SwRI concept wins NREL energy storage prize
Approach aims to lower costs, construction time for building pumped storage reservoir damsCredit: Southwest Research Institute SAN ANTONIO -- Oct. ...
Tag: Energy/Fuel (non-petroleum)
Low temperature district heating: New plants for eight European cities
Eurac Research is leading a €15 million European project that will build innovative district heating networks and study business models ...
‘Artificial leaf’ successfully produces clean gas
Credit: Virgil Andrei A widely-used gas that is currently produced from fossil fuels can instead be made by an 'artificial ...
Argonne multidisciplinary team develops probe for battery research: Strength in numbers
Credit: Argonne National Laboratory Argonne team develops a powerful technique for probing in three dimensions the crystalline structure of cathode ...
Stanford researchers create new catalyst that can turn carbon dioxide into fuels
Credit: Mark Golden Imagine grabbing carbon dioxide from car exhaust pipes and other sources and turning this main greenhouse gas ...
It’s electric: WVU breaks new ground in developing transportable, carbon-neutral energy source
Credit: Paige Nesbit/West Virginia University Electricity is something we rarely think about -- we expect it to be there, flowing ...
Why modified carbon nanotubes can help the reproducibility problem
Credit: Tokyo Tech Our search for sustainable energy generation technology has led researchers to investigate various materials and their combinations ...
A new stable form of plutonium discovered at the ESRF
Credit: Kristina Kvashnina An international team of scientists, led by the Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), have found a new compound ...
Energy flow in the nano range
Credit: Images: Björn Kriete (l.) / Stefan Mueller (r.) Plants and bacteria lead the way: They can capture the energy ...
From waste to wealth: Researchers to transform anaerobic digestion
Multi-institutional team awarded $5.1 million by Department of Energy to tackle the organic waste problemCredit: Walter Scott, Jr. College of ...
New catalyst would boost biomass conversion to fuels, chemicals
Cerium oxide catalyst will remove oxygen, reduce processing requirementsCredit: University of Houston Efforts to use biomass, including wood and agricultural ...
Two Harvard researchers receive the 2019 Eni Award, the ‘Nobel Prize in Energy’
Their invention could help the energy industry prioritize renewable sources like solar and windCredit: Image courtesy of Roy Gordon On ...
Reducing open-circuit voltage loss in organic solar cells
Credit: NINS/IMS The power conversion efficiencies of organic solar cells (OSCs) based on blends of electron donor (D) and acceptor ...
Study shows a much cheaper catalyst can generate hydrogen in a commercial device
Replacing today's expensive catalysts could bring down the cost of producing the gas for fuel, fertilizer and clean energy storageCredit: ...
Black holes stunt growth of dwarf galaxies
UC Riverside astronomers find large-scale winds associated with active black holes in small galaxies suppress star formationCredit: HST/NASA/ESA. RIVERSIDE, Calif. ...
How preprocessing methods affect the conversion efficiency of biomass energy production
Credit: College of ACES, University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. ¬- Research on energy production from biomass usually focuses on the ...
New material captures carbon dioxide
The captured CO2 can be converted into useful organic materialsCredit: Illustration by Mindy Takamiya A new material that can selectively ...
What happens as solid-state batteries begin to fail?
Researchers say $1 million project will improve understanding, optimizationCredit: University of Houston Solid-state lithium batteries have generated interest because they ...
Study has wide-reaching impact on safe storage of nuclear energy waste
Credit: Virginia Tech Society's demand for sustainable energy sources continues to grow, nuclear energy is seen as a viable and ...
Watching energy transport through biomimetic nanotubes
Credit: Dina Maniar Scientists from the University of Groningen (the Netherlands) and the University of Würzburg (Germany) have investigated a ...