National Renewable Energy Laboratory Energy Analysis
A new report from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory suggests that renewable electricity generation from today’s technologies, in combination with a more flexible electric system,…
A new report from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory suggests that renewable electricity generation from today’s technologies, in combination with a more flexible electric system,…
A newly developed small-scale solid oxide fuel cell system that achieves up to 57 percent efficiency may find its way into homes in the future….
Scientists at the Berkeley Lab have developed a way to generate power using harmless viruses that convert mechanical energy into electricity. Their generator is the…
Researchers at the CUNY Energy Institute have developed an operating prototype zinc anode battery system. Designed to be non-toxic, and reliable with fast discharge rates…
Newly published research from Yale University engineers describes a technique that may be influential in developing and understanding new methods for rapidly creating battery electrodes…
As advancements in biofuels continue, researchers from the Berkeley Lab are looking into new ways of creating biofuels that don’t rely on photosynthesis. Focusing on…
Future communication devices may get a big boost in efficiency from terahertz waves and graphene. In a newly published study, scientists at the University of…
In an effort to increase solar cell efficiency, scientists at Michigan Technological University are working on a cost-effective method that adds graphene to titanium dioxide,…
Just recently Rice University shared news of their 2-D Boron Nanotubes that have advantages over carbon nanotubes and now scientists at MIT have found another…
Using MIT students as his team, MIT professor Donald Sadoway is set to make his liquid-battery concept a reality. Based on floating layers of high-temperature…
By using photochemical upconversion, researchers from the University of Sidney have developed a “turbo for solar cells” that allows for record-breaking efficiency in cost-effective solar…
As researchers to continue monitor and assess the recent solar activity, new data shows that the thermosphere absorbed 26 billion kWh of energy over a…
NASA’s Fermi Gamma-Ray Telescope has detected enough energetic photons to produce the first all-sky map of the very high energy universe. Since Fermi’s launch in…
By coating a DVD disc with a film of graphite oxide that is then laser treated inside a LightScribe DVD drive to produce graphene electrodes,…
The first ever electrons with tunable properties were observed at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. By repositioning the carbon monoxide molecules that were placed on…
It has been extremely difficult to create graphene-based devices that reliably operate at room temperature and pressure, until now. By submerging sheets of graphene in…
Based on computer simulations, new research shows that a new metamaterial design is able to absorb a wide range of light with extremely high efficiency….
Solar start-up company Ampuse has teamed up with NREL and ORNL to reduce the cost of solar cells through the use of a new manufacturing…