Researchers are scaling up a prototype iron-flow battery to provide cleaner and cheaper power when renewable energy sources are ebbing or demand is peaking. The battery would also efficiently store excess electricity when use is low.
Dec 8th, 2016
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Engineers have developed a new concept for current and voltage sensors for batteries that might become particularly relevant for electric vehicles.
Dec 8th, 2016
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A chemical engineering team identifies new catalyst that advances capture and conversion of atmospheric carbon dioxide.
Dec 7th, 2016
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The characterization of compounds produced in combustion could lead to cleaner, more efficient power stations.
Dec 5th, 2016
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The world will not be able to reach the goals of the Paris Agreement without technology capable of capturing, transporting and storing CO2.
Dec 5th, 2016
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Simpler process and higher efficiency creates great expectations for consumer market.
Dec 1st, 2016
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New work demonstrates that it is possible to combine the high-energy density of batteries with the high-power output of super capacitors in a single system - thanks to liquid energy storage materials.
Dec 1st, 2016
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Researchers have developed a polymer which can store hydrogen in a light, compact and flexible sheet, and is safe to touch even when filled with hydrogen gas.
Nov 28th, 2016
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New research shows that sewage contains a source of energy that can be harvested by using hungry bacteria.
Nov 25th, 2016
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The European Commission's Joint Research Centre has produced a dataset of wind energy production (EMHIRES) at national, regional and local level across the EU, by the hour for the last 30 years, based on existing wind farms.
Nov 23rd, 2016
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In future, greenhouse gas carbon dioxide could be removed from the atmosphere by deploying a new biological method. Scientists have developed a synthetic but completely biological metabolic pathway based on the model of photosynthesis that fixes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere 20% more efficiently that plants can photosynthetically.
Nov 21st, 2016
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The optimized process of microbial electrosynthesis opens up further perspectives for the future production of biofuel or for the storage of power from regenerative sources in the form of chemical products, for instance.
Nov 21st, 2016
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A new study has found that within two years, carbon dioxide injected into basalt transformed into solid rock.
Nov 18th, 2016
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A dye called BODIPY has special chemical properties that could facilitate energy storage, study finds.
Nov 17th, 2016
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Standardized reporting of energy conversion efficiency could help to develop photocatalysts to produce renewable fuels.
Nov 15th, 2016
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Researchers have developed a hybrid of a fuel cell and capacitor on a biocatalytic basis. With the aid of enzymatic processes, what's known as a biosupercapacitor efficiently generates and stores energy.
Nov 15th, 2016
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