Energy & Green Tech
Since the pandemic struck, most people have been spending the majority of their time in the house. Those working from home have become ever more reliant on electricity for running office essentials, including computers, printers, ...
Sep 10, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
Heating and air conditioning in buildings make up almost half of the total energy consumption in the European Union. What is more, nearly 75% relies on fossil fuels, according to data from the European Commission. Hence, ...
May 28, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
When fish stocks crashed in the Baltic in the late 1990s, the islanders of Bornholm, Denmark, realised they had to reinvent themselves. Their rocky outcrop, some 200km east of Copenhagen, had been in decline for years. Its ...
Apr 28, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
A completely passive solar-powered desalination system developed by researchers at MIT and in China could provide more than 1.5 gallons of fresh drinking water per hour for every square meter of solar collecting area. Such ...
Feb 7, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
Researchers at Penn State are looking at innovative ways to improve energy storage in an effort to better utilize renewable energy technologies.
Jan 31, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
The amount of energy produced by renewable sources ebbs and flows. The Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics ITWM has found a smart work-around for these fluctuations. Its scientists developed an innovative energy ...
Jan 7, 2020
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Consumer & Gadgets
The concept of the smart home has been around for many decades, but it is only in recent years with the advent of the so-called "internet of things," IoT, that meters and monitoring, cameras, locking systems, heating systems, ...
Dec 12, 2019
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Engineering
Scientists from the Thermal and Energy Systems Engineering research group (Istener) at the Universitat Jaume I, in collaboration with the company Rank, have developed the first functional prototype of a high-temperature heat ...
Sep 12, 2019
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Energy & Green Tech
The main solution to climate change is well known—stop burning fossil fuels. How to do this is more complicated, but as a scholar who does energy modeling, I and others see the outlines of a post-fossil-fuel future: We ...
Aug 22, 2019
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Energy & Green Tech
The warmer it gets, the more people crank up the air conditioning (AC). In fact, AC is booming in nations across the world: it's predicted that around two thirds of the world's households could have an air conditioner by ...
Jul 26, 2019
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