New material, modeling methods promise advances in energy storage
Work offers promise for lightweight materials for energy technologiesCredit: University of Houston The explosion of mobile electronic devices, electric vehicles, ...
Tag: Energy/Fuel (non-petroleum)
How efficient are solar power storage systems?
'Testbench' project improves quality of measurement results and facilitates comparisonCredit: Photo: Shutterstock/Victor Josan More and more photovoltaic systems are equipped ...
Scientific machine learning enables potential to design at ‘near-interactive speeds’
Researchers are developing deep learning methods to dramatically reduce the cost and turnaround of conceptual design computations for complex energy ...
Etching the road to a hydrogen economy using plasma jets
Scientists improve light-driven water-splitting to produce hydrogen by etching the reaction catalyst with plasma jets in solutionCredit: Tokyo University of ...
Double-sided solar panels that follow the sun prove most cost effective
Credit: Rodríguez-Gallegos et al./Joule Solar power systems with double-sided (bifacial) solar panels--which collect sunlight from two sides instead of one--and ...
Solar hydrogen production: Splitting water with UV is now at almost 100% quantum efficiency
Credit: Copyright © 2020 The Office of Public Relations, Shinshu University Pour yourself a glass of water and take a ...
A new strategy for the optimal electroreduction of Co2 to high-value products
Credit: KAIST Researchers suggest that modulation of local CO2 concentration improves the selectivity, conversion rate, and electrode stability, and shed ...
Breaking the mold: An unusual choice of material yields incredibly long-lasting batteries
Non-conductive silica could be key to realizing next-generation lithium-sulfur batteriesCredit: DGIST The tremendous increase in the use of mobile technology, ...
Science snapshots May 2020
Berkeley Lab news: changing forest structures, aging wind plants, fungi food choicesCredit: Vincent Wu/JGI The World's Forests Are Growing Younger ...
Get excited by neural networks
Credit: Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan - Researchers at the Institute of Industrial Science, The ...
Finding balance between green energy storage, harvesting
Three indicators will help researchers find the perfect size for renewable wind and solar energy storage facilities while optimizing energy ...
Smart farms of the future: Making bioenergy crops more environmentally friendly
Berkeley Lab launches three new projects to advance sustainable agricultural practicesCredit: Beatriz Moreno García Farmers have enough worries - between ...
Nanoparticles can make home refrigeration more accessible for low-income households
Credit: Photos supplied by Mr Taiwo O. Babarinde, University of Johannesburg. Power consumption of a home refrigerator can be cut ...
New NiMH batteries perform better when made from recycled old NiMH batteries
Credit: Photo: Niklas Björling A new method for recycling old batteries can provide better performing and cheaper rechargeable hydride batteries ...
Skoltech scientists get a sneak peek of a key process in battery ‘life’
Credit: Pavel Odinev / Skoltech Researchers from the Skoltech Center for Energy Science and Technology (CEST) visualized the formation of ...
New protocol for organic synthesis using organoboron compounds and visible-light
Credit: Kanazawa University Alkyl radicals are carbon radicals of normal chain and branched chain alkanes, available as reaction intermediates even ...
Renewable energy advance
UD researchers report new method for characterizing materials that might eventually help store energyCredit: Photo by Jon Cox and courtesy ...
Flow-through electrodes make hydrogen 50 times faster
Experiments find the sweet spot for surface area and bubbles to store energyCredit: Wiley Lab, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. -- ...
New system for widespread availability of green hydrogen
Credit: © RGH2 As an alternative propulsion technology in the transport sector, hydrogen is playing an important role in the ...
Capturing the coordinated dance between electrons and nuclei in a light-excited molecule
Revealing both sides of the story in a single experiment has been a grand scientific challengeCredit: Greg Stewart/SLAC National Accelerator ...