Energy & Green Tech

A team of researchers from Sandia National Laboratories recently used tethered balloons to collect samples of airborne dust particles to ensure the safety of a falling-particle receiver for concentrating solar power, an emerging solar power technology. Credit: Randy Montoya/Sandia National Laboratories What do tiny dust particles, 22-foot-wide red balloons and...

It's not too often that tours of new buildings start with the toilets. But they're a big part of a different kind of building in Atlanta. And so, Shan Arora, who oversees Georgia Tech's Kendeda Building, troops visitors pretty quickly to a ground floor bathroom where the toilet begins to...

The MoNiKa facility will be used mainly for application-oriented research projects. Credit: Markus Breig/Amadeus Bramsiepe, KIT Low-temperature heat in the form of waste heat from industry or geothermal power plants offers big potential for sustainable and need-tailored power supply. The Modular Low-temperature Cycle Karlsruhe (MoNiKa), the only research facility of...

Chevron announced a strategic hydrogen technology alliance with Toyota, but said it will keep selling gasoline Chevron and Toyota announced Wednesday a first step towards a strategic alliance to commercialize hydrogen, which is seen as an environmentally-friendly transportation fuel option. The alliance, which is centered on the United States, is...

Highly luminescent and stable alpha-FAPbI3 perovskite via HCOO- anion engineering. Credit: Jin Young Kim (UNIST) Perovskites are hybrid compounds that can be made from metal halides and organic constituents. Their attractive structural and electronic properties have placed them at the forefront of materials' research, with enormous potential for transforming a...

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The Finnish energy transition is dominated by mental models drawing from competition, hierarchy and continuous economic growth shows Petra Berg's dissertation in the field of marketing at the University of Vaasa. "Our mental models and beliefs are rooted in the prevailing worldview. However, a sustainable energy...

Credit: Pavel Odinev / Skoltech Skoltech scientists in collaboration with researchers from the University of Arizona and the Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed an approach that allows power grids to return to stability fast after demand response perturbation. Their research at the crossroads of demand response, smart grids, and...

Credit: CC0 Public Domain The number of solar panels within shortest distance from a house is the most important factor in determining the likelihood of that house having a solar panel, when compared with a host of socio-economic and demographic variables. This is shown in a new study by scientists...

The TOPCoRE solar cell achieved 26 percent efficiency, a new world record for both-sides-contacted solar cells. Credit: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft A team of researchers led by Dr. Armin Richter of the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE achieved a record conversion efficiency of 26.0 percent for both-sides contacted silicon solar cells....

Credit: Jaguar Jaguar has pledged to become a fully electric car manufacturer by 2025, phasing out diesel and internal combustion engines as part of its new push to become a luxury brand. In a bold move amid a global pandemic and the UK's departure from the EU, Jaguar is not...

Figure 1: Global emissions per sector. Credit: https://pure.tue.nl/ws/portalfiles/portal/169887108/thesis In order to combat the rise in the average temperature on earth, the emission of greenhouse gases will have to be reduced. In the transport sector, one way to do this is to increase the energy efficiency of the driveline of long-haul...

In this undated file aerial photo is the Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, N.M. The U.S. government plans to build a new transmission line and make other upgrades to ensure its northern New Mexico nuclear weapons laboratory has enough electricity for current and future missions. Officials say one...

The researchers demonstrated their cooling system by building a pavilion in Singapore featuring a system of chilled tubes enclosed within a condensation-preventing membrane. Credit: Lea Ruefenacht A novel system of chilled panels that can replace air conditioning can also help reduce the risk of indoor disease transmission, suggests new analysis...

Cattle rancher Bobby Helmers, 79, has joined the renewable energy revolution, recently allowing utility company Engie to build several wind turbines on his land in Texas Cattle rancher Bobby Helmers cranes to listen as the blades of his six giant wind turbines slice through the air in the same Texas...

Toyota showed off at the Shanghai motor show a number of electric vehicles for the Chinese market, currently the only country where it offers electric versions of its popular models Toyota, which pioneered hybrid cars, unveiled Monday plans for its first global line-up of battery electric vehicles as other carmakers...

Cassidy Anderson, a PNNL post-bachelor intern and Battery500 Consortium team member, holds a pouch cell battery in PNNL's Advanced Battery Facility. The battery is enclosed in a polymer-based pouch containing an aluminum barrier layer to keep it safely sealed in an air-free environment. Credit: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Scientists have...

Recent USU graduate Tarak Saha and three other researchers from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department were issued a patent last month for a DC current source-based power converter. Credit: Steve Johnson A team of researchers from Utah State University's Power Electronics Lab have developed a DC current-to-DC voltage power...

Credit: Shutterstock Rare-earth metals are critical to the high-tech society we live in as an essential component of mobile phones, computers and many other everyday devices. But increasing demand and limited global supply means we must urgently find a way to recover these metals efficiently from discarded products. Rare-earth metals...

Credit: MandriaPix/Shutterstock Throughout the past year of working from home, I have gone for numerous morning, lunchtime and evening walks around my neighborhood in the Eastern parts of Lund in Sweden. My neighborhood has three dams for storing stormwater in the event of extreme rain. These help slow the water...

Jian He is an associate professor in Clemson University's Department of Physics and Astronomy. Credit: Clemson University College of Science Thermoelectrics directly convert heat into electricity and power a wide array of items—from NASA's Perseverance rover currently exploring Mars to travel coolers that chill beverages. A Clemson University physicist has...