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Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Some really cool robots are underwater! Shashank Priya, associate professor in mechanical engineering in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech, explains the small robot jellyfish, Robojelly.
Tuesday, February 08, 2011
Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin's Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) are working to develop more efficient solar cells based on organic semiconductors. Their research will make solar cells much easier and cheaper to produce.
Tags: solar, Clean Tech, green energy, solar cells, Center for Nano- and Molecular Science and Technology, Energy Frontier Research Center, loren kaake, nanotechnology, semiconductors, xiaoyang zhu
Monday, January 10, 2011
The geothermal industry gets its first big lobbyist. Will this help expand on a lagging form of clean energy production?
Tags: Policy, Clean Tech, geothermal, politics, IDEA, Toronto, dan ellis, thermal, geothermal exchange organization
Planet Forward
Wednesday, August 29, 2018
Congratulations to our 2018-2019 team of Planet Forward Correspondents! Read below to learn more about the exceptional team of students selected, and be sure to click through to see their full profiles:
The UC Davis Renewable Energy Anaerobic Digester, which officially opened Earth Day, April 22, 2014, converts organic waste from campus and other sources into clean energy for the campus electrical grid. The anaerobic digestion technology used in the facility was invented by UC Davis professor Ruihong Zhang and licensed to Sacramento-based CleanWorld. (UC Davis)
Planet Forward Correspondent | University of Wisconsin-Madison
Monday, December 10, 2018
Next in our Tackling Food Waste series: What if you could take food waste and give it another life — or two? That's the idea behind the biodigester facility at UC Davis. University of Wisconsin-Madison's Peter Jurich reports.
Tags: woodland, davis, pfincali, agriculture, sustainability, Food Waste, biodigestion, anaerobic digester, fertilizer, synthetic fertilizer
The toxic slag pile leftover from smelting industries sits beside Marquette St. Photo by Stephanie Fox/Medill.
Northwestern University
Friday, December 01, 2017
The clean-up of toxic waste from a Superfund site in a village in Central Illinois has been virtually stagnant for almost 20 years. Read about the dynamics between the community and government in the clean-up process.