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Vietnam pushes electric motorbikes as pollution becomes 'unbearable'
In Vietnam's heavily polluted capital Hanoi, teenage taxi driver Phung Khac Trung rides his electric motorbike through streets jammed with two-wheelers belching toxic fumes.
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Energy & Green Tech
Proton batteries: An innovative option for the future of energy storage
A team of scientists at UNSW Chemistry have successfully developed an organic material that is able to store protons—and they have used it to create a rechargeable proton battery in the lab.
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Scalable technique enhances 2D layer formation in solar cells
Solar cells based on perovskites, a class of materials with advantageous optoelectronic properties, have recently achieved power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) comparable to those of some silicon-based photovoltaics. Moreover, ...
Tandem solar cells made from perovskite and organic material break efficiency record
Trying to improve the efficiency of solar cells to become independent from fossil energy sources is a major goal of solar cell research. A team led by physicist Dr. Felix Lang from the University of Potsdam, Prof. Lei Meng ...
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Energy strategy could help advance low-carbon road transport while keeping it economically competitive
Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) have presented a concept for decarbonizing transport while keeping it economically competitive. Increasing the utilization of carbon dioxide from biogas plants plays an important ...
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Engineering
Unified testing protocol could improve the durability of flexible photovoltaic devices
Flexible portable devices, also known as FlexPVs, have great potential in multiple applications. For example, wearable technology, intelligent fabrics, curved surfaces such as car roofs or lightweight applications such as ...
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Energy & Green Tech
Experts reveal how technological advances could use the sun to source hydrogen fuel
In the future, we could fuel the world with sunlight and water—using sunlight to derive hydrogen fuel from H2O. Currently, most hydrogen that's used as feedstock and fuel is derived from natural gas, and therefore doesn't ...
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Energy & Green Tech
Jet zero? Why net zero in aviation can't get off the ground
The airline industry is on course to miss its 2050 net zero target for aviation. Passenger numbers continue to soar, while alternatives to fossil fuels remain underdeveloped. Missing this target matters because aviation contributes ...
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Engineering
Origami packaging technology offers sustainable alternatives to conventional materials
VTT Technical Research Center of Finland, in collaboration with Aalto University and Finnish industrial partners, has developed a new technology for shaping cardboard in a unique continuous process to create reel-to-reel, ...
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Engineering
Study introduces new approaches to engineer stable and robust perovskite solar cells
Perovskites are materials with advantageous optoelectronic properties that could be used to develop more affordable photovoltaics (PVs). While in recent years engineers were able to significantly improve the power-conversion ...
Engineering
Engineers develop filter-free microbubble air purification system inspired by human respiratory tract
A research team has developed an eco-friendly air purification system using microbubble filters instead of conventional solid filters.
Dec 2, 2024
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Engineering
Enhanced 3D electrode design stores electricity four times faster than before
A new 3D design for electrodes enables the Battolyser, a battery and electrolyzer in one, to store twice the amount of electricity it could previously hold and do so four times faster. Researchers from Delft University of ...
Dec 2, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Climate solution: Sails make a comeback in shipping, to dent its huge carbon footprint
Had he continued working aboard fuel-powered cargo ships, Yann Jourdan reckons he'd be earning perhaps four times what he now gets as captain of a sailboat that instead uses the wind's clean energy to transport goods across ...
Dec 2, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Scientists predict bright future for fly ash in water treatment
The world has the potential today to sustainably manage nearly one billion tons of ash waste it produces every year and turn it into a useful material for water treatment applications, according to a study by scientists from ...
Dec 2, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Study offers holistic definition of sustainable aviation
In his sustainable aviation course, aerospace engineering professor Phil Ansell asked, "What does sustainability look like integrated to a system engineering process?" One of his student's answers became a new definition ...
Dec 2, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Solar-powered cookers improving the daily lives of communities in Rwanda
Coventry University researchers are easing access to cooked food in Rwanda by introducing solar-powered cookers to households with limited energy access.
Dec 2, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Waste oil to wonder material: Transforming trash into supercapacitor gold
Amid an escalating global energy crisis, the need for high-performance energy storage solutions is more pressing than ever. Supercapacitors, known for their fast charge/discharge rates and longer cycle life compared to traditional ...
Dec 2, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Creating biohydrogen from wood waste
Up to now, wood waste has had to be disposed of at great expense and, at best, has been used to generate energy in incineration plants. Fraunhofer researchers are now using this valuable resource to produce biohydrogen in ...
Dec 2, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Glittering dreams: India's big push for solar power
Vast lines of solar panels reflect the blazing sun in India's western deserts, a dazzling ocean broken only by bristling wind turbines.
Dec 1, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Balloon system can produce localized solar electricity for the ground below
A team of engineers and environmental scientists from Mälardalen University, in Sweden, Southwest Jiaotong University, in China and Guizhou University, also in China, has developed a balloon system for producing and delivering ...
Energy & Green Tech
Electric vehicle fires: How worried should we really be?
Electric vehicles (EVs) bring not just environmental promise, but also raise critical safety questions—chief among them, the fire risks posed by their lithium-ion batteries. While indispensable for powering EVs, these batteries ...
Nov 30, 2024
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Electronics & Semiconductors
New hydrovoltaic cell continuously generates electricity with little water and no sunlight
A team of engineers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences has modified the approach used to generate electricity with a hydrovoltaic cell, building one that uses little water and no sunlight. Their study is published in the ...
Engineering
Engineering ultrafast exciton dynamics to boost organic photovoltaic performance
A team of researchers led by Professor Philip C.Y. Chow from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) has revealed how the structure of organic photovoltaic (OPV) materials affects their ...
Nov 29, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
The Birmingham Blade: The world's first geographically tailored urban wind turbine designed by AI
AI design specialists EvoPhase and precision metal fabricators Kwik Fab Ltd have unveiled the world's first urban wind turbine designed by AI, and tailored to the unique wind conditions of a specific geographic area. The ...
Nov 29, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Engineers unveil catalyst innovations for sustainable turquoise hydrogen solutions
Dr. Woohyun Kim's research team from the Hydrogen Research Department at the Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER) has successfully developed an innovative nickel-cobalt composite catalyst that can accelerate the production ...
Nov 29, 2024
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