Light-powered soft robots could suck up oil spills
Afloating, robotic film designed at UC Riverside could be trained to hoover oil spills at sea or remove contaminants from drinking water.
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Hydrogen produced from offshore wind in China can help Japan reach its greenhouse gas emissions goals
Japan's Green Growth Strategy signals a commitment to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050—and hydrogen produced from renewable energy can play an important role in this shift. A team of researchers from Harvard University, ...
Dec 01, 2021
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Scientists develop lead-absorbing tape to boost viability of rising star in solar power industry
Researchers at Northern Illinois University and the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, Colorado, are reporting a potential breakthrough that could help speed commercialization ...
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An energy-storage solution that flows like soft-serve ice cream
Batteries made from an electrically conductive mixture the consistency of molasses could help solve a critical piece of the decarbonization puzzle. An interdisciplinary team from MIT has found that an electrochemical technology ...
Nov 30, 2021
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Using artificial intelligence to advance energy technologies
Hongliang Xin, an associate professor of chemical engineering in the College of Engineering, and his collaborators have devised a new artificial intelligence framework that can accelerate discovery of materials for important ...
Nov 30, 2021
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Scientists discover way to improve perovskite efficiency and stability
Researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and affiliated institutions across the country have bolstered the efficiency of perovskite solar cells by as much as 16%.
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Research pushes auto industry closer to clean cars powered by direct ethanol fuel cells
Alternative-energy research at Oregon State University is charting a path toward the mass adoption of clean cars powered by direct-ethanol fuel cells.
Nov 29, 2021
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Timber or steel? Study helps builders reduce carbon footprint of truss structures
Buildings are a big contributor to global warming, not just in their ongoing operations but in the materials used in their construction. Truss structures—those crisscross arrays of diagonal struts used throughout modern ...
Nov 29, 2021
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Sizing up the challenges in extracting lithium from geothermal brine
If you had a jar of marbles of many different colors but wanted only the green ones, how could you efficiently pick them out? What if it wasn't marbles but a jar of glitter, and there was sand, glue, and mud mixed in? That ...
Nov 29, 2021
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Accelerated renewables-based electrification paves the way for a post-fossil future
Cost-slashing innovations are underway in the electric power sector and could give electricity the lead over fossil-based combustion fuels in the world's energy supply by mid-century. When combined with a global carbon price, ...
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