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A ground-breaking fusion reactor built by Chinese scientists is underscoring Beijing's determination to be at the core of clean energy technology, as it eyes a fully-functioning plant by 2050.

https://phys.org/news/2019-04-china-quest-limitless-energy.html

A Dutchman completed an epic 95,000 kilometre (59,000 mile) journey by electric car in Sydney Sunday in a bid to prove the viability of such vehicles in tackling climate change.

https://phys.org/news/2019-04-dutchman-world-longest-electric-car.html

Global energy demand will surge by a third over the next two decades on advancing prosperity, but Indian demand growth will eclipse that of flagging giant China, Britain's BP forecast Thursday.

https://phys.org/news/2019-02-global-energy-demand-soar-bp.html

In a study to publish in Nature on January 31, researchers at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) report advances in the development of hydrogen fuel cells that could increas...

https://phys.org/news/2019-01-scientists-fuel-cells-cold.html

Conventional lithium ion batteries, such as those widely used in smartphones and notebooks, have reached performance limits. Materials chemist Freddy Kleitz from the Faculty of Chemistry of the U...

https://phys.org/news/2018-12-lithium-ion-batteries.html

Materials scientists at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) have achieved a new record in the performance of organic, non-fullerene-based, single-junction solar cells. Using...

https://phys.org/news/2018-11-fine-tuning-record-breaking.html

In the fight against global warming, bioethanol fuel is seen as a climate-friendly alternative to petrol and its adoption has been encouraged by many governments. But producing it requires huge a...

https://phys.org/news/2018-10-seawater-breakthrough-production-climate-friendly-fuel.html

In a new scientific article, researchers at Uppsala University describe how, using a completely new method, they have synthesised an artificial enzyme that functions in the metabolism of living c...

https://phys.org/news/2018-10-artificial-enzymes-solar-energy-hydrogen.html

A model that simulates how drilling fluids, or muds, behave and influence the stability of oil wells has been developed by KAUST researchers. Their findings could inform new safety protocols and ...

https://phys.org/news/2018-10-smart-mud-smooth-drilling-wells.html

Remote villages in Africa and Asia are receiving electricity using a little-known type of technology: zinc-air batteries.

https://phys.org/news/2018-09-zinc-air-batteries-power-remote-areas.html

Bioscience engineers at KU Leuven, Belgium, already knew how to make gasoline in the laboratory from plant waste such as sawdust. Now, the researchers have developed a road map, as it were, for i...

https://phys.org/news/2018-09-ready-to-use-recipe-gasoline.html

Most of today's batteries are made up of rare lithium mined from the mountains of South America. If the world depletes this source, then battery production could stagnate.

https://phys.org/news/2018-09-super-cheap-earth-element-advance.html

New technological developments by UNIST researchers promise to significantly boost the performance of lithium metal batteries in promising research for the next-generation of rechargeable batteri...

https://phys.org/news/2018-09-approach-battery.html

Germany on Monday rolled out the world's first hydrogen-powered train, signalling the start of a push to challenge the might of polluting diesel trains with costlier but more eco-friendly technol...

https://phys.org/news/2018-09-germany-world-hydrogen.html

What will it take to save this blue marble we call Earth?

https://phys.org/news/2018-09-earth-health-benefit-space-solar.html

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have identified two main challenges for renewable biofuel production from cheap sources: First, lowering the cost of developing microbial...

https://phys.org/news/2018-09-barriers-opportunities-renewable-biofuels-production.html

Solar-powered water splitting is a promising means of generating clean and storable energy. A novel catalyst based on semiconductor nanoparticles has now been shown to facilitate all the reaction...

https://phys.org/news/2018-09-all-in-one-light-driven.html

A Belgian cyclist rode 12,000 kilometres (7,500 miles) from the French city of Lyon to the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou in just 49 days to win an inaugural solar-powered electric bike race ...

https://phys.org/news/2018-08-belgian-inaugural-france-china-solar.html

In perovskite solar cells, charge carriers are mainly lost through recombination occurring at interface defect sites. In contrast, recombination at defect sites within the perovskite layer does n...

https://phys.org/news/2018-08-insight-loss-perovskite-solar-cells.html

New research from Idaho National Laboratory suggests that electric vehicle drivers could face longer charging times when temperatures drop. The reason: cold temperatures impact the electrochemica...

https://phys.org/news/2018-08-ev-cold-temperatures-pose-drivers.html

Policies to entice consumers away from fossil-fuel powered vehicles and normalize low-carbon alternatives such as electric vehicles are vital if the world is to significantly reduce transport sec...

https://phys.org/news/2018-07-behavior-influencing-policies-critical-mass-success.html

Driving through the endless dunes and cacti of the Chihuahuan desert in northern Mexico, a shimmering blue field suddenly appears on the horizon—not a mirage, but the largest solar park in Lati...

https://phys.org/news/2018-07-latin-america-largest-solar-mexican.html

Could nuclear power make a significant contribution to decarbonizing the U.S. energy system over the next three or four decades? That is the question asked by four current and former researchers ...

https://phys.org/news/2018-07-nuclear-industry.html

The University of Surrey has helped to create a technique that has produced the highest performing inverted perovskite solar cell ever recorded.

https://phys.org/news/2018-06-team-breakthrough-perovskite-solar-cell.html

Russian researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), the Technological Institute for Superhard and Novel Carbon Materials (TISNCM), and the National University of Scien...

https://phys.org/news/2018-06-prototype-nuclear-battery-power.html

A team of academic researchers is seeking clarity on predictive plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) models. An examination of more than three dozen studies is providing some meaningful insights.

https://phys.org/news/2018-05-global-pulse-electric-vehicles.html

Using electric vehicles (EVs) as mobile power storage could eliminate the need to build costly stationary grid storage for energy from renewable sources.

https://phys.org/news/2018-05-electric-vehicles-billions-energy-storage.html

A 10-fold increase in the ability to harvest mechanical and thermal energy over standard piezoelectric composites may be possible using a piezoelectric ceramic foam supported by a flexible polyme...

https://phys.org/news/2018-05-flexible-highly-efficient-multimodal-energy.html

The world is a big place, but it's gotten smaller with the advent of technologies that put people from across the globe in the palm of one's hand. And as the world has shrunk, it has also demande...

https://phys.org/news/2018-05-self-assembling-d-battery-seconds.html

Charging an electric car away from home can be an exercise in uncertainty—hunting for that one lonely station at the back of a rest-area parking lot and hoping it's working.

https://phys.org/news/2018-05-europe-electric-car-network.html