/2012

While debate about Chinese investment in Australia is on the boil, we still don't know what will be cooked up.

Nanoparticles could store 'fuel of the future' 8/19/2012

For the first time, engineers at the University of New South Wales have demonstrated hydrogen can be released and reabsorbed from a promising storage material, overcoming a major ...

Sound-powered stove is music to the ears of rural villages 8/12/2012

A revolutionary sound-powered stove and electrical generator is currently being tested in the conditions it was designed for — rural villages in Nepal and Bangladesh.

Blacker photovoltaic panels boost power generation efficiency 7/26/2012

Simple production process for lowering the reflectance of solar panels lends itself to commercialisation.

US researchers closer to new thermoelectric 'heat engine' 7/19/2012

Researchers who are studying a new magnetic effect that converts heat to electricity have discovered how to amplify it a thousand times over - a first step in making the technology ...

Storing renewable energy: cheap, green solution a step closer 7/19/2012

Developing rechargeable batteries capable of storing the huge amounts of energy generated by renewable sources, such as wind power, is consuming many hundreds of research hours at ...

Study explores apprenticeship, homeless link 7/19/2012

Claims of a growing homelessness risk among apprentices will be the focus of a new study by Flinders University researchers.

Funding boost for super microchip 7/15/2012

Griffith University's Queensland Micro- and Nanotechnology Centre has been awarded $1 million in research funding by the state government to develop production processes for a silicon ...

Emission reduction technology gets funding boost 7/15/2012

Curtin University researchers will develop new technology for reducing carbon dioxide emissions after receiving $1 million of State Government funding.

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