Just the tonic! How an afternoon tipple made from peas could help save the rainforest
Credit: Professor Williams, Trinity College Dublin It's the season for a cold, refreshing gin and tonic. We may question the ...
Tag: Energy/Fuel (non-petroleum)
How to finance solar power
Solar finance expert Jenny Chase explains how business is as important as technology in making sustainable solar power an affordable ...
Experiments show dramatic increase in solar cell output
Method for collecting two electrons from each photon could break through theoretical solar-cell efficiency limit CAMBRIDGE, MA -- In any ...
Activity of fuel cell catalysts doubled
Modelling leads to the optimum size for platinum fuel cell catalystsCredit: Astrid Eckert / TUM An interdisciplinary research team at ...
Research on sustainable conversion of lignn into valuable chemical compounds funded
Siegfried Waldvogel is coordinating an EU project to convert waste into sustainable compounds in collaboration with an industrial consortiumCredit: Alexander ...
The energy system of the future and Power-to-X
Credit: Paul Scherrer Institute/Jörg Roth In a joint research project of five Swiss competence centres for energy research, scientists of ...
AI-designed heat pumps consume less energy
Credit: Alain Herzog/ EPFL Researchers at EPFL have developed a method that uses artificial intelligence to design next-generation heat-pump compressors. ...
Tiny supersonic jet injector accelerates nanoscale additive manufacturing
Credit: Matthew R. Henry By energizing precursor molecules using a tiny, high-energy supersonic jet of inert gas, researchers have dramatically ...
Tiny granules can help bring clean and abundant fusion power to Earth
Credit: Elle Starkman Beryllium, a hard, silvery metal long used in X-ray machines and spacecraft, is finding a new role ...
Getting more heat out of sunlight
Material developed at MIT can passively capture solar heat for home heating or industrial applicationsCredit: Lin Zhao CAMBRIDGE, MA -- ...
Bionic catalysts to produce clean energy
Credit: © 2019 KAUST Mixing microbes with carbon nanomaterials could help the transition to renewable energy. KAUST research shows microbes ...
Story tips from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, July 2019
Credit: Adam Malin/Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Dept. of Energy Materials--Soft drink science Oak Ridge National Laboratory has teamed with ...
A cold-tolerant electrolyte for lithium-metal batteries emerges in San Diego
New twist in the race to replace the graphite anode for better rechargeable batteriesCredit: UC San Diego Jacobs School of ...
Danish researchers create worldwide solar energy model
Photovoltaic installations will have a huge impact on future energy systems, so it is crucial to know their performance at ...
‘Committed’ CO2 emissions jeopardize international climate goals, UCI-led study finds
Existing, planned fossil fuel-burning infrastructure must be retired early, replaced Irvine, Calif. - The nations that have signed agreements to ...
Space Weather causes years of radiation damage to satellites using electric propulsion
The use of electric propulsion for raising satellites into geostationary orbit can result in significant solar cell degradation according to ...
New grant supports promising research in solar energy
UD's Ujjwal Das and collaborators work to improve photovoltage technologyCredit: Photo by Kathy F. Atkinson In their quest to improve ...
NIST presents first real-world test of new smokestack emissions sensor designs
Credit: Sean Kelley/NIST In collaboration with industry, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have completed the ...
Solar energy could turn the Belt and Road Initiative green
Credit: Zhan Wang The region covered by the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has significant potential to be powered by ...
First snapshots of trapped CO2 molecules shed new light on carbon capture
A new twist on cryo-EM imaging reveals what's going on inside MOFs, highly porous nanoparticles with big potential for storing ...