Energy & Green Tech
A recent analysis shows that renewable energy could be a viable alternative to diesel fuel for science at the South Pole. The analysis deeply explores the feasibility of replacing part of the energy production at the South ...
Apr 8, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Panasonic's new US$4 billion battery factory in De Soto, Kansas, is designed to be a model of sustainability—it's an all-electric factory with no need for a smokestack. When finished, it will cover the size of 48 football ...
Apr 3, 2024
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Researchers in the UNC-Chapel Hill Chemistry Department are using semiconductors to harvest and convert the sun's energy into high-energy compounds that have the potential to produce environmentally friendly fuels.
Apr 2, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
The United States could triple its current economy by producing more than 1 billion tons per year of plant-based biomass for renewable fuels while meeting projected demands for food, feed, fiber, conventional forest products, ...
Mar 18, 2024
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Engineering
A ship powered by renewable energy, including hydrogen produced onboard, is docked in the southeastern US state of Florida this week as it prepares to finish the last leg of a voyage around the world.
Feb 28, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Existing measures to cajole companies to decarbonize, with subsidies for renewable energy and carbon taxes, have failed to prevent global emissions rising. Does state ownership, particularly in the energy sector, make this ...
Feb 19, 2024
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Business
A study, published in One Earth, is the first to analyze the interplay of electrification and hydrogen in EU climate neutrality scenarios at greater sectoral detail. The analysis shows higher potential for electrification ...
Feb 16, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
A team in Turkey has tested different machine-learning algorithms for predicting electricity demand from different sources. They trained the algorithms on electricity demand data for the period 2000–2022 and used them to ...
Jan 25, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
The hurrying pace of societal electrification is encouraging from a climate perspective. But the transition away from fossil fuels toward renewable sources like wind presents new risks that are not yet fully understood.
Jan 24, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Transport is likely the hardest economic sector to decarbonize. And road vehicles produce the most greenhouse gas emissions of the Australian transport sector—85% of its total. Freight trucks account for only 8% of travel ...
Jan 18, 2024
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