Power Stories for 2009

Midwest Seeing Red Over 'Green' Traffic Lights 839
World's First Production Hybrid Motorcycle To Hit Market In India 128
"Home Batteries" Power Houses For a Week 325
Next-Gen Glitter-Sized Photovoltaic Cells Unveiled 155
Body Heat Energy Generation 214
Nuclear Reactors As Art 118
Swiss Geologist On Trial For Causing Earthquakes 258
Why Is a Laptop's Battery Dearer Than a Lawnmower's? 427
Broadband Rights & the Killer App of 1900 565
Nanotech Ink Turns Paper Into a Low-Cost Battery 129
Self-Destructing Bacteria Create Better Biofuels 139
Iron Mountain's Experimental Room 48 87
Silicon As the New Lithium 211
Electric Mini Cooper Has Rough Start 308
Recycling Excess Heat From the Data Center 121
Lifecycle Energy Costs of LED, CFL Bulbs Calculated 400
Algae Could Be the Key To Ultra-Thin Batteries 54
Facebook Putting Batteries On-Board Its Servers 155
NRC Relicensing Old "Zombie" Nuclear Plants 260
The World's First Osmotic Power Plant 262
Solar-Powered Plane Makes Runway Debut 120
UAVs Go Green With Fuel-Cell Powered "Ion Tiger" 83
Berkeley Engineers Have Some Bad News About Air Cars 278
Smart Grid Could Pose Threat To Privacy 297
Hackers Broke Into Brazil Power Grid Operator's Website Last Thursday 85
CERN Physicist Warns About Uranium Shortage 581
NIF Aims For the Ultimate Green Energy Source 234
Maine Wind Farm In Doubt Because Site Is Too Windy 3
How Vulnerable Is Our Power Grid? 359
Whistleblower Claims IEA Is Downplaying Peak Oil 720
10% of US Energy Derived From Old Soviet Nukes 213
Japan Eyes Solar Station In Space 247
Massive Power Outages In Brazil Caused By Hackers 462
Tech Allows Stable Integration of Wind In the Power Grid 235
Plug vs. Plug — Which Nation's Socket Is Best? 1174
The Story Behind a Failed HPC Startup 109
Appeal For Commuter GPS Logs To Aid Electric Cars 144
A Clever New Approach To Desalination 128
Chinese To Supply 600 MW Wind Farm In Texas 453
Thermonuclear Reactor To Use Coconut Shells 251
ARM Stealthily Rising As a Low-End Contender 285
Laptop Fires On Airplanes 560
Low-Power Home Linux Server? 697
Universal Phone Charger Approved By UN Body 220
NASA Power Beaming Challenge is On For November 2nd 81
The Risks and Rewards of Warmer Data Centers 170
Windows 7 On Multicore — How Much Faster? 349
Ultracapacitor Bus Recharges At Each Stop 419
A Step Closer To Cheap Nuclear Fusion 404
California Moving Forward With Big-Screen TV Power Restrictions 339
German Team Wins 2009 Solar Decathlon 56
Sonar Software Detects Laptop User Presence 167
Comparing Performance and Power Use For Vista vs. Windows 7 WIth Clarksfield Chip 119
High-Temp Superconductors To Connect Power Grids 332
New Jersey Outshines Most Others In Solar Energy 240
EPA To Reuse Toxic Sites For Renewable Energy 183
LG Presents Solar Powered E-Book 139
Yale Physicists Measure 'Persistent Current' 68
From Turbines and Straw, Danish Self-Sufficiency 183
Penny-Sized Nuclear Batteries Developed 444
Dow Chemical Rolling Out Solar Shingles Next Year 168
Open Access To Exercise Data? 188
Sony Prototype Sends Electricity Through the Air 240
Electric Car Nano-Batteries Aim For 500-Mile Range 650
Growing Power Gap Could Force Smartphone Tradeoffs 246
Making Safer Lithium-Ion Batteries 77
Carbon Nanotube Solar Cells On the Horizon 150
California Publishes Television Efficiency Standards For 2011 265
Blueprint For a Quantum Electric Motor 97
IPv6 Adoption Will Grow With Smart Grid Adoption, Hopes Cisco 169
Transforming Waste Plastic Into $10/Barrel Fuel 315
DHS To Review Report On US Power Grid Vulnerability 138
IE8 Beats Other Browsers In Laptop Battery Life 263
Surprise Discovery In Earth's Upper Atmosphere 243
Google Getting Into the Solar Mirror Business 139
Lichtblick and Volkswagen To Build 'Swarm' Power Plants 327
US Nuclear Power Industry Poised For a Comeback 853
Mixing Coal and Solar To Produce Cheaper Energy 198
Japan Plans $21B Space Power Plant 550
Wind Farms Can Interfere With Doppler Radar 179
