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Tag: ENERGY/FUEL (NON-PETROLEUM)
Big plans to save the planet depend on nanoscopic materials improving energy storage
Drexel researchers lead international report on future of nanomaterials for energy storage
Niobium used as catalyst in fuel cell
Glycerol fuel cell can replace batteries in cell phones and laptops, and could be used in future to run electric cars and supply power to homes
Climate change reassessment prompts call for a ‘more sober’ discourse
An international research team has called for a more sober discourse around climate change prospects, following an extensive reassessment of climate change’s progress and its mitigation. They argue that climate change models have understated potential warming’s speed and runaway potential,…
Princeton scientists discover surprising quantum effect in an exotic superconductor
Study explores how superconductivity forms in iron-based materials
Illinois researcher’s theory of pore-scale transport to enable improved flow batteries
Redox flow batteries are an emerging technology for electrochemical energy storage that could help enhance the use of power produced by renewable energy resources. These power resources are inherently irregular in their supply, which doesn’t typically align with demand on…
$2 million DOE grant supports Lehigh researchers building thermal battery
Interdisciplinary team to develop innovative approach to thermal energy storage for more flexible, efficient power plants
Li-ion battery components to be printed on an inkjet printer
Researchers are developing a technology for printing the electrodes for miniature li-ion batteries by an inkjet printer.
University of Delaware startup awarded $3.4M in Department of Energy funding
Funding will help advance and commercialize a new class of polymer membranes to make fuels cells much more economical
New hybrid device can both capture and store solar energy
Device offers a new avenue for capitalizing on abundant solar energy
Researchers design an improved pathway to carbon-neutral plastics
Researchers from U of T Engineering and Caltech have designed a system that transforms renewable electricity and waste CO2 into one of the world’s most widely-used commodity chemicals
New report: The impact of energy booms on local workers
A new IZA World of Labor report publishing today finds energy booms create a broad set of benefits for local workers in the short term including lower unemployment and higher wages. But there are externalities to consider and the long…
Blowing bubbles: PPPL scientist confirms way to launch current in fusion plasmas
An obstacle to generating fusion reactions inside facilities called tokamaks is that producing the current in plasma that helps create confining magnetic fields happens in pulses. Such pulses, generated by an electromagnet that runs down the center of the tokamak,…
A four-way switch promises greater tunability of layered materials
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Nov. 18, 2019–A scientific team from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Vanderbilt University has made the first experimental observation of a material phase that had been predicted but never seen. The newly discovered…
New assessment finds EU electricity decarbonization discourse in need of overhaul
It’s well known that the EU is focusing its efforts on decarbonizing its economy. In many respects, Germany’s Energiewende personifies the poster child of that effort. Unfortunately, substantial investments in the Energiewende have not yet yielded significant reductions in GHG…
Blowing bubbles: PPPL scientist confirms way to launch current in fusion plasmas
An obstacle to generating fusion reactions inside facilities called tokamaks is that producing the current in plasma that helps create confining magnetic fields happens in pulses. Such pulses, generated by an electromagnet that runs down the center of the tokamak,…
A four-way switch promises greater tunability of layered materials
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Nov. 18, 2019–A scientific team from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Vanderbilt University has made the first experimental observation of a material phase that had been predicted but never seen. The newly discovered…
New assessment finds EU electricity decarbonization discourse in need of overhaul
It’s well known that the EU is focusing its efforts on decarbonizing its economy. In many respects, Germany’s Energiewende personifies the poster child of that effort. Unfortunately, substantial investments in the Energiewende have not yet yielded significant reductions in GHG…
Atomically dispersed Ni is coke-resistant for dry reforming of methane
Dry reforming of methane (DRM) is the process of converting methane (CH4) and carbon dioxide (CO2) into synthesis gas (syngas). Since CO2 and CH4 are the two most important atmospheric greenhouse gases (GHGs), as well as abundant and low-cost carbon…
Turning waste heat into hydrogen fuel
Using waste heat helps cut cost of producing hydrogen
Lehigh engineers designing a more efficient tidal turbine with NSF grant
Arindam Banerjee’s lab uses innovative active grid turbulence generator to mimic water conditions of Verdant Power’s Roosevelt Island Tidal Energy (RITE) Project
Drexel researchers create and stabilize pure polymeric nitrogen using plasma
Producing polymeric nitrogen at near-ambient conditions is a new trick for liquid plasma
Storing energy in hydrogen 20 times more effective using platinum-nickel catalyst
Catalysts accelerate chemical reactions, but the widely used metal platinum is scarce and expensive. Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), together with Chinese, Singaporean and Japanese researchers, have now developed an alternative with a 20x higher activity: a catalyst…
Researchers generate terahertz laser with laughing gas
Device may enable ‘”T-ray vision’ and better wireless communication
Lehigh engineers designing a more efficient tidal turbine with NSF grant
Arindam Banerjee’s lab uses innovative active grid turbulence generator to mimic water conditions of Verdant Power’s Roosevelt Island Tidal Energy (RITE) Project
Drexel researchers create and stabilize pure polymeric nitrogen using plasma
Producing polymeric nitrogen at near-ambient conditions is a new trick for liquid plasma
Turning waste heat into hydrogen fuel
Using waste heat helps cut cost of producing hydrogen
Storing energy in hydrogen 20 times more effective using platinum-nickel catalyst
Catalysts accelerate chemical reactions, but the widely used metal platinum is scarce and expensive. Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), together with Chinese, Singaporean and Japanese researchers, have now developed an alternative with a 20x higher activity: a catalyst…
