Research shows how common plastics could passively cool and heat buildings with the seasons
Researchers at Princeton and UCLA have developed a passive mechanism to cool buildings in the summer and warm them in the winter.
Jun 27, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Researchers at Princeton and UCLA have developed a passive mechanism to cool buildings in the summer and warm them in the winter.
Jun 27, 2024
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Engineering
A research team led by Prof. Cao Xun from the Shanghai Institute of Ceramics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, together with collaborators from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, has developed a new type of ...
May 21, 2024
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Artificial neural networks may soon be able to process time-dependent information, such as audio and video data, more efficiently. The first memristor with a "relaxation time" that can be tuned is reported today in Nature ...
May 20, 2024
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Engineering
Thermochromic perovskite is a new color switch material used in energy-saving smart windows. Despite its potential for energy savings, thermochromic perovskite suffers from poor weather resistance, susceptibility to water ...
Apr 25, 2024
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Business
Countries with limited potential for renewables could save up to 20% of costs for green steel and up to 40% for green chemicals from green hydrogen if they relocated their energy-intensive production and would import from ...
Apr 24, 2024
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Hardware
Research groups from NIMS, Seagate Technology, and Tohoku University have made a breakthrough in the field of hard disk drives (HDD) by demonstrating the feasibility of multi-level recording using a three-dimensional magnetic ...
Apr 4, 2024
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Computer Sciences
The fact that colossal amounts of energy are needed to Google away, talk to Siri, ask ChatGPT to get something done, or use AI in any sense, has gradually become common knowledge.
Apr 3, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems, a critical component of building energy consumption, are prone to faults that can reduce their efficiency. Traditional data-driven fault detection and diagnosis (FDD) ...
Mar 28, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Southwest Research Institute has developed a natural-gas-fueled medium-duty truck outfitted with a hybrid powertrain that achieved a 25% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) over standard diesel powertrains. The vehicle ...
Mar 4, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Millions of U.S. households would benefit from heat pumps, but the cost of installing the technology needs to come down to make their use a more attractive proposition, according to researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's ...
Feb 13, 2024
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