ScienceDaily: Top Environment News: One step to solar-cell efficiency: Chemical process may improve manufacturing

Jay OwenGreentech, Earth Systems Science

ScienceDaily: Top Environment News One step to solar-cell efficiency: Chemical process may improve manufacturing Posted: 19 Jun 2014 09:55 AM PDT Scientists have created a one-step process for producing highly efficient materials that let the maximum amount of sunlight reach a solar cell. Scientists found a simple way to etch …

ScienceDaily: Top Environment News: Synthesized ‘solar’ jet fuel: Renewable kerosene from sunlight, water and carbon dioxide

Jay OwenGreentech

ScienceDaily: Top Environment News Synthesized ‘solar’ jet fuel: Renewable kerosene from sunlight, water and carbon dioxide Posted: 03 May 2014 03:49 PM PDT With the first ever production of synthesized “solar” jet fuel, the EU-funded SOLAR-JET project has successfully demonstrated the entire production chain for renewable kerosene obtained directly from …

Obama’s Proposed Fracking Rule Would Lead to Dirty Energy | The Energy Collective Daily

Jay OwenGreentech

  Obama’s Proposed Fracking Rule Would Lead to Dirty Energy | The Energy Collective Daily

BIOMIMICRY, Innovation Inspired by Nature by Janine M. Benyus

Ethical Markets - RBooks and Reviews, Nature/Biomimicry

  Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature Review by Alan F Kay  Biomimicry by Janine Benyus deals with the clear and fascinating, yet little understood and vast, reality of the processes of life and living beings. The book summarizes these ideas this way: Virtually all living creatures: plants, animals, microbes, etc., …

Clean Technica: Self-Assembling DNA Molecules As Scaffolding For Artificial Photosynthesis — Solar Energy Antenna Developed

Jay OwenGreentech

Top cleantech news of the day fromCleanTechnica, the world’s #1 cleantech or clean energy website:   Self-Assembling DNA Molecules As Scaffolding For Artificial Photosynthesis — Solar Energy Antenna Developed Coal Industry Must Wake Up – Renewables Are The Future MidAmerica Energy To Boost 579 MW Antelope Valley Solar Project Investment …

NewNet Daily Newsletter: Total to provide $30m funding to Amyris and enter biofuel JV

Jay OwenGreentech

NewNet Daily Newsletter 9 April 2013 Corporate venture firms eye green opportunities – read the inside story with a New Energy World Network premium subscription Deal News Total to provide $30m funding to Amyris and enter biofuel JV Mosaic to crowdfund another $100m of Californian solar GE Capital spends $40m on …

ScienceDaily: Top Environment News: Microalgae produce more oil faster for energy, food or products

Jay OwenNature/Biomimicry

ScienceDaily: Top Environment News Microalgae produce more oil faster for energy, food or products New light shed on ancient Egyptian port and ship graveyard Schoolboy finds 300 million year old fossil New foot-and-mouth vaccine is safer and cheaper to produce Air pollution stunts coral growth Retinoic acid gradient visualized for …

ScienceDaily: Top Environment News

Jay OwenEarth Systems Science

Insect pests more plentiful in hotter parts of city than in cooler areas Poultry probiotic cuts its coat to beat bad bacteria New bone survey method could aid long-term survival of Arctic caribou How microbes survive at bare minimum: Archaea eat protein New evidence ancient asteroid caused global firestorm on …

Alternative Energy

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity

Scotland Chooses Wind Energy Over Trump’s Golf Course Plant Extracts Used For Making Water Soluble Solar Panels Using fluctuating wind power Nanoparticles show promise as inexpensive, durable and effective scintillators Kenyan Ambassador To Speak At New York Geothermal Conference Microscale medical sensors inserted under skin powered wirelessly by external handheld …

ScienceDaily: Top Environment News : One gene, many mutations: Key that controls coat color in mice evolved nine times

Jay OwenTV Series

ScienceDaily: Top Environment News One gene, many mutations: Key that controls coat color in mice evolved nine times DNA study clarifies how polar bears and brown bears are related Dinosaur-era climate change study suggests reasons for turtle disappearance Life deep within oceanic crust sustained by energy from interior of Earth …