Of the about 600 terawatt hours Germany consumes each year, 50 TWh are self-produced in a trend that has seen solar panels installed on home roofs and gas plants set up in factories.
May 27th, 2014
Read more
Scientists are developing a sensor that can be connected easily to smartphones. In the future, users are to take part in drawing up a pollution map via participatory sensing.
May 23rd, 2014
Read more
A modern wind farm usually consists of multiple wind turbines arranged in an organized pattern or array. Wake interferences among wind turbines have been found to affect the performance of the wind turbines significantly. Researchers studied the effects of relative rotation direction of wind turbines on the wake interferences among tandem turbines for improved power production performance of wind turbines in a wind farm.
May 23rd, 2014
Read more
Novel vanadosilicate is potential decontamination agent for cesium-tainted water.
May 22nd, 2014
Read more
This study discusses the technological, environmental and economic barriers for producing methanol from carbon dioxide, as well as the possible uses of methanol in car transport in Europe.
May 22nd, 2014
Read more
Turning the 'hydrogen economy' concept into a reality, even on a small scale, has been a bumpy road, but scientists are developing a novel way to store hydrogen to smooth out the long-awaited transition away from fossil fuels.
May 21st, 2014
Read more
Web site offers a virtual gathering spot for those interested in environmental effects of offshore renewable energy.
May 21st, 2014
Read more
A new fuel-cell concept will allow biodiesel plants to eliminate the creation of hazardous wastes while removing their dependence on fossil fuel from their production process.
May 21st, 2014
Read more
Researchers have found a new alternative for low-temperature waste-heat conversion into electricity - that is, in cases where temperature differences are less than 100 degrees Celsius.
May 21st, 2014
Read more
Using a parasitic conduction mechanism, technology described in the journal 'APL Materials' promises safer batteries in the future.
May 20th, 2014
Read more
Data-rich predictive models help determine which consumers buy solar equipment and why.
May 20th, 2014
Read more
Researchers have spent the past several years researching ways to harness plants' natural abilities to filter toxins out of the air into an application that could be used in indoor spaces like office buildings.
May 16th, 2014
Read more
Engineers develop airborne wind turbine that floats 1,000 feet aloft to capture stronger, steadier winds.
May 15th, 2014
Read more
Researchers report new surprising properties of a metal named lithium purple-bronze (LiPB) that may impact the search for materials useful in power generation, refrigeration, or energy detection.
May 14th, 2014
Read more
The most important fertilizer for producing food is, at the same time, one of the most important risks for human health: nitrogen. Ambitious mitigation efforts, however, could decrease the pollution by 50 percent. The analysis is the very first to quantify this.
May 13th, 2014
Read more
In a new radiation receiver developed for solar tower power plants, ceramic particles of around one millimetre in size are heated to 1000 degrees Celsius. The particles are held in a drum inside the rotating receiver by centrifugal force, until they become hot enough to drive the steam turbine in a power plant, for example.
May 12th, 2014
Read more
Rsearcher devised way to use natural polymer to produce a biodegradable plastic.
May 12th, 2014
Read more
How can you ensure that people do not only spend time thinking about important global issues like climate change or world food supplies, but also roll up their sleeves and do something about them? Four researchers think that the education sector holds the key.
May 9th, 2014
Read more