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Methane’s Rising Greenhouse Effect, Measured Directly for the First Time

Janina Lazo-Cruz — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 05:13:26 +0000

Gases that trap heat in the atmosphere are called greenhouse gases. As their atmospheric concentrations change, scientists expect the amount of energy absorbed by these gases would change accordingly. However, this was not yet proven outside the laboratory until a study was conducted by US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley Lab Research. According to Berkeley […]

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New Technology Allows Fabrication of Solar Cells from any Semiconductor Material

Maria Reyes — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 20:02:01 +0000

Researchers at Berkeley Lab are developing a novel technology that allows the fabrication of low-cost, high efficiency solar cells from any semiconductor material. The new technology allows scientist to sidestep the difficulty in chemically tailoring many earth-abundant, non-toxic semiconductors such as metal oxides, sulfides and phosphides. The paper describing this research was published in Nano […]

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New Metal-Organic Frameworks In Action for Capturing Carbon Dioxide

Cristi — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 18:52:33 +0000

Climate change is one of the most controversial subjects of the century, because it is changing our planet in an non-imaginable way. Scientists have developed different ways (more or less efficient) to capture the CO2 excess resulted from human activity.

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