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New System Could Help Make Supply of Renewable Electricity More Stable

Grid operators need to do more than just distributing the electricity produced by photovoltaic plants and wind farms. They have to ensure a regular quality of supply as well. It is a complex issue to achieve this with the available components and systems.

29 Nov 2017

U of T Researchers Develop Innovative Catalyst for Simulating Photosynthesis

Scientists from U of T Engineering have now reached close to achieving artificial photosynthesis, where similar to plants, renewable energy is used to transform carbon dioxide, or CO2, into stored chemical energy. They achieved this by developing an innovative catalyst.

21 Nov 2017

High-Temperature Thermal Solar Reactor Used to Produce Kerosene from Syngas

For the first time, researchers involved in the SOLAR-JET Project have exhibited the complete process for producing kerosene—the aviation turbine fuel used in commercial airlines—by employing a high-temperature thermal solar reactor to produce syngas.

16 Nov 2017

Duke Energy Proposes Solar and Energy Storage Projects for Reliable, Cleaner Energy

Duke Energy is planning to fix battery storage equipment and solar panels that will work as a microgrid at the Indiana National Guard's Camp Atterbury training operation in Johnson County, Ind.

2 Nov 2017

Efficient and Cost-Effective Technique to Capture Wave Energy from Oceans

Wave energy, in contrast to solar and wind energy, has been relatively costly and difficult to tap. However, engineers at Sandia National Laboratories have been endeavoring to change the scenario with influence from other industries.

31 Oct 2017

Researchers Build Fractal-Like Concentrating Solar Power Receivers for Better Harnessing of Sunlight

Engineers at Sandia National Laboratories have built new fractal-like, concentrating solar power receivers for small- to medium-scale use that are up to 20% more effective at absorbing sunlight than existing technology.

26 Oct 2017

Hydropower has Worst Environmental Impact Out of Renewable Energy Sources

Worldwide, many countries have been encouraging a change from using fossil fuels to adopting renewable sources of energy. Yet, authors of a research published on October 24, 2017 emphasize specific ecological risks of adopting “green” energy.

26 Oct 2017

New Forecast Report on Global Clean Technology Market 2019

The report provides in depth study of "Clean Technology" using SWOT analysis i.e. Strength, Weakness, Opportunities and Threat to the organization

26 Oct 2017

HyperSolar Develops Vital Component to Reduce Manufacturing Cost of Hydrogen

HyperSolar, the developer of an innovative technology to create renewable hydrogen using sunlight and any source of water, recently announced it has successfully developed a vital component made of earth-abundant material which will lower the overall cost of its process to produce renewable hydrogen.

25 Oct 2017

Study Reveals Cerium’s Electronic Entropy Makes It Ideal for Hydrogen Production

It has been known for long in the scientific community that cerium is the best element to employ when splitting water into oxygen and hydrogen — a key method in developing hydrogen gas for fuel. However so far it is not clear as to why cerium is so successful.

25 Oct 2017