Turning Buildings Into Batteries To Cheaply Improve Power Quality
Scientists propose converting tall buildings into batteries In order to ensure that the supply and demand of electricity are appropriately balanced, energy storage technologies are…
Scientists propose converting tall buildings into batteries In order to ensure that the supply and demand of electricity are appropriately balanced, energy storage technologies are…
The flow of electrical current signals changes in fractures deep beneath the earth Scorchingly hot granite deep underground can be tapped for energy by opening…
NREL Calculates Lost Value of Landfilled Plastic in U.S. With mountains of plastic trash piling up in landfills and experts anticipating that there will be…
Team collaborates on assembling and testing “rock star” system 4,100 feet underground A team of scientists has assembled a first-of-its-kind system to help them understand…
Patent-pending process removes biofuel contaminants from wastewater using an additive-free process that generates hydrogen to fuel its own operation The holy grail of biofuel researchers…
Alchemists sought to transform lead into gold centuries ago. While they were not successful, the notion of extracting precious resources from abundant sources remains alluring….
A cellphone-sized device automatically adjusts a home’s power use up or down to save the consumer money and increase the resiliency of the electric grid….
Molten-salt battery marks step toward seasonal storage of grid-scale energy Scientists have developed a battery designed for the electric grid that can store energy for…
Power flowing both ways across the Canada–U.S. border offers a pathway to clean electricity in 2050. The urgent need to cut carbon emissions has prompted…
Yogesh Surendranath and his team are bringing powerful techniques of electrochemistry to bear on the problem of designing catalysts for sustainable fuels. One challenge in…
Models offer guidance for state and national policymakers designing climate action plans. A new Harvard study shows that to achieve the biggest improvements in public…
Current approaches to carbon capture can increase air pollution and are not efficient at reducing carbon in the atmosphere, according to research from Mark Z….
In any conventional silicon-based solar cell, there is an absolute limit on overall efficiency, based partly on the fact that each photon of light can…
Reducing global air pollution can prevent millions of premature deaths according to an international team of scientists, led by the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry….
A cheap and effective new catalyst developed by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, can generate hydrogen fuel from water just as efficiently as…
MIT engineers have come up with a conceptual design for a system to store renewable energy, such as solar and wind power, and deliver that…
When it comes to energy production, there’s no such thing as a free lunch, unfortunately. As the world begins its large-scale transition toward low-carbon energy…
Novel design could help shed excess heat in next-generation fusion power plants. A class exercise at MIT, aided by industry researchers, has led to an…