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Tripling the energy storage of lithium-ion batteries

As the demand for smartphones, electric vehicles, and renewable energy continues to rise, scientists are searching for ways to improve lithium-ion batteries—the most common type of battery found in home electronics and ...

Energy & Green Tech

Jun 14, 2018
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Gasoline-alcohol engines for heavy-duty trucks could produce a meaningful improvement in global air quality

Most efforts to reduce the adverse air pollution and climate impacts of today's vehicles focus on cars and light-duty trucks that are typically fueled by gasoline, with strategies that range from electrification and carpooling ...

Energy & Green Tech

Jun 14, 2018
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Cobalt-free batteries: The long goodbye

Lithium-ion batteries make use of cobalt for stability. The use of cobalt, nonetheless, has its drawbacks. The drawbacks have to do with cost, and with availability, and the two as usual are intertwined.

Energy & Green Tech

Jun 12, 2018
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Solar cells combining silicon with perovskite have achieved record efficiency of 25.2 percent

In the field of photovoltaic technologies, silicon-based solar cells make up 90 percent of the market. In terms of cost, stability and efficiency (20-22 percent for a typical solar cell on the market), they are well ahead ...

Energy & Green Tech

Jun 12, 2018
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The science behind the search for clandestine nuclear sites

Will the recent U.S. withdrawal from a 2015 accord that put restrictions on Iran's nuclear program make it easier for Iran to pursue the bomb in secret? Not likely, according to Scott Kemp, an associate professor of nuclear ...

Energy & Green Tech

Jun 11, 2018
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30% of the UK's natural gas could be replaced by hydrogen, cutting carbon emissions

Almost a third of the natural gas fuelling UK homes and businesses could be replaced by hydrogen, a carbon free fuel, without requiring any changes to the nation's boilers and ovens, a pioneering study by Swansea University ...

Energy & Green Tech

Jun 11, 2018
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Sodium-based batteries could make your smartphone cheaper and cleaner

Sodium—one of the elements that make up table salt—could soon make cellphone batteries much cheaper and cleaner. That's the goal of Chongwu Zhou, a professor of electrical engineering at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering.

Energy & Green Tech

Jun 06, 2018
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Pharmaceutical material shows promise for better grid-scale batteries

An organic molecule used in dyes and antibiotics may be the key to less expensive, more efficient redox flow batteries. Scientists at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory developed a highly reversible, ...

Energy & Green Tech

Jun 05, 2018
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First of its kind emissions-free natural gas power plant undergoes first fire

Officials with NET Power, LLC recently reported the first successful firing of the combustor for a new kind of natural gas-based power plant free of carbon emissions, without having to use carbon capture technology.

Energy & Green Tech

Jun 01, 2018
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Dandelion wants to play a role in home geothermal

Not familiar with residential geothermal heating? No surprise. Chris Martin in Bloomberg explained that "Residential geothermal heating is uncommon, in part because the expense and effort to dig the wells make them costly ...

Energy & Green Tech

Jun 01, 2018
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