Engineering
A widely-used gas that is currently produced from fossil fuels can instead be made by an 'artificial leaf' that uses only sunlight, carbon dioxide and water, and which could eventually be used to develop a sustainable liquid ...
Oct 21, 2019
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Polluting emissions from Chinese thermal power plants declined significantly between 2014 and 2017, according to research involving UCL.
Oct 7, 2019
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A new study shows that, contrary to widespread belief within the solar power industry, new kinds of solar cells and panels don't necessarily have to last for 25 to 30 years in order to be economically viable in today's market.
Sep 19, 2019
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Energy & Green Tech
An inexpensive thermoelectric device harnesses the cold of space without active heat input, generating electricity that powers an LED at night, researchers report September 12 in the journal Joule.
Sep 12, 2019
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Energy & Green Tech
A common greenhouse gas could be repurposed in an efficient and environmentally friendly way with an electrolyzer that uses renewable electricity to produce pure liquid fuels.
Sep 3, 2019
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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 ...
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 8, 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 5, 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 to ...
Jul 31, 2019
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Energy & Green Tech
Interfacial solar vapor generation has great potential for desalination and wastewater treatment with high energy conversion efficacy. High water evaporation rates cannot be maintained using existing techniques, however, ...
