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New battery design could give electric vehicles a jolt

New battery design could give electric vehicles a jolt
A radically new approach to the design of batteries, developed by researchers at MIT, could provide a lightweight and inexpensive alternative to existing batteries for electric vehicles and the power grid. The technology could even make “refueling” such batteries as quick and easy as pumping gas into a conventional car. The new battery relies on an innovative architecture called a semi-solid flow cell, in which solid particles are suspended in a carrier liquid and pumped through the system. In this design, the battery’s active components — the positive and negative electrodes, or cathodes and anodes — are composed of particles suspended in a liquid electrolyte. These two different suspensions are pumped through systems separated by a filter, such as a thin porous membrane. The work was carried out by Mihai Duduta ’10 and graduate student Bryan Ho, under the leadership of professors of materials science W. The team set out to “reinvent the rechargeable battery,” Chiang says.

What's The Greenest Insulation? It's Getting Harder To Decide Every Day Screen shot from Youtube video What's wrong with this picture? It is in a video promoting Ultra-touch denim insulation, showing an installer pushing a full-size batt into an irregular cavity. Either the insulation isn't going to work because it is compressed or it is going to pop the drywall right off the wall. The installer also isn't wearing a mask, even though the company's material safety data sheet recommends an OSHA approved air mask. Even though I got seriously schooled by an Ultratouch distributor at a home show last year, I still have problems with batt insulation; it is rarely properly installed around electric wires and other irregularities and does not seal as well as sprays. Post consumer recycled jeans are not good for the chemically sensitive, for whom this is a prime product. More on Denim Insulation:What's The Greenest Insulation? Is Sprayed Polyurethane Insulation Safe? Polystyrene Insulation Doesn't Belong in Green Building Fiberglass: Is Pink Really Green?

isc Home | SANS Internet Storm Center; Cooperative Network Security Community - Internet Security Wood gas vehicles: firewood in the fuel tank Wood gasification is a proces whereby organic material is converted into a combustible gas under the influence of heat - the process reaches a temperature of 1,400 °C (2,550 °F). The first use of wood gasification dates back to 1870s, when it was used as a forerunner of natural gas for street lighting and cooking. In the 1920s, German engineer Georges Imbert developed a wood gas generator for mobile use. Second World War The technology became commonplace in many European countries during the Second World War, as a consequence of the rationing of fossil fuels. A network of some 3,000 "petrol stations" was set up, where drivers could stock up on firewood. In 1942 (when the technology had not yet reached the height of its popularity), there were about 73,000 producer gas vehicles in Sweden, 65,000 in France, 10,000 in Denmark, 9,000 in both Austria and Norway, and almost 8,000 in Switzerland. Research programme in Sweden Fuel "Producing wood gas is not that hard", says John. Range Trailer

Using suphp To Secure A Shared Server The challenge with securing a shared hosting server is how to secure the website from attack both from the outside and from the inside. PHP has built-in features to help, but ultimately it s the wrong place to address the problem. Apache has built-in features too, but the performance cost of these features is prohibitive. This has created a gap that a number of third-party solutions have attempted to fill. One of the oldest of these is suphp, created by Sebastian Marsching. suphp: Running PHP As A Specified UserInstalling suphpConfiguring ApacheSome BenchmarksOther ConsiderationsConclusions suphp: Running PHP As A Specified User Like Apache’s own suexec, suphp is a solution that allows PHP to run as the user and group that owns any particular website on a shared hosting server. suphp consists of two components: mod_suphp, an Apache module that replaces mod_phpsuphp, a setuid binary that replaces Apache’s suexec It relies on PHP/CGI having been installed onto the server first. Installing suphp

