Yogesh Surendranath and his team are bringing powerful techniques of electrochemistry to bear on the…
Browsing: Renewable Energy
Renewable energy refers to energy sources that are naturally replenished on a human timescale, such as solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, and biomass. Unlike fossil fuels, renewables produce little to no greenhouse gas emissions, making them central to efforts to combat climate change and transition to more sustainable energy systems. Research in renewable energy explores everything from improving the efficiency and storage of solar panels and wind turbines to integrating variable energy sources into power grids. As global demand for clean energy grows, innovation in this field is shaping the future of how we generate, distribute, and consume power.
Models offer guidance for state and national policymakers designing climate action plans. A new Harvard…
Current approaches to carbon capture can increase air pollution and are not efficient at reducing…
In any conventional silicon-based solar cell, there is an absolute limit on overall efficiency, based…
Reducing global air pollution can prevent millions of premature deaths according to an international team…
A cheap and effective new catalyst developed by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley,…
MIT engineers have come up with a conceptual design for a system to store renewable…
When it comes to energy production, there’s no such thing as a free lunch, unfortunately.…
Novel design could help shed excess heat in next-generation fusion power plants. A class exercise…
The quest to find new ways to harness solar power has taken a step forward…
Materials scientists from the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering have developed a highly efficient thin-film…
Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory and partner institutions provided today the first published report…
A new family of enzymes has been discovered which paves the way to convert plant…
A chance to switch to renewable sources for heating, electricity, and fuel, while also providing…
Which is a better deal: an established, off-the-shelf type of solar panel or a cutting-edge…
Physicists at the University of Warwick have published new research in the Journal of Science…
Natural bacterium isolated from mushroom crop residue converts plant-based material to butanol directly. A team…
A new approach to analyzing and designing new ion conductors — a key component of…