Despairing about climate change? These four charts on the unstoppable growth of solar may change your mind
Last year, the world built more new solar capacity than every other power source combined.
May 12, 2023
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Team develops a faster, cheaper way to train large language models
A Stanford team has developed Sophia, a new way to optimize the pretraining of large language models that's twice as fast as current approaches.
Jul 3, 2023
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How power-to-X technology could help decarbonise Indonesia's industrial sector
As one of the world's leading economies, Indonesia has announced an ambitious plan to build a green industrial park in North Kalimantan.
Jan 17, 2022
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Thermal energy storage could play major role in decarbonizing buildings
Could a tank of ice or hot water be a battery? Yes! If a battery is a device for storing energy, then storing hot or cold water to power a building's heating or air-conditioning system is a different type of energy storage. ...
Nov 18, 2021
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Scientists create renewable biocement made entirely from waste materials
Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have found a way to create biocement from waste, making the alternative to regular cement even greener and more sustainable.
May 13, 2022
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Accelerating sustainable semiconductors with 'multielement ink'
Semiconductors are the heart of almost every electronic device. Without semiconductors, our computers would not be able to process and retain data; and LED (light-emitting diode) lightbulbs would lose their ability to shine.
Sep 28, 2023
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$9.5 bn of key metals in overlooked electronic waste: UN
Consumers discard or possess disused electronic goods containing raw materials critical for the green energy transition and worth almost $10 billion every year, the United Nations said on Thursday.
Oct 12, 2023
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New class of cobalt-free cathodes could enhance energy density of next-gen lithium-ion batteries
Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers have developed a new family of cathodes with the potential to replace the costly cobalt-based cathodes typically found in today's lithium-ion batteries that power electric vehicles ...
Dec 19, 2020
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Breaking barriers in solar energy
Stop for a moment and imagine an efficient highway system. No need to jockey for position, no choke-point merging from three lanes into one, no long idles at ill-timed traffic lights, no rolling roadblocks as the motorist ...
Jan 9, 2019
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Making cement sustainable
Cement production accounts for up to nine percent of global anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions, according to the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. Sabbie Miller, assistant professor in the Department ...
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