Data centers are guzzling up too much electricity. Can we make them more efficient?
Our insatiable demand for digital content and services has been driving a rise in energy-hungry data centers.
Jul 29, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Our insatiable demand for digital content and services has been driving a rise in energy-hungry data centers.
Jul 29, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
In a computational study leveraging artificial intelligence (AI), scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have assessed 160 billion molecules, a number exceeding the people born in ...
Jan 10, 2024
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Engineering
A project team led by Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) presents the prototype of a flywheel storage system, FlyGrid, that can store electricity locally and deliver it using fast-charging technology.
Jun 15, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Water blankets around 70 percent of the Earth's surface. Moreover, 97 percent of all the water on earth is seawater, which is undrinkable because of its salt content. But what if we could harness its potential as a new source ...
Apr 27, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Recently, Junyou Yang and Yubo Luo from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, in collaboration with Xin Li from the National University of Singapore, published an article titled "Enhancing the stability of planar ...
Oct 26, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
With energy costs rising, and the rapidly emerging effects of burning fossil fuels on the global climate, the need has never been greater for researchers to find paths to products and fuels that are truly renewable.
Jul 7, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
The intermittent supply of green electricity requires large-scale storage to keep our power grids stable. Since normal batteries do not scale very well, the idea of using flow batteries, which store electricity in a fluid ...
Mar 16, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Using a unique hydrogel, scientists in Saudi Arabia created a solar-driven system that successfully grows spinach by using water drawn from the air while producing electricity. The proof-of-concept design, described March ...
Mar 1, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Airbus is aiming to put the world's first hydrogen-powered commercial plane into service by 2035, the European aircraft maker's boss said in remarks published Monday.
Sep 21, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
The Australian government's investment roadmap for low-emissions technologies promises more taxpayers' money to the gas industry but fails to deliver the policy needed for people to support a transition to renewable energy.
Jun 19, 2020
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