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Exchange System with Thermoelectric Generators Turns Waste Heat into Electricity Onboard Spacecraft

Rice University engineering students think it’s a shame to waste energy, especially in space. So a team of seniors invented a device that turns excess heat into electricity.

28 Apr 2014

New Tool May Lead to Commercially Viable Fuel Cells

Fuel cells have long been heralded as the energy technology of the future. Invented in 1838, the cells promise an almost limitless supply of clean energy for everything from cars to electrical grids, but have always proven too expensive to manufacture, fuel and maintain to enter mainstream use. Hoping to bring down those costs, a team of Bucknell faculty and student researchers has developed a new tool that could greatly accelerate fuel cell experimentation, and one day lead to the first commercially viable fuel cells.

28 Apr 2014

Renewable Technology Could Save Scottish Businesses £250 Million a Year

Scots businesses are missing out on a £250m windfall from the country’s sodden climate, a new study has shown.

24 Apr 2014

Rice CENHS Hosts 'Cultures of Energy' Symposium

Leading local, national and international scholars working at the intersection of energy, the environment and the humanities will gather at Rice University April 24-26 for the third annual Cultures of Energy Spring Symposium.

18 Apr 2014

Cornell Releases Updated Climate Action Plan

As the global importance for a low-carbon economy grows urgent, Cornell has posted its most aggressive carbon-reduction strategy to date: the Cornell Climate Action Plan Update and Roadmap 2014-15.

18 Apr 2014

Nuclear Plants Built on Floating Platforms Could Overcome Tsunamis, Earthquakes and Potential Meltdowns

When an earthquake and tsunami struck the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant complex in 2011, neither the quake nor the inundation caused the ensuing contamination. Rather, it was the aftereffects — specifically, the lack of cooling for the reactor cores, due to a shutdown of all power at the station — that caused most of the harm.

17 Apr 2014

Hitachi and Demansys to Jointly Perform Demonstration Project Using “CrystEna” Energy Storage System

Hitachi America, Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (“Hitachi”) and Demansys Energy LLC (“Demansys”) today announced that they have reached an agreement to perform a demonstration project utilizing Hitachi’s “CrystEna” compact container-type energy storage system in the market for frequency regulation and capacity services, and that site installation work will soon commence.

31 Mar 2014