Connecticut boasts the largest concentration of fuel-cell companies in the United States, including leading fuel-cell manufacturers UTC Power, Proton OnSite and Fuel Cell Energy.
Frankly, I believe that solid oxide fuel cells are the better technology in the long run, but Fuel Cell Energy owns 43% of the shares of VERSA Power that also makes solid oxide fuel cells.
The company can also lean on a trade group, the U.S. Fuel Cell Council, whose members range from specialty companies like Fuel Cell Energy and Ballard Power Systems to giants like General Electric and United Technologies.
His approach is to approve of studies that appear to offer some glimmer that cell phone energy is carcinogenic and at the same time to find fault with studies that show no evidence of an effect.
Solar-energy cell sales also fell due to weak demand in Europe amid its financial crisis.
When the light hits the cytochromes inside the fibroblasts' mitochondria, it stimulates the cell's energy transport system.
Chemo-radiotherapy specifically degrades muscle mass, and depresses the function of mitochondria, the tiny structures that act as the boiler room of the cell, generating energy.
And if enough mitochondria are knocked out, a cell that uses a lot of energy (a nerve cell, for example) may not be able to carry out its activities properly.
What the researchers did was give rats two substances found in foods: Omega-3 fatty acids, a kind of fat that the body can't make enough of on its own, and uridine, one of the building blocks of DNA, which promotes a cell's energy-making process.
Robert K. Adair who is professor emeritus of physics at Yale points out that the energy from a cell phone is simply too low in comparison to the endogenous energy of the molecules in the cells in our body to possibly have any effect.
When illuminated, these "opsin" proteins change the flow of electrically charged ions within the cell, to help the cell turn light into energy or as a sensory cue.
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The Federal Communications Commission limits cell phone radio frequency energy emissions, called the specific absorption rate (SAR), at 1.6 watts per kilogram, as measured over one gram of tissue.
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This, in turn, results in production of mitochondria, thereby increasing the production of energy in a cell.
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About one in 200 children are born with faulty mitochondria - the tiny power stations which provide energy to every cell in the body.
The short massage boosted the production of mitochondria, the energy factory of the cell, among other effects.
The UCLA team describes a new kind of polymer solar cell (PSC) that produces energy by absorbing mainly infrared light, not visible light, making the cells nearly 70% transparent to the human eye.
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The goal, according to IBM, is to create solar cells that convert 15% of the energy that hits each cell from sunlight into useable electricity, up from a range of between 6% and 12% today.
On the other hand, the list suggests that if you own stocks in hospital operators, generic drug makers, builders of cell-phone towers, alternative energy sources or domestic auto companies, then happy days are here again.
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Many companies are working on coming up with better materials for the cathode or the anode in order to increase the energy density of the battery cell.
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The next is that run through a fuel cell, hydrogen is an efficient source of energy.
It is powered by a hydrogen fuel-cell engine, which converts hydrogen gas into energy.
Using tin can increase the energy storage capacity of a battery cell by nearly three times, he said.
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Bluetooth low energy runs off a small coin cell battery, lasts about a year, and allows a small tag to send data to a phone.
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Concerns exist over the application of solar energy in portable devices such as cell phones, which are typically stored in pockets or purses and therefore are not constantly exposed to light.
The watch is powered by a regular button cell, but thanks to the low-energy design, the watch can go two years between battery changes, assuming that the Bluetooth function is used for about 12 hours per day.
Scientists have known that other materials can hold more lithium ions and increase the amount of energy that can be packed into a cell.
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Morgan Stanley has raised money for Tesla Motors, a producer of electric cars, and it has invested in Bloom Energy, an innovator in fuel-cell technology.
Energy agreed to build a fuel-cell manufacturing plant in Delaware.
While the process of discovery and invention always includes large doses of failure, energy policy is different than say, cell phones or VCRs, since more public money, time and effort are spent on them.
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