Let Plastic2Oil Turn Your Discarded Plastics Into Fuel Community Help | Generating a Certificate Signing Requ... To complete your online request form for an SSL, you need to generat a key pair and a Certificate Signing Request (CSR). Follow these instructions to generate them for your website. Java 2 SDK 1.2 or above must be installed before you can generate your CSR. Once installed, you can use the "keytool" command to create your key pair and CSR. To Generate the Key Pair For the purposes of this article, we are using PuTTY as our Secure Shell (SSH) client, and we are running Tomcat on a Linux based server. To log in to the server's terminal SSH, double click on your servers SSH client.Enter the Host Name (or IP address), and then the Port the server is using.Select SSH as the Connection type, and then click OpenAt the SSH prompt, enter the server's username, and then press Enter on your keyboard.Enter the server's password, and then press Enter. To Generate a CSR For more information on how to request a certificate in our online request form, see Request an SSL certificate

Tour of the First PassivHaus in UK Photo: B. Alter This lovely looking Victorian house in west London seems deceptively straightforward except for a tiny plaque on the front door. It notes that this is the second house in the UK to reach PassivHaus standards. And that is no mean feat. Last year Lloyd outlined the challenges of bringing high environmental standards such as PassivHaus to this heritage house. Photo: B. Tom Pakenham, creator and owner of Green Tomato Cars ( a green mini-cab firm) has renovated this house to PassivHaus standards. The year long conversion is finished now, and as can be seen, it is a beautiful, light and airy house and a showcase for people and architects wanting to have a green home. The essence of PassivHaus-ing is insulation. Edward Borgstein, an engineer at Green Tomato led a group of architects (and one non-technological person--this TreeHugger) around the house and outlined the steps of the renovation in great detail. And what a job. Photo: B.Alter: Heat Extractor Photo: B. Photo: B.

Community Help | SSL Certificate Renewal - Tomcat 4.x/... After we approve your certificate renewal request, you can download your SSL and intermediate certificate. For more information, see Downloading an SSL Certificate. You must install both files on your Web server. You can also download the intermediate certificate here. Follow the instructions below to download and install signed certificate and intermediate certificates on your Web server. Note that Java 2 SDK 1.2 or above must be installed as the following describes how to install a certificate using keytool. Installation Option One: Installing SSL Certificate and CA Bundle (gd_bundle.crt) Implementing a PKCS12 Keystore Before you install your SSL certificate you must download our root certificate bundle (repository. Use the following OpenSSL command to combine the ca bundle (gd_bundle.crt) and your SSL certificate: openssl pkcs12 -export -chain -CAfile gd_bundle.crt -in Updating the server.xml Configuration File Open the server.xml file. Restart Tomcat. Root: Installing SSL Certificate

Vortex Filters Organic Fertilizer Dispensers | The Urban Farming Guys transcription of “Vortex Filter DIY — Organic Fertilizer on Demand” video..by The Urban Farming Guys.. These guys right here are our vortex filters. Retail, they’d be about $4,000 apiece…DIY version, about $100..You might be able to do it for cheaper. We’ve got a 55-gallon drum, with a cone built into it, down into a shower drain. Out here, you can pull off your fertilizer every day for your garden. I’ll show you about that. We’re pulling off a pretty incredible fertilizer. Stage One, you wanna settle out as much of the solids as you can before you send it to your mechanical filter so you don’t have to change your filter pads all the time. Stage Two, whatever solids sneak by get caught in four filter pads so that the only thing left to filter now is the ammonia. Stage Three, is the biological filter. Stage Four, the plants use the nitrates & send it back clean. & you can do this on a much simpler level. Alright, we make our vortex filters out of 55-gallon drums.

Community Help | Installing an SSL Certificate in Tomc... When you request an SSL certificate, you must provide a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) from your server. The CSR includes your public key, and must contain the same details as the online request form in your account. After your request is vetted and your certificate is issued, download and install all of the provided files to complete the installation. These steps describe how to install a certificate using keytool, so you must have Java 2 SDK 1.2 or above installed on your server. Generating a Keystore and CSR in Tomcat Using Keytool, follow these steps to generate a keystore and CSR on your server. To Generate a Keystore and CSR in Tomcat Enter the following command into keytool to create a keystore:keytool -keysize 2048 -genkey -alias tomcat -keyalg RSA -keystore tomcat.keystoreEnter a Password. For more information about completing the online request form, see Request an SSL certificate. After you submit the application, we begin vetting your request. Installing Your SSL in Tomcat

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