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.
Sep 3, 2018
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Energy & Green Tech
The use of in-stream flow (or hydrokinetic) energy converters in rivers appears to offer another workable and effective option to expand renewable energy and limit carbon emissions in the United States. While the potential ...
Aug 27, 2018
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Energy & Green Tech
Steve Hanley certainly wrote what we are all thinking—groan, not another story about a battery "breakthrough." So many blares from a trumpet begin to fall on deaf ears, but the bleats go on. So what and who are we to take ...
Energy & Green Tech
Engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are shining a light on promising new strategies for storing solar power. The efforts could help overcome one major limitation of energy generation from solar sources—namely, ...
Apr 27, 2018
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Energy & Green Tech
Again establishing the University of Maryland (UMD) as a leader in the development of groundbreaking battery technology, a team led by researchers at UMD's A. James Clark School of Engineering has created a water-based zinc ...
Apr 16, 2018
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Energy & Green Tech
Governments need to give technical experts more autonomy and hold their nerve to provide more long-term stability when investing in clean energy, argue researchers in climate change and innovation policy in a new paper published ...
Dec 6, 2017
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Energy & Green Tech
A two-in-one solar bio-battery and solar panel has been created by researchers who printed living cyanobacteria and circuitry onto paper.
Nov 6, 2017
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Energy & Green Tech
There are high hopes for renewable energy to help society by providing a more stable climate, better energy security and less pollution. Government actions reflect these hopes through policies to promote renewable energy. ...
Aug 4, 2017
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Energy & Green Tech
Smart windows equipped with controllable glazing can augment lighting, cooling and heating systems by varying their tint, saving up to 40 percent in an average building's energy costs.
Jun 30, 2017
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Security
When we walk or move, we create kinetic energy in a way that is unique to each of us. Our latest research shows that it's so unique, it can be used to authenticate who we are.
May 24, 2017
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