Power Stories for 2008

Home Generators (or How DTE Energy Ruined My Holidays) 695
Batteries To Store Wind Energy 275
Man Invents Alternative To Cooking Gas 553
Student Invention May Significantly Extend Mobile Device Battery Life 160
Brand Names Take On Generics In PSU Showdown 223
Wireless Power Consortium Pushes For Standard 221
US Corps Want $1B From Gov't For Battery Factory 394
Are Biofuels Still Economically Feasible? 186
Chinese Automaker Unveils First Electric Car 341
Wind and Sun Beat Other Energy Alternatives 584
Five PC Power Myths Debunked 551
Waste Coffee Grounds Offer New Source of Biodiesel 276
Energy-Generating Floors To Power Subway Displays In Tokyo 98
Ultracapacitor LED Flashlight Charges In 90 Seconds 131
Pushing 800W of Wireless Power at 5 Meters 397
Hawaii Planning State-Wide Electric Car Network 255
Talk-Powered Cell Phones Won't Need Batteries 197
Ubiquitous Hydrogen Power Not Getting Any Closer 267
Bay Area To Install Electric Vehicle Grid 388
Spanish City Sets Up Solar Cemetery 71
Harnessing Slow Water Currents For Renewable Energy 113
NRDC Rates Energy Efficiency of Video Game Consoles 260
New Generator Boosts Wind Turbine Efficiency 50% 315
"Heat Wheel" Could Lower Data Center Power Bills 97
Plasma Plants Vaporize Trash While Creating Energy 618
Saving Energy Via Webcam-Based Meter Reading? 215
Dean Kamen Combines Stirling Engine With Electric Car 324
Daylight Savings Time Increases Energy Use In Indiana 388
Canadians Plan Robot Sub Missions To Aid Claim For Arctic 86
Rainforest Fungus Synthesizes Diesel 244
Portable Solar Power For Portable Hardware? 262
More Sony Batteries Recalled 42
When Does Powering Down Servers Make Sense? 301
Mars Lander Faces Slow Death 212
PC Makers Try To Pinch Seconds From Their Boot Times 399
Australia Developing Massive Electric Vehicle Grid 260
Hydrogen-Producing Bacteria Could Provide Clean Energy 57
Alternatives to Daylight Saving Time? 755
Microsoft, Google Battle Over Energy Efficiency 164
Computers Causing 2nd Hump In Peak Power Demand 375
"Black Silicon" Advances Imaging, Solar Energy 114
EMP-Shielded Power Grids Under Development 111
EU Wants Removable Batteries In iPhones 320
UK's Loughborough Uni Demos Hydrogen Motorcycle 121
Solyndra's Thin-Film Solar Cells Draw $1.2 Billion In Orders 131
10 IT Power-Saving Myths Debunked 359
Mimicking Electric Eel Cells 71
Linux Rescues Battery Life On Vista Notebooks From Dell 200
Plug-in Hybrids May Not Go Mainstream, Toyota Says 519
Researchers Re-Examine Second Law of Thermodynamics 125
Toshiba Battery Charges In 10 Minutes 203
Germany Fired Up Over Clean Coal 385
Intel Shows Data Centers Can Get By (Mostly) With Little AC 287
7th-Grader Designs Three Dimensional Solar Cell 719
Breakthrough In Use of Graphene For Ultracapacitors 250
Compressor-Free Refrigerator On the Way 67
The Windbelt – a Cheap Wind-Power Generator 75
World Human Powered Boat Record Broken 30
NASA Developing Small Nuclear Reactor For the Moon 431
'Super Steel' Sought For Fusion Reactors 421
Environmental Cost of Hybrids' Battery Recycling? 520
IT Vs. the Permanent Energy Crisis 285
Sony Pledges More Accurate Laptop Battery Figures 185
The Google Navy 259
Redesigned, Bulkier Honda Insight to Challenge Prius 638
MIT Secretly Built Mega-Efficient Nano Batteries 195
The Power Grid Can't Handle Wind Farms 681
Space Cube – the World's Smallest Linux PC 265
What To Do With All of My Gadget Chargers? 696
Fuel-Cell Car Racing Series Aims To Spur Green Motoring 254
Solar Plane Breaks Endurance Record 134
California Classes LED Component Gallium Arsenide a Carcinogen 495
Intel Claims an Advance In Wireless Power 327
Wind-Powered "Greenbird" Seeks Land-Speed Record 38
Solar Cells — Made In a Pizza Oven 518
Japan Demands Probe of iPod Nano Flameouts 339
Mimicking Photosynthesis To Split Water 257
World's Largest Solar Plants Planned In California 403
Americans Refusing To Wait For Mainstream EVs 779
China to Build a Zero-Carbon Green City 620
Digital Camera Powered By a Fuel Cell 117
Bigger, Cheaper Solar Cells 370
New Map of Carved Up Arctic 294
Google Earth Used To Predict Electrical Problems 91
Using Sun's Energy to Split Water Means Solar Power All Night 557
Alaska Looks To Volcanos For Geothermal Energy 230
What Gore Didn't Say About Solar Cells 574
Ohio Researchers Advance Heat Reclamation Technologies 124
Microsoft Engineers Invent Displays That Top LCDs For Efficiency 283
Robocars As the Best Way Geeks Can Save the Planet 394
Michigan Wins 2008 North American Solar Challenge 37
GM, Utilities Partner To Advance Plug-In Hybrids 582
Switching To Solar Power – One Month Later 730
Liquid Metal CPU Heatsink Beats Water Cooling 218
Making Strides Toward Low-Cost LED Lighting 398
"Tabletop" Fusion Researcher Committed Scientific Misconduct 161
