Power and Electrical Engineering

Power and Electrical Engineering

Power generation is blowing in the wind

Power generated by a wind turbine largely depends on the wind speed. In a wind farm in which the turbines experience the same wind speeds but different shapes,…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Nano Research Could Impact Flexible Electronic Devices

The research could one day impact flexible electronic devices such as solar cells and wearable sensors. The research also provided a promising young high…

Power and Electrical Engineering

ESMT Innovation Index 2010: Insights for Europe’s Energy Sector

The ESMT Innovation Index 2010 analyzes the innovation of 15 major European energy suppliers. The index consists of three differently weighted sub-indices,…

Power and Electrical Engineering

SRNL Breakthroughs in Portable Power Systems with Alane

SRNL has demonstrated a practical path to portable power systems based on alane and similar high capacity hydrogen storage materials that provide the…

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DOE researchers achieve important genetic breakthroughs to help develop cheaper biofuels

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) announced today a major breakthrough in engineering systems of RNA…

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New Technique Simplifies Semiconductor Etching Process

The team developed a method to chemically etch patterned arrays in the semiconductor gallium arsenide, used in solar cells, lasers, light emitting diodes…

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Notre Dame Researchers Create Affordable Paint-On Solar Cells

A team of researchers at the University of Notre Dame have made a major advance toward this vision by creating an inexpensive “solar paint” that uses…

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SECTOR Project: Advancing Sustainable Energy from Biomass

SECTOR (Production of Solid Sustainable Energy Carriers from Biomass by Means of TORrefaction) is a large-scale European project with a strong consortium of 21…

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Cutting Fuel Cell Production Costs with Noble Metal Nanoparticles

A noble metal nanoparticle catalyst for fuel cells is prepared using atomic layer deposition (ALD). This ALD method for manufacturing fuel cells requires 60…

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Algal Protein Enhances Electrochemical Water Splitting Efficiency

Water splitting in photo-electrochemical cells to yield hydrogen is a promising way to sustainable fuels. A team of Swiss and US scientists now made major…

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Study Shows Sugarcane Ethanol Production Causes Air Pollution

UC Merced graduate student Chi-Chung Tsao was the lead author on the paper and was aided in the study by UC Merced professors Elliott Campbell and Yihsu Chen….

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Lawrence Livermore ramps up wind energy research

But recent work by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, in conjunction with AWS Truepower, may help this balance through a project that alerts control room…

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Engineers Study How Hills, Nearby Turbines Affect Wind Energy Production

The turbine tower was just 10 inches high. Its three blades were 10 inches in diameter. It was a perfect 1:320 scale reproduction of the 80-meter diameter wind…

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Piezoelectric actuators: Why cubic?

Here, Tomoaki Mashimo and Shigeki Toyama analyzed the vibrational behavior of cubic stators based on an energy method, which distinguishes components of…

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Small Reactors: Key to US Energy Future and Innovation

“Clearly, a robust commercial SMR industry is highly advantageous to many sectors in the United States,” concluded the study, led by Robert Rosner, institute…

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Affordable solar?

Sure, solar only generates about 1 percent of the electricity in the US. But that will change in a few years, says Pearce, an associate professor of electrical…

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