Daily Archives: November 18, 2011

Chu takes heat on Solyndra at hearing

Chu takes heat on Solyndra at hearing

Steven Chu defended his decision to approve a large loan guarantee to bankrupt solar company Solyndra today as Republican investigators pressed the Energy Secretary on whether politics played any role. Chu appeared today before the Republican-led House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations to explain his role in Solyndra, the failed solar company that received a … Continued

Hybrid solar-wind power connects rural Navajos

Hybrid solar-wind power connects rural Navajos

The Johnson family’s hybrid solar-wind generator, one of about 200 distributed energy systems installed on the Navajo Reservation where about 18,000 people don’t have electricity service. (Credit: Martin LaMonica/CNET) NAVAJO RESERVATION, N.M.–Power transmission lines run a few hundred yards behind the Johnson family home here, but it took an off-grid solar and wind generator to … Continued

This app helps heal bad burns

This app helps heal bad burns

Ph.D. student Chris Seaton, who studies computer science at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom, witnessed firsthand the horrors of serious burns while deployed in Afghanistan, Kenya, and elsewhere during his four years as a captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps. Mersey Burns screenshot.(Credit: University of Manchester) So with the help of … Continued