Energy & Green Tech
A team of researchers with the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Mälardalen University and Tsinghua University has found that all of China's major cities are now in a position to produce electricity from solar power more ...
Aug 13, 2019 report
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Energy & Green Tech
Silicon dominates solar energy products—it is stable, cheap and efficient at turning sunlight into electricity. Any new material taking on silicon must compete and win on those grounds. As a result of an international research ...
Aug 08, 2019
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Engineering
Engineers have designed a new system that can help cool buildings in crowded metropolitan areas without consuming electricity, an important innovation at a time when cities are working to adapt to climate change.
Aug 05, 2019
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Engineering
While artificial leaves hold promise as a way to take carbon dioxide—a potent greenhouse gas—out of the atmosphere, there is a "dark side to artificial leaves that has gone overlooked for more than a decade," according ...
Jul 31, 2019
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In a perspective published in Joule on August 14, a group of researchers led by Stanford University propose a new academic discipline, 'macro-energy systems,' as the science of the energy transition.
Aug 19, 2019
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Energy & Green Tech
Energy use in buildings—from heating and cooling your home to keeping the lights on in the office—is responsible for over one-third of all carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in the United States. Slashing building CO2 emissions ...
Aug 15, 2019
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Energy & Green Tech
Europe has the capacity to produce more than 100 times the amount of energy it currently produces through onshore windfarms, new analysis from the University of Sussex and Aarhus University has revealed.
Aug 14, 2019
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Energy & Green Tech
Advances in adapting the technology for cold climates and offshore use and better methods for predicting wind conditions have fanned significant growth of the use of wind turbines for electricity in the last 40 years. A new ...
Aug 13, 2019
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Engineering
The utility company operating Fukushima's tsunami-devastated nuclear power plant said Friday it will run out of space to store massive amounts of contaminated water in three years, adding pressure on the government and the ...
Aug 09, 2019
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Energy & Green Tech
The most productive places on Earth for solar power are farmlands, according to an Oregon State University study.
Aug 08, 2019
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