Solar Roadways Get DoT Funding 484
Watermelon Juice Makes Great Biofuel 160
Why Is Linux Notebook Battery Life Still Poor? 907
"Gigantic Jets" Blast Electricity Into the Ionosphere 168
US Navy Tries To Turn Seawater Into Jet Fuel 402
Fatal Explosion At Russian Hydroelectric Dam 336
NASA Developing Nuclear Reactor For Moon and Mars 424
An Electricity-Cost-Aware Internet Routing Scheme 88
How Artificial Leaves Could Generate Clean Hydrogen 101
Chevy Volt Rated At 230 mpg In the City 1006
Printable Batteries Should Arrive Next Year 92
Windows Drains MacBook's Battery; Who's To Blame? 396
Navigating a Geek Marriage? 1146
Breakthrough in Electricity-Producing Microbe 177
Electric Company Wants Monthly Fee For Solar Users 367
Piston-Powered Nuclear Fusion 147
Funds Dwindle To Dismantle Old Nuclear Plants 315
Windows 7 vs. Windows XP On a Netbook 397
Wireless Power Demonstrated 124
Electricity From Salty Water 301
The Rocky Road To Wind Power 281
$2 Million NASA Power Beaming Challenge Heating Up 98
'Power Capping' the Datacenter 112
MIT Electric Car May Outperform Rival Gas Models 457
Radar Could Save Bats From Wind Turbines 116
First New Nuclear Reactor In a Decade On Track 575
A Server Farm Powered By a Wind Farm 164
Consumers May Find Smart Appliances a Dumb Idea 347
OLED Breakthrough Yields 75% More Efficient Lights 151
Novel Algae Fuel-Farming Method Gets Big Backing 176
Expanding the Electricity Grid May Be a Mistake 412
Cats "Exploit" Humans By Purring 503
Stealing Data Via Electrical Outlet 208
US Offering $45M For Huge Wind Energy Test Bed 91
Can Urine Rescue Hydrogen-Powered Cars? 313
Pickens Calls Off Massive Wind Farm In Texas 414
Incandescent Bulbs Return To the Cutting Edge 569
Data Center Power Failures Mount 100
New Video of Tesla's Mass-Market Electric Car 462
Generating Power From Ocean Buoys and Kites 131
Record-Breaking Solar Cells Tailored To Location 133
What the US Can Learn From Europe's Pollution Credit System 425
Standard Cellphone Chargers For Europeans 257
Chicken Feathers May Hold Key To Hydrogen Storage 318
New Lithium-Air Battery Delivers 10 Times the Energy Density 281
US House May Pass "Cap & Trade" Bill 874
Beamed Space Solar Power Plant To Open In 2016? 512
Google Funding the Next Big One? 295
15-Year-Old Invents Algae-Powered Energy System 230
Panasonic Begins To Lock Out 3d-Party Camera Batteries 450
Steorn's "Free Energy" Jury Comes Back To Bite Them 213
Switching To Solar Power, One Year Later 541
Wind Could Provide 100% of World Energy Needs 867
Intel Demos Wireless "Resonant" Recharging 184
Lies, Damn Lies, and Battery-Life Statistics 200
English Market Produces Energy With Kinetic Plates 404
EU Fusion Experiment's Financial Woes Get More Concrete 173
Jet Stream Kites Could Power New York City 263
First Floating Wind Turbine Buoyed Off Norway 265
Nokia Developed Wireless Power-Harvesting Phones 246
G.M. Opens Its Own Battery Research Laboratory 173
Analysis Says Planes Might Be Greener Than Trains 345
Printable, Rollable Solar Panels Could Go Anywhere 187
Vicariously Tour the National Ignition Facility 97
Laser Blast Makes Regular Light Bulbs Super-Efficient 559
French Fusion Experiment Delayed Until 2025 or Beyond 272
Revived LHC Could Run Through the Winter 164
Painting The World's Roofs White Could Slow Climate Change 712
The Great Ethanol Scam 894
Plastic and Fuel That Grow On Trees 188
Energy Star For Servers Falls Short 69
World's First Battery Fueled By Air 205
Europium's Superconductivity Demonstrated 103
IBM Pushing Water-Cooled Servers, Meeting Resistance 159
FCC's Duplicity On BPL Revealed 97
Measuring the User For CPU Frequency Scaling 190
Funding For Automotive Fuel Cells Cut 293
Ultra-Dense Deuterium Produced 355
220-mph Solar-Powered Train Proposed In Arizona 416
The Grid, Our Cars, and the Net 222
NASA Running Low On Fuel For Space Exploration 282
More "Miles Per Acre" From Bioelectricity Than Ethanol 223
Tesla's New York Laboratory Up For Sale 183
