Stealing nature's photosynthetic secrets
The prospect of creating clean, renewable hydrogen fuel is closer than ever after a breakthrough in our understanding of photosynthesis.
Nov 9th, 2012
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Integrating electric vehicles into power grids
Europe is paving the way for a transition from fossil fuels toward sustainable forms of energy. EU-funded scientists are developing technology and tools to facilitate integration of electric vehicles (EVs) into electricity grids.
Nov 9th, 2012
Read moreUniting the EU and China on fuel cell research
An EU-funded consortium of European and Chinese research centres and industrial partners have advanced fuel cell (FC) technology. Such collaborations help foster common goals and ways of achieving them benefiting all involved.
Nov 9th, 2012
Read moreResearchers develop effective thermal energy storage system
Engineering researchers at the University of Arkansas have developed a thermal energy storage system that will work as a viable alternative to current methods used for storing energy collected from solar panels. Incorporating the researchers? design into the operation of a concentrated solar power plant will dramatically increase annual energy production while significantly decreasing production costs.
Nov 9th, 2012
Read moreSustainable land-use concept for South America
Intensive farming with a climate-friendly touch: Farming/woodland mix increases yields.
Nov 9th, 2012
Read moreSecond anniversary of green energy research reveals solar panels "do what they say on the tin" (w/video)
A solar energy project at the University of Sheffield which is celebrating its second anniversary has shown almost all of the 2,000 systems in the scheme are "doing what they say on the tin".
Nov 8th, 2012
Read moreCool pavements, warm buildings, rising electricity bills
A push to replace old, heat-trapping paving materials with new, cooler materials could actually lead to higher electricity bills for surrounding buildings, engineers at the University of California, San Diego, have found.
Nov 8th, 2012
Read moreMore bang for the biofuel buck
Berkeley Lab researchers combine old fermentation process for making explosives with new chemical catalysis to boost biofuel production.
Nov 8th, 2012
Read moreFirst solely-biofuel jet flight raises clean travel hopes
The world's first flight powered entirely by bio jet fuel has raised hopes for cleaner air travel and upped the prospects of a boon for farmers whose oilseed crops could supplant kerosene.
Nov 8th, 2012
Read moreEnvironmentally friendly chemistry important for manufacturing pharmaceuticals
Limiting the quantity of catalysts - substances that trigger a chemical reaction - used in the manufacture of pharmaceuticals is important, and research from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, has now demonstrated that small quantities of copper work well in this respect.
Nov 8th, 2012
Read moreEnergy storage developer LightSail Energy raises $37.3 million
LightSail Energy, a developer of breakthrough energy storage technology, announced today that it has raised $37.3 million in Series D funding led by San Francisco investor Peter Thiel. Khosla Ventures, which incubated the company and led LightSail?s earlier rounds, Bill Gates, Innovacorp, and several other investors also participated in the round.
Nov 8th, 2012
Read moreBen-Gurion University develops side-illuminated ultra-efficient solar cell designs
New cell architecture can exceed 40 percent conversion efficiency at intensities up to 10,000 suns.
Nov 8th, 2012
Read moreSSRL experiments to focus on solar technologies
SLAC's Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource will play a central role in three research projects that seek cheaper materials and manufacturing techniques for solar panels, with support from a Department of Energy program called the SunShot Initiative.
Nov 7th, 2012
Read moreCapturing carbon with clever trapdoors
A team of Cooperative Research Centre for Greenhouse Gas Technologies (CO2CRC) researchers based at the University of Melbourne have developed a novel method of capturing carbon dioxide that will reduce the cost of separating and storing the gas.
Nov 7th, 2012
Read moreNew tool to assess regional risks of climate change
MIT researchers develop tool to assess regional risks of climate change, potential impacts on local infrastructure and planning.
Nov 7th, 2012
Read moreSynthetic biofilter removes estrogens from drinking water
Conventional methods of filtering waste water in sewage treatment plants are unable to completely remove medicine residues such as the estrogens in birth control pills. Students from the Bielefeld University's Center for Biotechnology have now developed a biological filter in which specific enzymes (so-called laccases) break down these medicine residues.
Nov 7th, 2012
Read morePacific islands drop diesel for 100 percent solar power
The island nation of Tokelau switched on the third and final installment of its new solar energy grid last week, earning praise around the world as the first country to become entirely solar-powered - except it's not a country.
Nov 7th, 2012
Read moreCarbon dioxide - our salvation from a future ice age?
Mankind's emissions of fossil carbon and the resulting increase in temperature could prove to be our salvation from the next ice age. According to a new research article by researchers from the University of Gothenburg, the current increase in the extent of peatland is having the opposite effect, cooling down the climate.
Nov 7th, 2012
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