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Engineering
Turning organic waste into renewable biofuel additives using radiation
Engineers at Lancaster University have led research that discovers a way to generate renewable biofuel additives, using radiation that could be derived from nuclear waste.
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Consumer & Gadgets
Now everyone can build battery-free electronic devices
Last year, computer engineers from Northwestern University and Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) introduced the world's first battery-free Game Boy, which harvests both solar energy and the user's kinetic energy from ...
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Energy & Green Tech
Team seeks to provide tools for predicting building emissions across the U.S.
The United States is entering a building boom. Between 2017 and 2050, it will build the equivalent of New York City 20 times over. Yet, to meet climate targets, the nation must also significantly reduce the greenhouse gas ...
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Energy & Green Tech
A new look at the problem of energy efficiency in lithium-ion batteries
An international research team featuring two Skoltech scientists has experimentally demonstrated that a long-standing explanation for low energy efficiency in lithium-ion batteries does not hold. The researchers explained ...
Sep 21, 2021
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Electronics & Semiconductors
New catalyst improves waste water conversion to clean energy
A new generation of high performance catalysts developed by a team led by University of Adelaide scientists will improve the efficiency of using urea loaded waste water to generate clean energy.
Sep 21, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
AI-based method speeds discovery of materials that harvest electricity from wasted heat
In any form of energy conversion—even with something as green as solar panels—extra heat is generated. But with up to 72 percent of it left unused, there's also great potential to harvest electricity from that waste.
Sep 21, 2021
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Other
White paper charts R&D path to give electric aviation industry wings
U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, DOE's Vehicle Technologies Office (VTO), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Glenn Research Center and other experts aim to make electric aviation ...
Sep 21, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
Negative CO2 emissions are possible with new Aussie technology
Southern Green Gas Ltd (SGG) and Swiss Re, one of the world's leading providers of reinsurance, insurance and other forms of risk-based transfer, have agreed to collaborate on Carbon Removals initiatives in Australia involving ...
Sep 21, 2021
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Engineering
High-speed alloy creation could revolutionize hydrogen's future
A Sandia National Laboratories team of materials scientists and computer scientists, with some international collaborators, have spent more than a year creating 12 new alloys—and modeling hundreds more—that demonstrate ...
Sep 20, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
Strong sunlight powers passive cooling device
A simple cooling system driven by the capture of passive solar energy could provide low-cost food refrigeration and living space cooling for impoverished communities with no access to the electricity grid. The system, which ...
Sep 20, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
Bill Gates raises over $1 bn for clean energy
Bill Gates's nonprofit group Breakthrough Energy announced Monday that it has raised more than $1 billion from seven major companies, including ArcelorMittal and General Motors, to fund clean energy development.
Sep 20, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
Waverider buoys collect data on the powerful clean energy available in our oceans
A self-described surf junkie, Muglia catches waves on his surfboard off the coast of the Outer Banks in North Carolina. Further into those waters—15 nautical miles to be exact—sits another surfer. Aptly named Waverider, ...
Sep 20, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
Cities need to boost resident knowledge of green infrastructure
"Green infrastructure" often comes up when talking about climate change. Problem is, few people know what it means.
Sep 17, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
A road map to ending diesel vehicle pollution
Researchers have developed a road map to accelerate the removal of light diesel vehicles, including cars, utes and vans, from New Zealand roads in a quest to clear the air.
Sep 17, 2021
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