Photovoltaic installations will have a huge impact on future energy systems, so it is crucial to know their performance at local, regional and global levels. A historically accurate model has now been set up with all data made available via open license.
Jul 1st, 2019
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Imagine if your printer had an 'unprint' button that used pulses of light to remove toner, curbing environmental impacts compared with conventional paper recycling.
Jun 26th, 2019
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Researchers have tested floating photocatalysts and solar radiation as the sole reagent, an efficient and economical process that is easy to implement and compatible with the environment.
Jun 24th, 2019
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A new study found that by mid-century climate change will increase the demand for energy globally, even with modest warming.
Jun 24th, 2019
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Scientists brought real-world conditions into the controlled environment of the lab. Using data from a weather station they reproduced the real-world temperature and irradiance profiles from specific days during the course of the year. With this approach, the scientists were able to quantify the energy yield of the devices under realistic conditions.
Jun 21st, 2019
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Researchers have developed a new material capable of capturing the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide with the key ingredient being a common epoxy resin you probably have at home.
Jun 19th, 2019
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Researchers present an organic catalyst for carbon dioxide (CO2) reduction that is inexpensive, readily available and recyclable. As the level of catalytic activity can be tuned by the solvent conditions, their findings could open up many new directions for converting CO2 to industrially useful organic compounds.
Jun 17th, 2019
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The discovery of an Earth-abundant catalyst promises to make the production of hydrogen fuel more feasible.
Jun 7th, 2019
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Researchers aim to use the climate-damaging greenhouse gas carbon dioxide as a raw material for the production of chemicals. To do this, they are developing a combined plasma and membrane process that splits CO2 into oxygen and the chemical base material carbon monoxide.
Jun 4th, 2019
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Huge floating solar islands on the ocean that produce enough energy to enable CO2-neutral global freight traffic - what sounds like science fiction researchers have now calculated for the first time.
Jun 4th, 2019
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Dry electrode coating technology allows environmentally friendly battery cell production.
Jun 3rd, 2019
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Producing cement takes a big toll on our climate: Around eight per cent of annual global carbon dioxide emissions can be attributed to this process. However, the demand for cement continues to rise. A team of geoscientists has found a way to produce more environmentally friendly and sustainable alternatives.
May 20th, 2019
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E-waste recycling is far below what it should be to reduce its impact on the environment and human health simply because it is not economically feasible. Researchers are working on a way to change that using pulsed power technology.
May 15th, 2019
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Tiny light-emitting microalgae, found in the ocean, could hold the secret to the next generation of organic solar cells.
May 10th, 2019
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Using an infrared photodiode pointed to the sky, a new device harvests energy from the temperature difference between Earth and near absolute zero temperatures of deep space.
May 6th, 2019
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Scientists have designed a recyclable plastic that, like a Lego playset, can be disassembled into its constituent parts at the molecular level, and then reassembled into a different shape, texture, and color again and again without loss of performance or quality.
May 6th, 2019
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Researchers have discovered a remarkable means of making organic solar panels more robust, including conferring resistance to oxygen, water and light by doing the opposite: removing, not adding, material.
May 2nd, 2019
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Researchers have created a smart device capable of producing large amounts of clean hydrogen. By concentrating sunlight, their device uses a smaller amount of the rare, costly materials that are required to produce hydrogen, yet it still maintains a high solar-to-fuel efficiency.
Apr 29th, 2019
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