http://news.discovery.com/contributors/alyssa-danigelis/ Articles by author Alyssa Danigelis en-us Copyright 2008, Discovery Communications Inc. http://news.discovery.com/images/icons/rss-feed-logo.png http://news.discovery.com/contributors/alyssa-danigelis/ 144 19 Mon Nov 23 2009 00:10:02 GMT Mon Nov 23 2009 00:10:02 GMT 1440 http://news.discovery.com/tech/serving-up-solar-tech-treats.html 2d8f2547-0258-47e1-bafb-2f73a0275481 Green Tech Nanomaterials Nanotech Solar Power Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:33:30 EST Serving Up Solar Tech Treats Think thin-film solar is still eons away from ubiquity? Think again. Seattle-based company LivinGreen has some sweet solar tech that could make manufacturing solar cells cheaper and easier. Dye sensitized solar cells work like photosynthesis in plants. A nanoparticle dye ... http://news.discovery.com/tech/saving-the-ocean-with-robots.html 5514d775-5e47-421d-8e6e-be81040dc213 Conservation Green Tech Robots Satellites Water Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:18:01 EST Saving the Ocean With Robots Figuring out where to designate marine protected areas so fish populations can bounce back sounds simple. Heck, we just found water on the moon! But it's no easy task, which is why we're going to need water-ready robots. In California, ... http://news.discovery.com/tech/bringing-order-to-solars-wild-west.html a30417dd-1faf-4073-837c-87b8b13d4df8 Energy Green Tech Renewable Energy Semiconductors Solar Power Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:27:35 EST Bringing Order to Solar's Wild West Solar power has been around for decades so I was surprised to discover that the industry lacks some standards. If the solar industry is still a Wild West, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory might just be the straight-shooting sheriff. NREL, ... http://news.discovery.com/tech/wheat-waste-hitches-a-ride.html d928567a-4575-438d-b608-9be9db340678 Cars Green Tech Materials Waste and Recycling Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:00:01 EST Wheat Waste Hitches a Ride Wheat growing and processing creates wheat straw--a byproduct that's usually discarded. Boo! Fortunately, this straw just hit the lottery and will start a new life reinforcing resin parts in Ford vehicles. The automaker collaborated with academic researchers from the University ... http://news.discovery.com/tech/bringing-solar-inspired-tech-home.html c2862576-b2a8-438b-b997-4b41bb549679 Energy Efficiency Green Building Green Tech Renewable Energy Solar Power Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:08:34 EST Bringing Solar-Inspired Tech Home Recently I had an opportunity to visit Washington, DC for the Solar Decathlon--an intense competition where student teams from around the world are given enough dough from the U.S. Department of Energy to build innovative solar-powered homes. The houses are ... http://news.discovery.com/tech/weve-got-some-new-digs.html 8a917d50-6f04-42d8-ab15-f90500a28396 Design Green Tech Internet Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:35:20 EST We've Got Some New Digs This day has finally come! After months of hard work and anticipation, we have a new dedicated Discovery News site. YES! Why should you be as excited as I am? Because you love Discovery and you love news. Plus you ... http://news.discovery.com/tech/building-a-better-mosquito-trap.html 6ac6e08c-f316-4993-9487-1d6883e65ec9 Chemistry Green Tech Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:28:12 EST Building a Better Mosquito Trap UC Davis scientists who have been sussing out mosquitoes’ sniffers have made a discovery that could lead to really killer bug traps. Chemical ecologists Walter Leal and Zain Syed identified a chemical called nonanal in humans—and, crucially, birds—that serves as ... http://news.discovery.com/tech/supersurface-could-shrink-power-plants.html 4d54490f-ef0c-41e3-9395-72c674d89a3d Energy Efficiency Green Science Green Tech Materials Science Nanotech Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:23:13 EST Supersurface Could Shrink Power Plants Sounds trippy, but it's true: mushrooms and lotus leaves are the inspiration for a superhydrophobic surface created by Duke University scientists that has the potential to make power plants super-efficient. "In power plants, the majority of the space is taken ... http://news.discovery.com/tech/when-is-bamboorayon.html 858032f0-04cc-4034-acf8-389c007acfb2 Green Tech Materials Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:39:33 EST When Is Bamboo...Rayon? I've had the bamboo fiber pulled over my eyes. Following a settlement with a clothing maker, the Federal Trade Commission announced that fabrics made from processed bamboo can't be pedaled as green--they're as synthetic as the rayon shirt hiding in ... http://news.discovery.com/tech/traffic-control-for-turtles.html 68fe95cf-55e9-4c46-8194-d19e5ff0e4c9 Conservation Green Tech Robots Satellites Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:37:47 EST Traffic Control for Turtles Scientists have been tagging turtles for a little while to see where they go, but a new combined effort could mean fewer turtle tragedies in the open water. Juvenile loggerhead turtles, which are a threatened species, can unintentionally become bycatch ... http://news.discovery.com/tech/scaling-up-saharan-solar.html a05643dc-0bf9-4299-a20b-c4e43af8811b Alternative Power Sources Energy Green Tech Renewable Energy Solar Power Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:06:18 EST Scaling Up Saharan Solar The idea has been thrown around for a while: Let's put a bunch of mirrors--the most ever!