Energy & Green Tech
Waste materials, including egg trays and plastic takeaway lunch box lids, can be used to insulate homes in hot arid regions to considerably improve their energy efficiency, a new study shows.
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Robotics
In every sector, sustainability and energy efficiency have become pressing concerns, and robotics is no exception.
Jan 5, 2023
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Engineering
Penn State researchers are looking for a safer and more efficient way to use machine learning in the real world. Using a simulated high-rise office building, they developed and tested a new reinforcement learning algorithm ...
Dec 19, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Millions of people are facing soaring energy bills this winter. Yet according to our research, at least 20% of homes in the UK will continue to use large amounts of energy. We have found that existing energy efficiency measures ...
Dec 13, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Rooftop solar panels become more energy effective if placed accurately
Dec 13, 2022
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Robotics
A trio of researchers at Columbia University has developed a very simple, small, soft-bodied robot based on hair-clip technology. Zechen Xiong, Yufeng Su and Hod Lipson have written a paper available on arXiv describing the ...
Energy & Green Tech
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has driven countries across the world to boost energy efficiency, creating "huge potential" to tackle high prices, security and climate change, the IEA said on Friday.
Dec 2, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
The UK aims to replace 1.7 million gas boilers a year by the mid-2030s, as part of its plan to reach net zero. This will require rapidly scaling up the installation of heat pumps which can run on renewable electricity. Just ...
Nov 30, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Study one of the first to address nuclear waste production of small modular reactors.
Nov 18, 2022
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Robotics
Inspired by the biomechanics of the manta ray, researchers at North Carolina State University have developed an energy-efficient soft robot that can swim more than four times faster than previous swimming soft robots. The ...
Nov 18, 2022
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Efficient energy use, sometimes simply called energy efficiency, is using less energy to provide the same level of energy service. An example would be insulating a home to use less heating and cooling energy to achieve the same temperature. Another example would be installing fluorescent lights and/or skylights instead of incandescent lights to attain the same level of illumination. Efficient energy use is achieved primarily by means of a more efficient technology or process rather than by changes in individual behaviour.
Energy efficient buildings, industrial processes and transportation could reduce the world's energy needs in 2050 by one third, and help controlling global emissions of greenhouse gases, according to the International Energy Agency.
Energy efficiency and renewable energy are said to be the twin pillars of sustainable energy policy.
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