Renewable Energy

    Duke team Creates Fully Recyclable Printed Electronics

    Researchers at Duke University have created transistors with three carbon-based inks. The all-carbon thin-film transistors were made using crystalline nanocellulose as a dielectric, carbon...

    Vertical Turbines could be The Future for Wind Farms

    The now-familiar sight of traditional propeller wind turbines could be replaced in the future with wind farms containing more compact and efficient vertical turbines....

    Energy-Saving Gas Turbine from the 3D Printer

    3D printing has opened up a completely new range of possibilities. One example is the production of novel turbine buckets. However, the 3D printing...

    Solar-Powered Desalination Unit Shows Great Promise

    Despite the vast amount of water on Earth, most of it is nonpotable seawater. Freshwater accounts for only about 2.5% of the total, so...

    Small Energy Companies Betting Against Quick Energy Transition

    For all the talk of a transition away from fossil fuels, players in the energy sector are still willing to bet there is more...

    Researchers Demonstrate Fully Recyclable Printed Electronics

    Engineers at Duke University have developed the world's first fully recyclable printed electronics. By demonstrating a crucial and relatively complex computer component—the transistor—created with...

    Researchers Show Enhanced Electrode-Water Interactions in Metal-Free Aqueous Batteries

    Batteries are a part of everyday modern life, powering everything from laptops, phones, and robot vacuums to hearing aids, pacemakers, and even electric cars....

    Morrison Pushes Extra Funds For Carbon Capture, Hydrogen Production

    Australia’s prime minister has proposed spending an extra 539 million Australian dollars ($417 million) on hydrogen and carbon sequestration projects, seeking to burnish his...

    Sustainable Electricity Generation at Low Temperatures

    Low-Temperature heat in the form of waste heat from industry or geothermal power plants offers big potential for sustainable and need-tailored power supply. The...

    Perovskites Solar Cells Exceed 25% Power-Conversion Efficiency

    Perovskites are hybrid compounds that can be made from metal halides and organic constituents. Their attractive structural and electronic properties have placed them at...

    Flexible Solar PV Tools for the Next Generation

    It was only in the middle of the last decade, but it might have been an age ago. Touring the premises of leading production...

    I’ve got Solar Over My Skin

    Scientists from the Hiroshima University and the University of Tokyo in Japan have developed an ultrathin self-powered organic optical system for applications in the...

    Researchers Creating a Safer, Cleaner Way to Recover Rare-Earth Metals

    Rare-earth metals are critical to the high-tech society we live in as an essential component of mobile phones, computers, and many other everyday devices....

    India to Spend $200 Million to Promote Hydrogen Use

    India has asked its state-run oil and gas companies to set up seven hydrogen pilot plants by the end of this financial year, India's...

    Researchers Develop DC Converter for Long-Distance, Underwater Electric Grids

    A team of researchers from Utah State University's Power Electronics Lab has developed a DC current-to-DC voltage power converter. This converter is equipped for...

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