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A new Energy Department study conducted by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) indicates that by 2025 wind and solar power electricity generation could become cost-competitive without federal subsidies, if new renewable energy development occurs in the most productive locations.
Aug 26th, 2013
Read moreThe EU-funded MANUCLOUD (Distributed Cloud product specification and supply chain manufacturing execution infrastructure) project, which was completed in July 2013, sought to boost European competitiveness by establishing a functioning online marketplace that would benefit manufacturers, suppliers and customers.
Aug 23rd, 2013
Read moreA consortium led by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed a new technology that captures the carbon dioxide emissions of power plants more economically and ecologically.
Aug 22nd, 2013
Read moreA fungus and E. coli bacteria have joined forces to turn tough, waste plant material into isobutanol, a biofuel that matches gasoline's properties better than ethanol.
Aug 20th, 2013
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Design may support widespread use of solar and wind energy.
Aug 15th, 2013
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Joint BioEnergy Institute researchers combine pretreatment and saccharification into single vat process.
Aug 15th, 2013
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One out of ten people on Earth is likely to live in a climate impact hotspot by the end of this century, if greenhouse gas emissions continue unabated. Many more are put at risk in a worst-case scenario of the combined impacts on crop yields, water availability, ecosystems, and health, according to a new study.
Aug 15th, 2013
Read moreGood metal-based systems for hydrogen storage cannot be developed without knowing how this element permeates through metals. Researchers at the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw managed to apply a user-friendly electrochemical method to study hydrogen diffusion in highly reactive metals.
Aug 14th, 2013
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A new review article provides what is a necessary science base for auto and engine manufacturers to build the next generation of cleaner, more fuel-efficient engines usinglow-temperature combustion.
Aug 13th, 2013
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Novel cathode materials for SOFC with high performance and strong reliability at the intermediate temperature.
Aug 13th, 2013
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Researchers develop one of the first combined solar/thermal energy generators. It can suck up the heat of a hot summer's day and turn it into electricity.
Aug 13th, 2013
Read moreInspired by prickly cacti, scientists have developed a new technique for removing oil from water, which could have applications in oil spill clean-up work.
Aug 12th, 2013
Read moreIn order to successfully convert biomass into fuel, researchers have developed a roadmap of chemical reactions. Each of these reactions requires either a different catalytic material or a different set of reaction conditions to work effectively.
Aug 9th, 2013
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Scientists have developed a method that accurately predicts the adsorptive properties of crystalline MTV-MOF systems synthesized with different combinations of functional chemical groups.
Aug 9th, 2013
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A new cost-effective polymer membrane can decrease the cost of alkaline batteries and fuel cells by allowing the replacement of expensive platinum catalysts without sacrificing important aspects of performance, according to Penn State researchers.
Aug 7th, 2013
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A new process can convert a wide variety of vegetable and animal fats and oils - ranging from lard to waste cooking oil - into a key ingredient for making plastics that currently comes from petroleum.
Aug 7th, 2013
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