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Energy & Green Tech
New financial analysis tool for long-duration energy storage in deeply decarbonized grids
Renewable energy generation technologies such as solar, wind, and hydro continue to gain popularity worldwide. As more and more renewable generation enters the grid, the success of these clean technologies will increasingly ...
Jul 30, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
Indiana to test 'magment': a magnetized concrete to charge electric vehicles
The governor of Indiana has announced that the Indiana Department of Transportation and Purdue University will soon begin testing the viability of "Magment"—a magnetized concrete for use in charging electric vehicles as ...
Jul 28, 2021 report
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Consumer & Gadgets
Dark mode may not save battery life as much as anticipated
When Android and Apple operating system updates started giving users the option to put their smartphones in dark mode, the feature showed potential for saving the battery life of newer phones with screens that allow darker-colored ...
Jul 28, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
Researchers pave the way toward finding suitable solvents for perovskite inks
Perovskite solar cells have gained attention in recent years because of their ability to deliver high photovoltaic performance under a low-cost and low-temperature solution-based fabrication processing, which allows materials ...
Jul 28, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
Hybrid cars are twice as vulnerable to supply chain issues as gas-powered models
The global computer chip shortage has hit car manufacturers especially hard, indicating the importance of supply chain resilience. Yet, for hybrid electric vehicles, it isn't clear how their production could be impacted by ...
Jul 28, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
'AirBubble' offers respite from Warsaw pollution
At a new playground in central Warsaw, algae feast on pollutants and carbon dioxide to provide a bubble of clean oxygen in a city ranked as one of the most polluted capitals in the EU.
Jul 28, 2021
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Engineering
Offshore wind turbines could number 30,000 by 2030: New ideas in ocean engineering are needed to install them
The UK is planning to install 40 gigawatts of offshore wind power by 2030—enough to provide electricity to every home in the country. This would require 5,000 wind turbines—double the number installed offshore worldwide ...
Jul 28, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
Lower battery costs, high value of backup power influence distributed storage deployment
There is economic potential for up to 490 gigawatts per hour of behind-the-meter battery storage in the United States by 2050 in residential, commercial, and industrial sectors, or 300 times today's installed capacity. But ...
Jul 28, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
'Founding Father' of lithium-ion batteries helps solve 40-year problem with his invention
In the late 1970s, M. Stanley Whittingham was the first to describe the concept of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, an achievement for which he would share the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Yet even he couldn't have anticipated ...
Jul 27, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
New AI system predicts building energy rates in less than a second
At a time when the UK is trying to reach net zero by 2050, the timely, accurate calculation of energy efficiency is a vital component of the design process for new and refurbished buildings.
Jul 27, 2021
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Research illuminates how energy costs vary nationwide
Costs for energy are borne unequally across the U.S. population. Argonne research is providing key data that can help inform decisions about which technologies can reduce disparities.
Jul 27, 2021
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