Natural Gas "Cleaning" Extracts Valuable Waste Carbon 73
Small Nuclear Power Plants To Dot the Arctic Circle 255
Bolivia Is the Saudi Arabia of Lithium 291
What We Can Do About Massive Solar Flares 224
Race Car Made With Veggies And Powered By Chocolate 83
Yamaha Unveils Golf Cart Powered By Cow Dung 78
Developing Battery Replacement Infrastructure For Electric Cars 369
Vatican To Build 100 Megawatt Solar Power Plant 447
How to Charge Your Cellphone Using Wasted Heat 214
Energy-Beaming Space Collector To Also Alter Weather? 274
Next-Gen Nuclear Power Plant Breaks Ground In China 426
12 Small Windmills Put To the Test In Holland 510
Creating a Low-Power Cloud With Netbook Chips 93
Why IT Won't Power Down PCs 576
Kyocera's OLED Phone Concept Charges As You Flex It 101
Florida To Build Solar-Powered City 195
Energy Secretary Chu Endorses "Clean Coal" 464
Computer-Controlled Cargo Sailing Vessels Go Slow, Frugal 210
China Denies Role In US Grid Hacks 91
PG&E Makes Deal For Solar Power From Space 392
Tesla CEO Says Gov't Loan Is 99% Sure and Deserved 652
Tesla Roadster Runs For 241 Miles In E-Rally 294
Altered Organism Triples Solar Cell Efficiency 158
CFLs Causing Utility Woes 859
US Electricity Grid Reportedly Penetrated By Spies 328
Solar Powered Car Can Get Close To 60 mph 119
ARM — Heretic In the Church of Intel, Moore's Law 390
Three Mile Island Memories 309
MIT Building Batteries Using Viruses 98
Offshore Windpower To Potentially Exceed US Demand 679
Yeast-Powered Fuel Cell Feeds On Human Blood 250
Build Your Own Open Source Twittering Power Meter 31
Companies Waste $2.8 Billion Per Year Powering Unused PCs 348
20 Years After Cold Fusion Debut, Another Team Claims Success 373
Smart Grid Computers Susceptible To Worm Attack 98
Building Your Own Solar Panel In the Garage 235
Shell Ditches Wind, Solar, and Hydro 883
Start-Up Genetically Modifies a Better Biofuel Bug 124
AMD — "We're Not Entirely Honest" About Batteries 154
How the Economy Is Changing Clean Energy 227
"Spin Battery" Effect Discovered 234
Powering Restaurants WIth Deep Fried Fuel 148
New Electrode Lets Batteries Charge In 10 Seconds 348
National Ignition Facility Fires 192-Beam Pulse 438
Solar Power Pre-Deployment To Afghanistan? 184
GM Cornered Into Defending the Volt 769
Scale Models Can "Compute" Casimir Forces 136
LEDs Lighting Up the African Darkness 182
Solar Panels Reach $1 a Watt 381
A New Way To Produce Hydrogen 204
Motor Made From Liquid Film 241
Sony To Unveil New Fuel-Cell Prototype 116
Optical Concentrator To Make Solar Power Cheaper 141
Space Based Solar Power Within a Decade? 371
Reclaiming Oil Rigs As Oceanic Eco-Resorts 124
MacBook's "Unremovable" Battery Easy To Remove 476
Stimulus Could Kickstart US Battery Industry 369
Handset Vendors Plug Micro-USB Charge Ports 363
MIT Team Creates Shock That Recharges Your Car 281
Scientists Harvest Nano-Power From Hamsters 90
UPS, Generators Join Servers For Boxed Data Centers 63
Norfolk Town's Schools First To Be Heated By Burning Cattle 83
Two Big Tests For Personal Rapid Transportation 299
DAM Pops Energy Star's Bubble 147
Why Sustainable Power Is Unsustainable 1108
Universal Power Adapter Struggling For Support 277
Oslo Buses to Run on Sewage 68
Wind Farms To Receive Future Wind Forecasts 57
US Becomes Top Wind Producer; Solar Next 388
Fusion-Fission System Burns Hot Radioactive Waste 432
Power In Scotland From Tides and Whiskey 170
Fujitsu To Show Off "Zero-Watt" PC At CeBIT 222
Cape Wind Ready To Bring First Offshore Wind Farm 147
Energy Star Program Needs an Overhaul 306
Intel Testing Solar Power For Data Centers 66
A Waste Gasification Plant In a Truck 148
Tapping the Earth For Home Heating and Cooling 215
Networked Fridges 'Negotiate' Electricity Use 217
DC Power Poised To Bring Savings To Datacenters 287
Switching To Solar Power — Six Months Later 591
PowerBeam Demos Wireless Electricity At CES 109
The Inexact Science of Carbon Neutrality 302
Distributed "Nuclear Batteries" the New Infrastructure Answer? 611