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Charging infrastructure of medium voltage station upgraded to megawatt class
In the future, charging stations along freeways, in parking lots or at logistics centers will have to deliver much more power in a short space of time than they do today. For this reason, new charging stations can no longer ...
Jan 17, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
Sky-high prices? Estimating the cost of climate-neutral aviation in the future
Aviation currently contributes to about 4% of the global warming that has been observed. As demand for flights is likely to continue to increase, researchers and governments are looking for solutions to make aviation climate-neutral ...
Jan 16, 2025
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Artificial gills for ocean gliders: A new energy system for autonomous underwater vehicles
Autonomous underwater robots, such as ocean gliders, can autonomously navigate the ocean for several weeks. Their sensors measure parameters like temperature, pressure, salinity, oxygen concentration, and currents. Capable ...
Jan 16, 2025
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Robots should be repurposed rather than recycled to combat rising scale of e-waste, scientists warn
The robotics industry should be creating robots that could be reprogrammed and repurposed for other tasks once its life span is completed, University of Bristol and University of West England researchers have advised.
Jan 16, 2025
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How the UK's plans for AI could derail net zero: The numbers explained
The UK government's goal to increase public-controlled artificial intelligence computing power twentyfold by 2030 would significantly raise electricity demand. Can renewable energy supply meet it—and still have enough left ...
Jan 16, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
New guide offers framework to measure AI's energy consumption
Advanced computing and data centers are massive energy consumers. In fact, a recent report from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory found that U.S. data centers consumed about 4.4% of total electricity in 2023 and projects ...
Jan 16, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
As EV sales surge, the UK car industry might be reaching a turning point
Last year, electric car registrations in the UK topped those of Germany. The number of UK sales (382,000 vehicles) came from growth of 21.4% on 2023, making the UK the largest market for electric vehicles (EVs) in Europe ...
Jan 16, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
Report evaluates increase in electricity demand from data centers
A recent report produced by the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), which outlines the energy use of data centers from 2014 to 2028, estimates that data center load growth has tripled ...
Jan 16, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
ChargeX consortium identifies automated solution to fix key part of electric vehicle charging user experience
National laboratory researchers and industry collaborators in the National Charging Experience Consortium (ChargeX Consortium) have identified a new mechanism called "seamless retry" that could alleviate a common electric ...
Jan 16, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
Floating solar panels in federally controlled reservoirs could power approximately 100 million homes a year
Federal reservoirs could help meet the country's solar energy needs, according to a study published in Solar Energy.
Jan 15, 2025
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Engineering
Scalable aluminum surfaces method enables advancements in cooling, self-cleaning and anti-icing technologies
An international team of engineers has developed an innovative, scalable method for creating topography-patterned aluminum surfaces, enhancing liquid transport properties critical for applications in electronics cooling, ...
Jan 15, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
New research helps eliminate dead zones in desalination technology and beyond
Engineers have found a way to eliminate the fluid flow "dead zones" that plague the types of electrodes used for battery-based seawater desalination. The new technique uses a physics-based tapered flow channel design within ...
Jan 15, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
Comfortable materials use friction to generate power when worn
Researchers have demonstrated new wearable technologies that both generate electricity from human movement and improve the comfort of the technology for the people wearing them. The work stems from an advanced understanding ...
Jan 15, 2025
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Engineering
Zigzags for greener construction: Design avoids concrete and steel waste
Concrete is the most widely used construction material in the world. Made from cement, water, sand and gravel, this relatively cheap mixture can be shaped as needed and withstand high forces in compression. Yet it performs ...
Jan 15, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
AI predicts properties of molten salts for modeling safer and more sustainable nuclear power reactors
Researchers from Skoltech and the Institute of High Temperature Electrochemistry of UB RAS have developed and tested a model based on machine learning that predicts the properties of molten salts. These compounds are already ...
Jan 15, 2025
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Engineering
Nothing new under the sun: Australia's long history of missed chances to build sustainable homes
Australians are no strangers to housing crises. Some will even remember the crisis that followed the Second World War. As well as producing the popular mid-century modern style of architecture, these post-war decades were ...
Jan 15, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
Nuclear energy research drives innovation in Gen-IV reactor safety and efficiency
All U.S. nuclear reactors, which currently provide more than half of the nation's carbon-free power, are first- or second-generation light water reactors. This means they use water as both a coolant and neutron moderator ...
Jan 15, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
Next-generation wearables: Compact cooling pump drops temperatures by 16°F
UCLA materials scientists have developed a compact cooling technology that can pump away heat continuously using layers of flexing thin films. The design is based on the electrocaloric effect, in which an electric field causes ...
Jan 14, 2025
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Business
Green hydrogen: Study shows big gaps between ambition and global implementation
In recent years, more than 60 countries have developed strategies to stimulate the market ramp-up of hydrogen, particularly in the industrial sector. However, in 2023, less than 10% of the originally announced green hydrogen ...
Jan 14, 2025
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Engineering
Self-adjusting shading system mimics pine cones for energy-autonomous weather response
Using pine cones as a model, researchers at the universities of Stuttgart and Freiburg have developed a new, energy-autonomous facade system that adapts passively to the weather. The journal Nature Communications has published ...
Jan 14, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
New electrical pulse method enhances carbon fiber recycling efficiency
The world is hurtling rapidly towards a developed future, and carbon fiber-reinforced polymers (CFRPs) play a key role in enabling technological and industrial progress. These composite materials are lightweight and highly ...
Jan 14, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
Solar panels should not be cleaned with dishwashing detergent, study shows
A study conducted at the University of Turku, Finland, investigated how household cleaning products affect the ability of solar panel glass to transmit light. The results of the study were presented at the 41st European Photovoltaic ...
Jan 14, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
Mega data centers are coming to Minnesota: Their power needs are staggering
Facebook's parent company is building Minnesota's first mega data center in Rosemount to house its fast-growing need for computing muscle.
Jan 14, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
Fabric woven with metal fibers can keep cold-sensitive electric vehicles warm
Dr. Lee Dong Yoon's team at KERI's Energy Conversion Research Center has developed a "plane heating element" made of metal fiber fabric technology, characterized by high efficiency and flexibility, to overcome the shortcomings ...
Jan 14, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
Q&A: The climate impact of generative AI
Vijay Gadepally, a senior staff member at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, leads a number of projects at the Lincoln Laboratory Supercomputing Center (LLSC) to make computing platforms, and the artificial intelligence systems that ...
Jan 14, 2025
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