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Engineering
Sustainable building components use passive dehumidification to create a good indoor climate
Whether it's the meeting room of an office building, the exhibition room of a museum or the waiting area of a government office, many people gather in such places, and quickly the air becomes thick. This is partly due to ...
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Engineering
Untapped potential: Construction materials could store billions of tons of CO₂ annually
Construction materials such as concrete and plastic have the potential to lock away billions of tons of carbon dioxide, according to a new study by civil engineers and Earth systems scientists at the University of California, ...
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Dialysis-inspired technique 'astonishingly effective' for treating wastewater
Researchers at Rice University, in collaboration with Guangdong University of Technology, have uncovered an innovative approach to treating high-salinity organic wastewaters—streams containing both elevated salt and organic ...
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Enhanced tandem solar modules promise lower costs and higher efficiency
Increasing module efficiency and expanding manufacturing capacity play complementary roles in reducing costs of metal halide perovskite/silicon tandem solar modules, according to researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's ...
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Innovative smart window technology balances heat and visibility control
Smart windows are becoming a key focus in the push for energy-efficient buildings and sustainable architecture. These windows can dynamically adjust their properties to control light and heat, improving comfort while reducing ...
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Elimination of newly discovered loss mechanism enhances organic solar cell efficiency and stability
Researchers at Åbo Akademi University in Finland have identified and eliminated a previously unknown loss mechanism in organic solar cells that makes them more efficient and gives them a longer lifetime. The results provide ...
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Energy & Green Tech
How heat storage technologies could keep Canada's roads and bridges ice-free all winter long
For decades, Canadian cities and towns have combated ice and snow with salt and plows. This approach, however, comes at a steep cost. Traditional techniques damage roads, harm the environment and are not always effective ...
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Energy & Green Tech
Western Australia's mines could be carbon free in next few years
Mine sites in regional and remote parts of Western Australia could be fully powered by renewable energy within the next few years, Edith Cowan University (ECU) researchers found.
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Energy & Green Tech
Building better batteries: Researchers untangle the tiny strands of lithium that develop inside rechargeable batteries
When we plug in our cell phones to charge them, we take it for granted that they'll soon be brimming with energy for scrolling, texting and receiving news alerts. But the technology powering this—rechargeable lithium-ion ...
Jan 9, 2025
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Engineering
3D-printed fungal fuel cell offers biodegradable power solution
A battery that needs feeding instead of charging? This is exactly what Empa researchers have achieved with their 3D-printed, biodegradable fungal battery. The living battery could supply power to sensors for agriculture or ...
Jan 9, 2025
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Software
How hard is it to prevent recurring blackouts in Puerto Rico? A novel framework for grid resiliency
Researchers at MIT's Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) have shown that using decision-making software and dynamic monitoring of weather and energy use can significantly improve resiliency in the face ...
Jan 8, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
US solar power generation holds steady even during extreme fire seasons
New research from Colorado State University shows that while wildfire smoke increasingly covers large parts of the U.S. it does not have much of an impact on overall, long-term solar power generation activity.
Jan 8, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
'Cold-expanding' materials may solve lithium-ion battery winter woes
Most solids expand as temperatures increase and shrink as they cool. Some materials do the opposite, expanding in the cold. Lithium titanium phosphate is one such substance and could provide a solution to the problem of steeply ...
Jan 8, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
An AI tool may help optimize methane storage solutions
A new approach harnesses machine learning to search for materials to store methane, helping accelerate the adoption of methane as a cleaner alternative fuel for vehicles. The University of Michigan-led study is published ...
Jan 8, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
Lithium-sulfur batteries: Study uncovers key degradation insights
Lithium-sulfur batteries have a number of advantages over conventional lithium batteries: they use the abundant raw material sulfur, do not require the critical elements cobalt or nickel, and can achieve extremely high specific ...
Jan 8, 2025
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Engineering
Advanced membrane technology offers superior treatment for high-salinity wastewater
A research team led by Prof. Wan Yinhua at the Institute of Process Engineering (IPE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed an innovative mix-charged nanofiltration (NF) membrane featuring horizontal charge distribution, ...
Jan 8, 2025
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Engineering
Nuclear fusion could one day be a viable clean energy source, but big engineering challenges stand in the way
The way scientists think about fusion changed forever in 2022, when what some called the experiment of the century demonstrated for the first time that fusion can be a viable source of clean energy.
Jan 8, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
Germans turn to balcony solar panels to save money
As snowflakes gently settled on his balcony solar panels on a cold winter's day, Berliner Jens Sax checked his smartphone to see how much electricity they were generating.
Jan 8, 2025
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Engineering
Electrokinetic rare earth mining technique gets upscaled to industrial levels
A team of metallurgists and geochemists at Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, working with a mechanical engineer from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has improved their previous electrokinetic mining technique by scaling ...
Engineering
Experimental membrane captures more than 99% of aluminum ions from waste
Used in everything from soda cans and foil wrap to circuit boards and rocket boosters, aluminum is the second-most-produced metal in the world after steel. By the end of this decade, demand is projected to drive up aluminum ...
Jan 7, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
New study opens the door for waste-derived organic redox flow batteries
The batteries used in our phones, devices and even cars rely on metals like lithium and cobalt, sourced through intensive and invasive mining. As more products begin to depend on battery-based energy storage systems, shifting ...
Jan 7, 2025
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Engineering
Silk-based nanofiltration membrane can purify water 10 times faster than commercial methods
A research team led by Professor Chuyang Tang, Chair Professor from the Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering at the University of Hong Kong (HKU), has developed a novel nanofiltration membrane using natural ...
Jan 7, 2025
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Engineering
Ramping up the scale of climate and energy technology: Experts recommend technical risk assessment strategies
One of the biggest challenges in implementing energy and climate technologies is actually scaling them up to deploy. While scale-up has largely been the domain of industrial R&D teams, advances in modeling and experimental ...
Jan 7, 2025
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Engineering
Method can detect harmful salts forming in nuclear waste melters
A new way to identify salts in nuclear waste melters could help improve clean-up technology, including at the Hanford Site, one of the largest, most complex nuclear waste clean-up sites in the world.
Jan 7, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
Agrivoltaics paired with sheep production makes nearly 100% of land grazable
While herding sheep is an age-old adage for leadership, breeding and raising sheep is where the money is, according to a new study led by Western University.
Jan 7, 2025
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