Energy & Green Tech
Imagine a household that consumes 1,000 kilowatt hours of energy per month. Then they install solar panels on their roof that generate 500 kilowatt hours of electricity per month on average. How much should their consumption ...
Nov 20, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
USC scientists have developed a new battery that could solve the electricity storage problem constraining widespread use of renewable energy.
Apr 9, 2020
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Range anxiety, the fear of running out of power before being able to recharge an electric vehicle, may be a thing of the past, according to a team of Penn State engineers who are looking at lithium iron phosphate batteries ...
Jan 18, 2021
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Engineering
Clean energy is the leading solution for climate change. But solar and wind power are inconsistent at producing enough energy for a reliable power grid. Alternatively, lithium-ion batteries can store energy but are a limited ...
Jan 13, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Because the sun does not shine at night but all our screens do, we need energy storage to shift solar energy production during the day to when it is needed in the evening. To cope with this intermittence of renewables, we ...
Energy & Green Tech
People are increasingly trying to grow both food and clean energy on the same land to help meet the challenges of climate change, drought and a growing global population that just topped 8 billion. This effort includes agrivoltaics, ...
Dec 6, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
As electric car sales take off and petrol engines face being phased out by 2035, Europe is looking to develop its own battery production base.
Jul 25, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
The rust-colored tower rising from an industrial site near the banks of Berlin's Spree river looks nothing like the sleek flasks Germans use for coffee, yet its purpose is similar: to provide some warmth throughout the day, ...
Jun 30, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
New data indicates that electric vehicles may not be an easy future substitute for the gasoline-powered fleet, as EVs are currently being used half as much as conventional cars. That is according to a paper published from ...
Feb 9, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
Scientists at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) and the Federal University of the ABC (UFABC) in São Paulo state, Brazil, have successfully produced biogas from apple pomace, the pulpy residue remaining after the ...
Feb 9, 2023
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