As Australia's rapid renewable energy rollout continues, so too does debate over land use. Nationals Leader David Littleproud, for example, claimed regional areas had reached "saturation point" a...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-square-kilometers-fulfill-australia-solar.html
Philadelphia has begun pulling large amounts of power for city-owned buildings from a solar array on farmland near Gettysburg.
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-philadelphia-powering-city-hall-airport.html
A pair of environmental engineers at the University of California, Davis, has found that in order to meet the needs of the growing number of electric vehicles (EV) in that state in the coming dec...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-analysis-future-ev-real-world.html
In recent years, researchers have been experimenting with a wide range of solar cell designs in the hope of facilitating their widespread deployment. Organic solar cells based on perovskite mater...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-strategy-boost-efficiency-perovskiteorganic-solar.html
When people think of chemistry, the image that typically comes to mind is a variety of colored liquids in beakers, flasks, and test tubes in a lab. But in actual practice, chemistry can involve m...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-scientists-lithium-kind-chemistry.html
The use of femtosecond lasers to form glass-to-glass welds for solar modules would make the panels easier to recycle, according to a proof-of-concept study conducted by researchers at the U.S. De...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-proof-concept-path-easier-recycling.html
A recent United Nations report found that the world generated 137 billion pounds of electronic waste in 2022, an 82% increase from 2010. Yet less than a quarter of 2022's e-waste was recycled. Wh...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-circuit-boards-recycled.html
Researchers led by Ryuhei Nakamura at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS) in Japan have improved on their green and sustainable method of extracting hydrogen from water by us...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-custom-catalyst-longer-sustainable-green.html
As the old saying goes, two heads are better than one. The same is true when it comes to solar cells working in tandem. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy La...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-outline-path-tandem-solar-cells.html
Gov. Gavin Newsom said on April 25 that California continued to rapidly add the battery storage that is crucial to the transition to cleaner energy, but admitted it was still not enough to avoid ...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-california-battery-storage-rapidly-blackouts.html
Reliably monitoring the amount of lithium (Li) present in rechargeable batteries, specifically in the so-called cathode active material (CAM), is key to understanding the condition of batteries f...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-framework-lithium-battery-results.html
More than 100 facilities designed to remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere are in various stages of development around the world. In the United States, the first direct air capture (DAC...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-team-carbon-capture-global.html
Engineers at Georgia Tech have designed a process that converts carbon dioxide removed from the air into useful raw material that could be used for new plastics, chemicals, or fuels.
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-approach-reusing-captured-carbon-cheaper.html
As summer approaches, electricity demand surges in the U.S., as homes and businesses crank up the air conditioning. To meet the rising need, many East Coast cities are banking on offshore wind pr...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-energy-offshore-farms.html
A green industrial future for Europe may depend on an element that is part of a household staple: table salt. Dr. John Abou-Rjeily, a researcher at Tiamat Energy in France, is using sodium to dev...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-sodium-rechargeable-batteries-bolster-eu.html
The EPA on Thursday announced a series of actions to address pollution from fossil fuel power generators, including a final rule for existing coal-fired and new natural gas-fired plants that will...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-epa-strict-power-legal.html
A team of researchers led by Professor Philip C.Y. Chow from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) has made a significant breakthrough in the field of orga...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-uncover-key-efficient-stable-solar.html
Thermochromic perovskite is a new color switch material used in energy-saving smart windows. Despite its potential for energy savings, thermochromic perovskite suffers from poor weather resistanc...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-mask-perovskite-smart-windows-weather.html
Pacemakers, defibrillators, radar technology and electric vehicles all need electrical components called capacitors that can store and release a lot of energy in a matter of a few microseconds. R...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-storage-efficiency-durability-capacitors.html
In the quest for more efficient and sustainable energy solutions, a multi-university research team has reached a significant milestone in capacitor technology. Researchers from the University of ...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-high-energy-density-capacitors-2d.html
When hurricanes threaten tropical shores, "super grids" could come to the rescue.
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-potential-super-grids-hurricanes-overshadow.html
Researchers have achieved a significant breakthrough in developing a small-scale energy storage device capable of stretching, twisting, folding, and wrinkling. Their study is published in the jou...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-rubber-stretchable-energy-storage-device.html
The industrial production of steel, concrete, or glass requires more than 20% of Germany's total energy consumption. Up to now, 90% of the fuels used for these processes have been of fossil natur...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-liquid-metal-energy-storage.html
As solar energy development accelerates, how do Americans actually feel about those large scale solar, or LSS, farms they see along the highway or near their neighborhood? A new survey has found ...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-survey-positive-perceptions-solar.html
One year ago, Germany took its last three nuclear power stations offline. When it comes to energy, few events have baffled outsiders more.
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-germany-ditched-nuclear-coal-wont.html
For Michael Saliba and Mahdi Malekshahi, it was one of those moments in science when good experimental results raised more questions. The University of Stuttgart researchers recently developed a ...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-insights-gen-solar-cells.html
As a grid-scale energy storage system, flow batteries have gained increasing attention as a means to address the challenges associated with fluctuations and intermittency in renewable energy sour...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-electrodes-energy-storage-batteries.html
Researchers have developed a new manufacturing technique for "silicon/nitrogen-doped carbon composite anode materials." These materials aim to enhance the capacity and stability of lithium-ion ba...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-walled-carbon-nanotubes-doped-nitrogen.html
Whether on Earth or in space, autonomous energy is critical in order to keep power systems running independently for extended periods of time, particularly in remote or unpredictable environments...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-ultra-thin-flexible-solar-cells.html
The future is looking sunny for Kennedy Airport's long-term parking lot No. 9. Construction began on April 23 on a solar array meant to cover some 21 acres of the lot while maintaining the car pa...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-jfk-airport-lot-biggest-solar.html