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Researchers Use Solar Power to Generate Sustainable Fuel from Biomass

A team of scientists at the University of Cambridge has developed a way of using solar power to generate a fuel that is both sustainable and relatively cheap to produce. It's using natural light to generate hydrogen from biomass.

14 Mar 2017

Growing Sustainable Energy Crops on Conservation Lands May Not Increase Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Growing sustainable energy crops without increasing greenhouse gas emissions, may be possible on seasonally wet, environmentally sensitive landscapes, according to researchers who conducted a study on Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) land.

13 Mar 2017

New Molecule Converts Greenhouse Gas Carbon Dioxide into Carbon-Neutral Fuel Source

An international research team led by Liang-shi Li from Indiana University has reached a new milestone in the quest to create carbon-neutral fuels and others materials from carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere.

9 Mar 2017

Scientists Explore Cause Behind Performance Degradation in Operating Sodium-Ion Battery

Sometimes understanding how a problem arises in the first place is key to finding its solution. For a team of scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, taking this approach led them to the cause of degraded performance in an operating sodium-ion battery.

7 Mar 2017

Stanford Researchers Create Cutting-Edge Lab Model of Vertical-Axis Wind Turbine Arrangements

Many people are familiar with the sight of propeller-like rotating blades placed high up the pole of a high horizontal-axis wind turbine (HAWT). HAWTs are often grouped in wind farms and they provide large amounts of energy for local communities.

1 Mar 2017

HyperSolar Produces Renewable Hydrogen Using Commercially Available Silicon Solar Cells

HyperSolar, Inc., a company developing a breakthrough technology to make renewable hydrogen using sunlight and any source of water, has announced that it had succeeded in producing renewable hydrogen using commercially available, inexpensive silicon solar cells (provided by Midwest Optoelectronics, LLC "MWOE") protected with its proprietary coating.

22 Feb 2017

U.S. Grid can Handle More Offshore Wind Power and Reduce Pollution, Say Researchers

Scientists at the University of Delaware and Princeton University have completed a first-of-its-kind simulation with the electric power industry. According to the scientists injecting large quantities of offshore wind power into the electrical grid in the U.S. is manageable, and it will reduce electricity costs and minimize pollution compared to existing fossil fuel sources.

22 Feb 2017