Energy & Green Tech
Engineers at the University of Maryland have found that porous types of wood from trees like poplar and pine can greatly increase the efficiency of water-to-steam conversion under sunlight. The findings, published November ...
Nov 15, 2017
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Energy & Green Tech
(Tech Xplore)—A company has an ambitious plan: To build the world's largest battery. Germany is the hatching grounds. Ewe Gasspeicher, subsidiary of utility company Ewe, is talking about its plan with an approach that centers ...
Energy & Green Tech
On a gray, foggy day in May 2021, a rust-kissed barge carried three shed-sized tidal turbines—each mounted on the points of a triangular steel frame—through New York City's East River. Although the three turbines appeared ...
Oct 20, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Did you know rivers carry about 40 trillion metric tons of river water into the ocean every year? This meeting point, known as the estuary, holds great potential for electricity generation.
Jul 27, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Researchers from Tel Aviv University have succeeded in producing "green" hydrogen using green electricity—The hydrogen is produced without air pollution, with a high level of efficiency, utilizing a biocatalyst. Hydrogen ...
Jul 17, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
New Jersey's Canoe Brook Water Treatment plant produces 14 millions gallons of drinking water a day.
Jun 6, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Water blankets around 70 percent of the Earth's surface. Moreover, 97 percent of all the water on earth is seawater, which is undrinkable because of its salt content. But what if we could harness its potential as a new source ...
Apr 27, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
A startup business that places small turbines in irrigation canals to generate electricity has raised $18.4 million to scale up its technology for carbon-free hydropower.
Apr 13, 2023
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Engineering
Strange things are happening in salt water.
Feb 22, 2023
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Researcher Sveinung Attestog shows in a new study how we can more quickly detect faults in machines that are widely used in wind turbines and electric cars. This is something that could pay off for electricity customers and ...
Dec 20, 2022
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