Texas To Build $4.93B Wind-Power Project 250
Warning Future Generations About Nuclear Waste 616
American Solar Challenge Racers Head For Canada 144
Superconducting Power Grid Launches In New York 264
Researchers Improve Solar Cell Performance 292
"Vetrolium" From Agricultural Waste 438
Pickens Plans On Wind Power 587
Home-Based Hydrogen Refueling Station 163
Mercedes To Phase Out Gasoline By 2015 908
Giant Snake-Shaped Generators Could Capture Wave Power 432
550 Metric Tons of Uranium Removed From Iraq 647
Freeze On US Solar Plant Applications Lifted 282
Cheaper Energy From Caverns of Compressed Air 114
Solar Power From Home Curtains 239
Are SSDs Really More Power Efficient? 222
US Halts Applications For Solar Energy Projects 481
Power Consumption of a Typical PC While Gaming 211
First US Offshore Wind Power Park In Delaware 363
DIY Solar Resources? 311
Building the Green Data Center 86
McCain Backs Nuclear Power 1563
GE Microbes Make Ersatz Crude Oil From Many Sources 525
A 30-Picowatt Processor For Sensors 93
Westinghouse Commits to Green Plug's Universal A.C. Adapter 224
Japanese Company Says Laws of Physics Don't Apply — to Cars 736
Efficiency? Think Racing Cars, Not Hybrids 1320
Latest "Green" Power Generation — Your Feet 189
Software Update Shuts Down Nuclear Power Plant 355
Inside the TRS-80 Model 100 228
Prism Glass Windows Making a Comeback 89
Avalanche Effect Demonstrated In Solar Cells 234
Eric Lerner's Focus Fusion Device Gets Funded 367
Giant Floating Windmills To Launch Next Year 162
Successful Cold Fusion Experiment? 387
US Data Centers Wary of Sharing Energy Data With Feds 101
Oil Billionaire Building World's Largest Wind Farm 661
Hairy Solar Cells Could Mean Higher Efficiency 203
World's Newest, Most Powerful Laser Comes Online 110
Round Robin Scheduling Not Power-Efficient 141
First Town In US To Become 100% Wind Powered 391
Wireless Power Companies Merge, But No Real-Life Devices Yet 48
Tesla Motors Opens Retail Store 442
Smarter Electric Grid Could Save Power 268
Data Centers Expected to Pollute More Than Airlines by 2020 322
An Inside Look At Iran's Nuclear Program 528
Reducing the Power Consumption of Overclocked PCs 119
Hobbyist Renewable Energy? 607
Antineutrino Device Tackles Nuclear Proliferation 70
Consumer Ethanol Appliance Promised By Year's End 365
Focused Microwaves Could Enable Wireless Power Transfer 180
$1/Gallon "Green Gasoline" In Sight 740
Self-Healing Ceramics for Nuclear Safety 45
Home Wind-Power Turbines Make Headway 163
Tech That Will Save Our Species - Solar Thermal Power 648
The Texas Petawatt Laser 174
Oil Deposit Could Increase US Reserves 10x 869
Iceland Woos Data Centers As Power Costs Soar 142
Material Converts Radiation Into Electricity 146
Western Digital's "Green" Hard Drives 187
Microchip Powered by Body Heat 73
Buckyballs Can Store Concentrated Hydrogen 193
Questions Arising On Mercury In Compact Fluorescents 560
Researchers Design Microchip Ten Times More Efficient 113
100-Year-Old Electric Car Design Makes a Comeback 385
Samurai-Sword Maker May Cool Nuclear Revival 317
US Plans "Disposable" Nuclear Batteries 297
DOE Shines $14M on Solar Energy Research 164
Government Report Examines Alternative Energy Research 50
MIT's Nano Storage Could Replace Hybrid Batteries 191
HP Looks To Improve Power Management Coordination 63
MSI Develops a Heat-Driven Cooler 173
Blu-ray In Laptops Could Be Hard On Batteries 202
Nanoparticles Could Make Hydrogen Cheaper Than Gasoline 442
Reactor Shutdown Darkens South Florida 356
New Solar Cell Harvests Hydrogen From Water 222
U of MI Produces Strongest Laser Ever 244
Google's Addiction to Cheap Electricity 254
Hydrogen-Powered cars with Zero-Carbon-Emission? 203
Nanowires Allow For Electricity-Generating Clothing 113
DOE Shines $21M on Advanced Lighting Research 238
Knee Brace Generates Electricity From Walking 128
Yet Another Perpetual Motion Device 563
Energy From Raindrops 144
Li-Ion Batteries Hit Final R&D Phase for Plug-in Cars 238
US Pulls Plug on Low-CO2 Powerplant Project 360
Suppresed Video of Japanese Reactor Sodium Leak 341
Startup Claims to Make $1/Gallon Ethanol 456
Do Any Companies Power Down at Night? 646
CIA Claims Cyber Attackers Blacked Out Cities 280
Nanotech Anode Promises 10X Battery Life 193
AT&T To Replace 17,000 Batteries 71
Lockheed Signs with EEStor to Use New Ultracapacitor 50
California Utilities to Control Thermostats? 503
Body Heat Could Charge Your Cellphone 94
Switchgrass Makes Better Ethanol Than Corn 560
Startup Offers Peltier-On-Chip 70
What is the Future of Wireless Power? 178
Super Soaker Inventor Hopes to Double Solar Efficiency 288
Scientific American's Solar Grand Plan 122
Scientists Recycle CO2 with Sunlight to Make Fuel 289
Use of Asphalt Paved Surfaces For Solar Heat 110