Artificial Photosynthesis Could Generate Hydrogen Fuel
Hydrogen could be the perfect zero-emissions fuel, if only the generating process could eliminate its carbon-footprint. There are a couple of ways to produce...
Atomic Layer Deposition Improves Thermoelectric Materials
Researchers at Aalto University School of Chemical Technology developed a new cost-effective method to convert waste energy into electricity without carbon dioxide emissions.
The team defined...
NREL’s AMPED Project Boosts Battery Efficiency by Better Management
The three main factors that affect the life of a rechargeable battery, any rechargeable battery, is chemistry, management, and usage. The same goes for...
Japan Plans World’s Biggest Offshore Wind Farm
It is almost two years since the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear meltdown in 2011, and after all but reducing its dependence on nuclear power (only...
Giant Solar Field Launched in Saudi Arabia by Suntech
The president of Saudi Aramco, Khalid A. Al-Falih recently inaugurated a 3.5 MW solar field. The project in Riyadh is for the King Abdullah...
Belgium to Build Artificial Island to Store Wind Energy
With the growth of wind farms the world over, it becomes necessary to provide some form of electricity backup and also since when the...
Germany and France On The Right Way to Renewable Energy Transition
Despite numerous efforts of critics and opponents of renewable energy to undermine the importance of solar and wind, and to stimulate burning of fossil...
Black Silicon Makes Solar Cells More Efficient
Aalto University scientists have achieved an improvement in light absorption and surface passivation of silicon nanostructures after applying an atomic layer coating.
This finding may...
Cheap and Safe Hydrogen Solution by Indian and Italian Researchers
Mention hydrogen, and for anyone who's watched Myth Busters or The History Channel, the name Hindenburg immediately comes to mind. The reason is because...
Solar Stirling Engine Efficiency Records Broken by Ripasso Energy
Solar Stirling engine efficiency has been topped this year by Ripasso Energy, a solar technology company based in Sweden.
They have designed a Solar stirling...
