Salt power: Watt's next in rechargeable batteries?
Reza Shahbazian-Yassar thinks sodium might be the next big thing in rechargeable batteries.
Oct 8th, 2012
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Study reveals how solvent mixtures affect organic solar cell structure
Controlling "mixing" between acceptor and donor layers, or solar cell domains, in polymer-based solar cells could increase their efficiency, according to a team of researchers that included physicists from North Carolina State University. Their findings shed light on the inner workings of these solar cells, and could lead to further improvements in efficiency.
Oct 4th, 2012
Read moreEnough wind to power global energy demand
New research from Carnegie's Ken Caldeira examines the limits of the amount of power that could be harvested from winds, as well as the effects high-altitude wind power could have on the climate as a whole.
Sep 9th, 2012
Read moreLEDs winning light race to save energy, the environment
Report compares environmental impacts of LED, CFL and incandescent lights.
Sep 5th, 2012
Read moreMore carbon dioxide leads to less clouds
A new feedback mechanism operating between vegetation and cloud formation could enhance the climate change.
Sep 3rd, 2012
Read moreDelivering solar geoengineering materials may be feasible and affordable
A cost analysis of the technologies needed to transport materials into the stratosphere to reduce the amount of sunlight hitting Earth and therefore reduce the effects of global climate change has shown that they are both feasible and affordable.
Aug 31st, 2012
Read moreA long-term view of critical materials: From coal to ytterbium
Berkeley Lab scientists take a multidisciplinary approach to becoming more resilient to current and future materials shortages.
Aug 28th, 2012
Read moreWhat motivates rejection of (climate) science?
Researchers from The University of Western Australia have examined what motivates people who are greatly involved in the climate debate to reject scientific evidence.
Aug 23rd, 2012
Read moreOrganic waste from the racing weekend to be turned into valuable compost
Lausitzring and BASF launch pilot project with compostable and disposable tableware at the ADAC Masters Weekend.
Aug 22nd, 2012
Read moreBiorefinery makes use of every bit of a soybean
Scientists today unveiled new technology intended to move soybeans, second only to corn as the top food crop in the U.S., along that same use-to-all path as a raw material for a wider portfolio of products.
Aug 22nd, 2012
Read moreScientists put spotlight on marine power
A team of researchers from Israel and the United Kingdom has discovered that energy produced from the planet's oceans can increase twofold when novel methods for predicting wave power are used.
Aug 22nd, 2012
Read moreNew solar panels made with more common metals could be cheaper and more sustainable
With enough sunlight falling on home roofs to supply at least half of America's electricity, scientists have described advances toward the less-expensive solar energy technology needed to roof many of those homes with shingles that generate electricity.
Aug 21st, 2012
Read moreSpeeding the search for better carbon capture
A computer model that can identify the best molecular candidates for removing carbon dioxide, molecular nitrogen and other greenhouse gases from power plant flues has been developed by researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)?s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), the University of California (UC) Berkeley and the University of Minnesota. The model is the first computational method to provide accurate simulations of the interactions between flue gases and a special variety of the gas-capturing molecular systems known as metal-organic frameworks (MOFs).
Aug 21st, 2012
Read moreAs smart electric grid evolves, engineers show how to include solar technologies
An economically feasible way to store solar energy in existing residential power networks is the subject of an award winning paper written by two Virginia Tech electrical engineers and presented at an international conference.
Aug 18th, 2012
Read moreUsing evolution to understand pollution
Life evolved in a toxic world long before humans began polluting it, according to a University of Massachusetts environmental toxicologist, who added that understanding life's evolutionary response to environmental poisons can help people to fight destructive effects.
Aug 17th, 2012
Read moreResearchers find material for cleaner-running diesel vehicles
Engineers at a company co-founded by a University of Texas at Dallas professor have identified a material that can reduce the pollution produced by vehicles that run on diesel fuel.
Aug 17th, 2012
Read moreA urine based 'potion' can act as a CO2 absorbent
A Spanish researcher has proposed human, agricultural and livestock waste, such as urine, as a way to absorb CO2.
Aug 17th, 2012
Read moreWater sustainability flows through human-nature interactions
Water's fate in China mirrors problems across the world: fouled, pushed far from its natural origins, squandered and exploited.
Aug 15th, 2012
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