UCLA Develops Building Material Using Released Power-Plant Carbon

UCLA Develops Building Material Using Released Power-Plant Carbon

What does man's carbon footprint into the atmosphere and the cement/concrete sidewalk beneath your feet have in common? A lot it seems, and a team of Researchers at UCLA have a plan to capture carbon from power plant smokestacks and use it to create a new building...

Canadian Team Harnesses Energy from Chewing

Canadian Team Harnesses Energy from Chewing

Remember your mom telling you to make sure you chewed your food throughly? It's seems that mother did know best since it turns out that chewing can do much more then power your metabolism. Drs Aidin Delnavaz and Jeremie Voix, mechanical engineers at the Ecole de...

UCLA Develops Building Material Using Released Power-Plant Carbon

MIT Changes the Way We Store Heat

What does the accompanying image bring to mind? Layers of carved chocolate? How about a block of clay waiting to become a piece of art? Bet you didn't guess it's the future of 24 hour winter warmth thanks to the guys at MIT and a new exciting little molecule...

Li-Fi to Replace Wi-Fi?

Li-Fi to Replace Wi-Fi?

Stamping your feet when there's no Wi-Fi access around? Professor Harald Hass wants to show you the light and free you from that Wi-Fi hunt with Li-Fi!LiFi is the use of the visible light portion of the electromagnetic spectrum to transmit information at very high...

UCLA Develops Building Material Using Released Power-Plant Carbon

Faraday Future Unveils Electric Race Car

2016 is getting off to a very fast, (speeds of 200 mph fast), start at this years CES in Las Vegas, with the unveiling of Faraday Future's electric race car FFZERO1.The team at Faraday Future is serious about supplanting fossil fuels with cleaner electric power....

ERA Science Announces Energy Storage Focus for 2014 Prize

ERA Science Announces Energy Storage Focus for 2014 Prize

We at Environmental Research Advocates are excited to announce that the focus of the 2014 Energy Prize will be in the field of energy stoarge research.We, along woth the world's science and energy communities, believe that finding a more efficient method of energy...

ERA Science Board Member Mentors Chemistry Breakthrough

ERA Science Board Member Mentors Chemistry Breakthrough

ERA Science Board member Flemming Besenbacher, a professor at Denmark’s Aarhus University, played a pivotal role in the breakthrough development of an environmentally friendly method of producing a molecular hydrogen compound used to refine crude oil into gasoline....

Top Innovations in Solar Technology

Top Innovations in Solar Technology

The future of innovation in renewable energy technology has us excited at Environmental Research Advocates! Here we share a few important developments in solar technology research and design to keep an eye on in 2014 and beyond. These technologies can help make solar...

Solar Energy Cheat Sheet

Solar Energy Cheat Sheet

As solar energy becomes more and more cost-competitive with oil as an energy source, we at Environmental Research Advocates are very excited to see the incredible strides being made by solar scientists and engineers.  For those of you who are less-familiar with...

Study Reveals Imminent Climate Change Impacts

Study Reveals Imminent Climate Change Impacts

We at ERA Science are dedicated to promoting environmental research and technology, most of which will prevent or lessen long-term climate change and its negative impacts on the earth. The apparent increase in natural disasters in the past few years, however, such as...

Graphene Supercapacitors Could Revolutionize Electric Vehicles

Graphene Supercapacitors Could Revolutionize Electric Vehicles

We at Environmental Research Advocates are excited by the potential implementation of graphene in renewable energy technologies.The carbon-based super-material is making technology news yet again, as scientists in Korea claim they have developed a graphene...

Climate Scientists Call for Moratorium on California Fracking

Climate Scientists Call for Moratorium on California Fracking

ERA Science Board Member and Director of the Climate Institute Michael MacCracken, joined by 19 other US climate scientists, signed an open letter to Gov. Jerry Brown, calling for a moratorium on hydraulic fracking in California. The state is a leader in efforts to...

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