Energy & Green Tech
With a lot of solar and wind power, energy storage, and advanced extreme weather impact modeling, Puerto Rico could achieve a 100% renewable power grid by 2050. These and other recommendations are the results of the "Puerto ...
Feb 8, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Supercapacitors, also known as ultracapacitors or electric double-layer capacitors (EDLCs), are advanced energy storage devices with unique characteristics. Unlike traditional batteries, supercapacitors store energy through ...
Feb 1, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Enhanced geothermal systems (EGSs) are human-made or enriched reservoirs within the Earth's subsurface, from which heat can be extracted to produce geothermal energy. The energy produced by these reservoirs could serve as ...
Energy & Green Tech
Solar and wind power may be free, renewable fuels, but they also depend on natural processes that humans cannot control. It's one thing to acknowledge the risks that come with renewable energy: the sun doesn't always shine ...
Dec 11, 2023
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Engineering
Southwest Research Institute has developed a new modular steel buttress dam system designed to resolve energy storage issues hindering the integration of renewable resources into the energy mix. The m-Presa modular steel ...
Oct 10, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
The U.K. government must kick-start the construction of large-scale hydrogen storage facilities if it is to meet its pledge that all electricity will come from low carbon sources by 2035 and reach legally binding net zero ...
Sep 20, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Hotter summers, drier forests, rising waters: climate change is not just a threat to our future, it's hurting our world right now.
Sep 13, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Tens of thousands of small-scale hydro energy storage sites could be built from Australia's farm dams, supporting the uptake of reliable, low-carbon power systems in rural communities, new UNSW-Sydney-led research suggests.
Sep 7, 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
Picture this: two farms—one growing tomatoes and the other producing dairy—decide to install solar panels on their properties and share electricity with each other.
Jul 27, 2023
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