Energy & Green Tech
Scientists from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have developed a simple way to better evaluate the potential of novel materials to store or release heat on demand in your home, office, or other building in ...
Feb 16, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
Solar and wind power are an important part of solving the problem of climate change, but these renewable technologies on their own probably will never provide the energy for many industrial processes, like making steel.
Aug 13, 2020
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Engineering
A research group from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, has made great strides toward the development of a specially designed molecule which can store solar energy for later use. These advances have been presented ...
Oct 3, 2018
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Energy & Green Tech
Dr. Choongho Yu, Gulf Oil/Thomas A. Dietz Career Development Professor II in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University, and his graduate student group has developed a new concept of electrical energy ...
Nov 11, 2016
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Engineering
From keeping warm in the winter to doing laundry, heat is crucial to daily life. But as the world grapples with climate change, buildings' increasing energy consumption is a critical problem. Currently, heat is produced by ...
Jul 24, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Anyone who has ever hot-footed it barefoot across the beach on a sunny day walks away with a greater understanding of just how much heat sand can retain. That ability is expected to play a vital role in the future, as technology ...
Mar 29, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Australia's transition to renewables is gathering speed, but there's a looming problem with storage. We will need much more long-duration storage to get us through the night, once coal and fossil gas exit the system.
Apr 11, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Aquifer thermal energy storage systems can largely contribute to climate-friendly heating and cooling of buildings: Heated water is stored underground and pumped up, if needed. Researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology ...
Nov 22, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Southwest Research Institute worked with government and commercial collaborators to successfully develop and demonstrate full-scale turbomachinery for one of the world's first supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2) power systems ...
Jan 17, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
On the way toward a CO2-neutral energy system, storage of large amounts of energy is still an unsolved problem. In the future, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), the German Aerospace Center (DLR), and Stuttgart University ...
Oct 18, 2018
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