Engineering
Seawater holds enormous potential for green hydrogen production, but realizing that potential remains far from straightforward. Direct seawater electrolysis can damage electrodes, whereas conventional freshwater electrolysis ...
Sep 18, 2026
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Engineering
Although invaluable to modern society, refrigeration faces challenges from traditional vapor-compression systems, which are energy-intensive and use refrigerants that exacerbate the greenhouse effect and damage the ozone ...
Sep 18, 2026
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Energy & Green Tech
For most of Australian history, "going off-grid" meant living somewhere the main electricity network did not reach. Isolated communities and remote farming properties have long relied on stand-alone power systems. These typically ...
Sep 18, 2026
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Engineering
A study led by Penn State researchers suggests that recycled concrete aggregate and an iron-rich byproduct of steel production could help treat acid mine drainage, the toxic runoff that pollutes thousands of miles of streams ...
Sep 17, 2026
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Engineering
Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has developed a new method to determine when sodium-ion (Na-ion) and lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery technologies can provide comparable electrical performance for defined applications.
Sep 17, 2026
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Energy & Green Tech
Italy's government says the country's largest steelworks must be converted to electric furnaces after a court-ordered shutdown of polluting furnaces but, as Rome seeks a buyer, critics say its plan is woefully unsubstantiated.
Sep 17, 2026
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Organic semiconductors are carbon-based materials that can conduct electricity and can be used for flexible, lightweight and potentially low-cost electronic devices. While the technology is promising, performance challenges ...
Sep 17, 2026
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Energy & Green Tech
Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, have designed a device that harvests sunlight to generate clean hydrogen from seawater and simultaneously degrades hydrazine, a highly toxic contaminant from industrial ...
Sep 17, 2026
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Physics predicts that no more than 33% of the solar energy that falls on a solar panel can be converted into electricity. However, experiments and simulations by scientists at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands ...
Sep 17, 2026
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Energy & Green Tech
The increasingly complex network of electricity generators and consumers poses major challenges for Austria's energy transmission infrastructure. For example, the use of increasingly powerful inverters and rectifiers in the ...
Sep 17, 2026
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