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Researchers Develop Materials that Produce Fuels by Consuming Carbon Dioxide

Although the concept of converting carbon dioxide (CO2) into stored energy sounds like science fiction, researchers have continually tried to find simple techniques to transform CO2 into fuels or other functional chemicals.

4 Aug 2016

Battery500 Consortium Aims to Create Next-Generation Lithium-Metal Batteries for Electric Cars

Electric cars with significantly smaller, lighter and less expensive batteries could be on the horizon if a new national research effort achieves its ambitious goal of significantly improving upon the batteries that power today's electric vehicles.

28 Jul 2016

TPV Could Offer New Pathway for Efficiently Producing Electrical Power from Solar Thermal Sources

A new wrinkle on an old technology – solid-state thermophotovoltaics (TPV) – could provide a high-efficiency alternative for directly converting high-temperature heat from concentrated solar thermal to utility-scale electricity.

28 Jul 2016

Biological Engineers Decipher Cellular Strategy to Make Biofuel Ethanol Using Industrial Waste Gas

Cornell University biological engineers have deciphered the cellular strategy to make the biofuel ethanol, using an anaerobic microbe feeding on carbon monoxide - a common industrial waste gas.

27 Jul 2016

ASU Researchers Explore Idea of Creating Fuels from Thin Air

Nonrenewable fossil fuels give liquid fuels a bad name.

22 Jul 2016

New Improved Method for Harvesting Water from Air

Making water accessible to those living in dry areas of the world has always been a difficult task. In order to overcome this challenge the option of harvesting water from air has been considered, but the technology to make this possible consumes a lot of energy.

21 Jul 2016

Energy Conversion Efficiency Exceeding 18% Achieved Using Standard Size Perovskite Solar Cells

A research group led by Liyuan Han, a leader of the Photovoltaic Materials Group, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), achieved energy conversion efficiency exceeding 18% using standard size (1 cm2) perovskite solar cells for the first time in the world.

15 Jul 2016

IKEA Plans for Biogas-Powered Fuel Cell Systems at Four More California Stores

IKEA, the world’s leading home furnishings retailer, today announced it is furthering its renewable commitment with plans for biogas-powered fuel cell systems at four more of its California stores.

15 Jul 2016

Researchers Develop New Pricing System to Make Charging Electric Vehicles More Effective

Research at Southampton has developed a new pricing system based on online auction platforms, to make charging electric vehicles more effective. We are also investigating how batteries can give power back to the National Grid when the electric cars are not being used.

15 Jul 2016

Bioenergy Crops May Help Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions Even Before Harvested for Fuel

To help stakeholders in government and business make smart decisions about the best types of land and local climates for planting bioenergy crops, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Argonne National Laboratory are using computational modeling to predict which counties could see increases in soil organic carbon from cultivation of crops like switchgrass for biofuels.

14 Jul 2016