--in the desert to provide massive amounts of electricity to faraway places. A newly-formalized consortium is going to do just that, in the Sahara ... http://news.discovery.com/tech/rounding-out-shelter-design.html f30364fc-726f-43cc-adf8-5bd9fd421ae0 Design Green Building Green Tech Waste and Recycling Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:00:43 EDT Rounding Out Shelter Design Recently the winner of a shelter design contest organized by the Guggenheim Museum and Google's 3-D modeling arm SketchUp was announced--a Danish tidal sea space. But a finalist's garbage-transportation shelter really captured my imagination. The Design It: Shelter Competition asked ... http://news.discovery.com/tech/tsunami-proof-buildings-gaining-ground.html 613bfbee-81d2-4319-bfaf-0eebf6ee79b6 Architecture Buildings and Structures Design Engineering Green Tech Urban Planning Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:10:54 EDT Tsunami-Proof Buildings Gaining Ground Geotechnical engineer Yumei Wang, who works for Oregon state, warns that it's only a matter of time before a tsunami hits the Pacific Northwest. Yikes. I mean, YIKES!!! Fortunately for the vulnerable populace, Wang has a plan. She proposes that ... http://news.discovery.com/tech/german-solar-cube-house-wins-dc-decathlon.html 2b8c8833-866d-4a83-939f-c9449a236588 Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:10:57 EDT German Solar Cube House Wins DC Decathlon On the final, rainy, day of judging at the fourth Solar Decathlon in Washington, DC, I found myself busting a move with the German team in their solar house. Maybe that was what pushed them over the top. Today, the ... http://news.discovery.com/tech/cocoa-and-veggie-car-ready-to-race.html 024666f7-dc26-4442-b631-d38bc318e859 Alternative Fuels Cars Green Tech Materials Renewable Energy Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:35:44 EDT Cocoa and Veggie Car Ready to Race A few weeks ago, researchers at the University of Warwick in Coventry, UK, unveiled a crazy-green Formula 3 racing car constructed with root veggies and fueled by a cocoa blend. This month, the WorldFirst car faces its first race. You ... http://news.discovery.com/tech/what-a-great-vintage-of-hydrogen-you-have.html 37f78c96-7877-4098-b147-09d18dcc80c2 Alternative Fuels Alternative Power Sources Food Sources Fuel Cells Green Tech Waste and Recycling Water Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:34:35 EDT What a Great Vintage of Hydrogen You Have Over the summer, Penn State scientists developed a microbial fuel cell in the lab that uses bacteria to desalinate waste water and generate electricity, methane, or hydrogen. Now the method is taking root in wine country. When the Napa Wine ... http://news.discovery.com/tech/klymit-takes-control-of-the-elements.html 0b4dfca0-ad0b-465e-9045-f96de25ff1f0 Chemistry Green Science Green Tech Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:33:51 EDT Klymit Takes Control of the Elements Early today the Ogden, Utah-based company Klymit ships out its first batch of adjustable insulation vests. The key elements? Noble gases. President and CEO Nate Alder came up with the idea while still a student at Brigham Young University after ... http://news.discovery.com/tech/raise-the-roof-tiles-change-with-the-seasons.html 7cd751f7-4e4e-4980-94f4-406722fa000b Buildings and Structures Energy Efficiency Green Building Green Tech Materials Materials Science Polymers Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:32:06 EDT Raise the Roof: Tiles Change With the Seasons Looking at a sea of black-topped roofs during a city summer is maddening. They should be painted white! No wonder we're scorching! Then winter rolls around. Now scientists bring us roof tiles that go both ways. A team of seven ... http://news.discovery.com/tech/engineering-an-earth-airbag.html 240f54a5-4d7f-45fa-959d-0c52fdfd460d Carbon Capture Carbon Emissions Engineering Green Science Green Tech Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:16:04 EDT Engineering an Earth Airbag If global warming causes all hell to break loose on our home planet, I'd feel better knowing humanity has a plan. A new geoengineering institute in the United Kingdom could help figure out one that doesn't give us all the ... http://news.discovery.com/tech/superscanner-is-superfast-and-superfriendly.html a312f6dd-5aa2-4a0e-926b-a5612bc8931c Fri, 02 Oct 2009 12:11:35 EDT Superscanner is Superfast and Superfriendly About a month ago, the University of Nottingham got the world's most advanced CT scanner with X-ray and 3-D imaging capabilities. Since then, scientists there have been loading all kinds of things into the machine. Sacha Mooney, an associate professor ...