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Sustainable Human Exploration of Mars

MIT researchers have devised the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE), which has been generating an oxygen supply and could help answer some of the questions about how to make the most of an atmosphere abundant in carbon dioxide.

1 Sep 2022

Vocational College Kitedesigner and TU Delft Alumni Successfully Created Kitepower V9

After years of development, Kitepower's energy-generating kites have become an applicable energy-generating system.

From Kitepower 1 Sep 2022

$12.6 Million to Support Cornell Energy Center in Developing Advanced Fuel Cell Technologies

Cornell University's Center for Alkaline-Based Energy Solutions (CABES) has received renewal funding of $12.6 million for a four-year period to continue its work developing advanced fuel cell technologies in alkaline media.

29 Aug 2022

Chinese Cities Reduce CO2 Emissions Despite Growing Economies and Populations

Thirty-eight Chinese cities have reduced their emissions of planet-warming carbon dioxide (CO2) despite growing economies and populations for at least five years - defined as proactively peaked cities, a new study reveals.

26 Aug 2022

Safe, Sustainable Storage for Renewable Energy Sources

MIT researchers have developed a new type of fast-charging battery, which is composed of abundant materials that are relatively cheap, and could meet sustainable energy storage needs in today’s world.

25 Aug 2022

New Aluminum-Sulfur Battery Could Provide Low-Cost Backup Storage for Renewable Energy

As the world builds out ever larger installations of wind and solar power systems, the need is growing fast for economical, large-scale backup systems to provide power when the sun is down and the air is calm. Today's lithium-ion batteries are still too expensive for most such applications, and other options such as pumped hydro require specific topography that's not always available.

25 Aug 2022