Researchers generate terahertz laser with laughing gas
Device may enable ‘”T-ray vision’ and better wireless communication
Light at the end of the nanotunnel for future catalysts
Using a new type of nanoreactor, researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have succeeded in mapping catalytic reactions on individual metallic nanoparticles. Their work could help improve chemical processes, and lead to better catalysts and more environmentally friendly chemical…
Climate impact of hydropower varies widely
Hydropower is broadly considered to be much more environmentally friendly than electricity generated from fossil fuels, and in many cases this is true. However, a new study reveals that the climate impact of hydropower facilities varies widely throughout the world…
Perovskite solar cells: Possible aspects of high efficiency uncovered
Solar cells based on perovskites have reached enormously high efficiencies within a few years, only. Those containing hybrid halide perovskite, i.e. materials containing inorganic and organic components, achieve particularly high efficiencies, but lack long-term stability, yet. Even though inorganic perovskite…
Light at the end of the nanotunnel for future catalysts
Using a new type of nanoreactor, researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have succeeded in mapping catalytic reactions on individual metallic nanoparticles. Their work could help improve chemical processes, and lead to better catalysts and more environmentally friendly chemical…
Climate impact of hydropower varies widely
Hydropower is broadly considered to be much more environmentally friendly than electricity generated from fossil fuels, and in many cases this is true. However, a new study reveals that the climate impact of hydropower facilities varies widely throughout the world…
Perovskite solar cells: Possible aspects of high efficiency uncovered
Solar cells based on perovskites have reached enormously high efficiencies within a few years, only. Those containing hybrid halide perovskite, i.e. materials containing inorganic and organic components, achieve particularly high efficiencies, but lack long-term stability, yet. Even though inorganic perovskite…
The environmental cost of cryptocurrency mines
UNM team assesses monetary price of health and air quality impacts
Brookhaven-Commonwealth Fusion Energy Project wins DOE funding
Through DOE’s new Innovation Network for Fusion Energy (INFUSE) program, Brookhaven will partner with Massachusetts-based startup Commonwealth Fusion Systems to develop superconducting power cables and test their ability to withstand damage-inducing event
Iron-based solar cells on track to becoming more efficient
An international study led from Lund University in Sweden shows that 30 per cent of the energy in a certain type of light-absorbing iron molecule disappears in a previously unknown manner. By closing this loophole, the researchers hope to contribute…
New material points toward highly efficient solar cells
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — A new type of material for next-generation solar cells eliminates the need to use lead, which has been a major roadblock for this technology. Solar cells, incorporating the mineral perovskite, have been the focus of attention…
Brookhaven-Commonwealth Fusion Energy Project wins DOE funding
Through DOE’s new Innovation Network for Fusion Energy (INFUSE) program, Brookhaven will partner with Massachusetts-based startup Commonwealth Fusion Systems to develop superconducting power cables and test their ability to withstand damage-inducing event
Iron-based solar cells on track to becoming more efficient
An international study led from Lund University in Sweden shows that 30 per cent of the energy in a certain type of light-absorbing iron molecule disappears in a previously unknown manner. By closing this loophole, the researchers hope to contribute…
New material points toward highly efficient solar cells
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — A new type of material for next-generation solar cells eliminates the need to use lead, which has been a major roadblock for this technology. Solar cells, incorporating the mineral perovskite, have been the focus of attention…
New efficiency world record for organic solar modules
A research team from Nuremberg and Erlangen has set a new record for the power conversion efficiency of organic photovoltaic modules (OPV). The scientists from Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), the Bavarian Center for Applied Energy Research (ZAE), and the Helmholtz…
Skoltech scientists developed superfast charging high-capacity potassium batteries based on organic
Skoltech researchers in collaboration with scientists from the Institute for Problems of Chemical Physics of RAS and the Ural Federal University showed that high-capacity high-power batteries can be made from organic materials without using lithium or other rare elements. In…
‘Messy’ production of perovskite material increases solar cell efficiency
Scientists at the University of Cambridge studying perovskite materials for next generation solar cells and flexible LEDs have discovered that they can be more efficient when their chemical compositions are less ordered, vastly simplifying production processes and lowering cost. The…
New catalyst efficiently produces hydrogen from seawater
Holds promise for large-scale hydrogen production, desalination
New efficiency world record for organic solar modules
A research team from Nuremberg and Erlangen has set a new record for the power conversion efficiency of organic photovoltaic modules (OPV). The scientists from Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), the Bavarian Center for Applied Energy Research (ZAE), and the Helmholtz…
Skoltech scientists developed superfast charging high-capacity potassium batteries based on organic
Skoltech researchers in collaboration with scientists from the Institute for Problems of Chemical Physics of RAS and the Ural Federal University showed that high-capacity high-power batteries can be made from organic materials without using lithium or other rare elements. In…
‘Messy’ production of perovskite material increases solar cell efficiency
Scientists at the University of Cambridge studying perovskite materials for next generation solar cells and flexible LEDs have discovered that they can be more efficient when their chemical compositions are less ordered, vastly simplifying production processes and lowering cost. The…
New catalyst efficiently produces hydrogen from seawater
Holds promise for large-scale hydrogen production, desalination