Emerging energy and water harvesting technologies encompass a suite of materials, devices, and systems designed to capture, convert, and store dispersed environmental resources such as solar radiation, wind, moisture, and ambient heat. Work in this area integrates atmospheric water harvesting architectures, triboelectric and moisture-induced generators, solar thermal and molecular solar thermal storage, barocaloric and magnetic cooling, and long-duration energy storage concepts. These approaches often rely on nanoengineered surfaces, phase-change and barocaloric materials, and hybrid thermodynamic cycles to improve efficiency, reliability, and sustainability of power, cooling, and freshwater supply.
Energy & Green Tech
On Ireland's blustery western seaboard researchers are gleefully flying giant kites—not for fun but in the hope of generating renewable electricity and sparking a "revolution" in wind energy.
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Engineering
One of the problems of conventional filters used in homes, businesses and public spaces is their poor performance. They rely on weak van der Waals forces to capture particles like dust and pollen, meaning they let a lot of ...
Energy & Green Tech
In the basement of a Jakarta housing complex, surrounded by the silver piping of the air-conditioning system, Indonesian technician Ari Sobaruddin is doing his part to tackle climate change.
Jul 10, 2025
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Engineering
Egypt is facing a growing water crisis due to its arid climate, limited water resources, and rapidly increasing population. The country of 114 million people depends heavily on the longest river in the world, the Nile, for ...
Jul 9, 2025
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Engineering
Most of Earth's water is in the oceans and too salty to drink. Desalination plants can make seawater drinkable, but they require large amounts of energy. Now, researchers reporting in ACS Energy Letters have developed a sponge-like ...
Jul 2, 2025
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Consumer & Gadgets
Household appliances need to be refurbished and/or recycled at the end of their useful lives. The KIKERP project (see below) aims to harness artificial intelligence to collect information about used appliances and determine ...
Jul 1, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
A new self-powered water sensor uses wave energy to monitor pollutants like heavy metals, microplastics, and pesticides—no battery needed.
Jul 1, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
Petrol and diesel vehicles are being phased out globally and replaced with electric vehicles so that countries can meet their commitments to zero human-caused carbon emissions by 2050. But electric vehicles' batteries run ...
Jun 30, 2025
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Engineering
Industries that need ultra-pure water—including semiconductor, battery, pharmaceutical, food and beverage companies—are expanding in Arizona. One of the most overlooked challenges for these businesses is what gets left behind ...
Jun 25, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
Data centers are the invisible engines of our digital world. Every Google search, Netflix stream, cloud-stored photo or ChatGPT response passes through banks of high-powered computers housed in giant facilities scattered ...
Jun 16, 2025
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