Energy & Green Tech
Every year, 50% of the energy produced worldwide from coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear, and renewable energy sources is lost as heat. This untapped resource could be a promising additional source of useful energy, and for ...
Dec 18, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
Much of the developed world is focused on the conversion of natural resources, such as sunlight, wind, the turning of the tides, waves, and other phenomena into electrical power. However, conversions require sophisticated ...
Nov 19, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
Using liquefied natural gas (LNG) as fuel can help ships reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. But LNG ships are currently inefficient, with massive heat losses. Thankfully, researchers have developed novel heat recovery ...
Nov 4, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
With a $2-million grant from the California Energy Commission (CEC), Berkeley Lab has developed a cost-effective thermoelectric waste-heat recovery system to reduce electricity-related carbon emissions. Industries such as ...
Aug 16, 2021
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Tossing worn-out solar panels into landfills may soon become electronics waste history.
Jun 24, 2021
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Increasing demand for electrification in rural areas poses challenges, but also creates opportunities for development of decentralized electrification systems. Compared with conventional electrical grids based on large, centralized ...
Jul 13, 2020
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Potential sources of renewable energy include protein complexes that are responsible for photosynthesis. However, their efficiency in technical applications still leaves much to be desired. For example, they cannot convert ...
Jun 2, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
One way of increasing sustainability is to reduce carbon fuel emissions within transportation. In 2017 greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from this sector surpassed all others in the U.S., accounting for nearly 30% of total GHG ...
Nov 27, 2019
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Consumer & Gadgets
Organic photovoltaic (OPV) cells, a third-generation solar cell technology that can convert solar energy into electricity, have been found to be more efficient than silicon cells under low light intensity indoor LED illumination. ...
Energy & Green Tech
The quest to find new ways to harness solar power has taken a step forward after researchers successfully split water into hydrogen and oxygen by altering the photosynthetic machinery in plants.
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