“Solar can potentially provide all the electricity and fuel we need to power the planet,” Harry Gray, Ph.D., scheduled to speak here today at the 235th…
Scientists at U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory are answering that call by working to chemically manipulate algae for production of the…
Furthermore, the speed and reliability are increased. Dutch-sponsored researcher Srinivas Vanapalli has investigated the possibilities for the extreme cooling…
Researchers at Boston College and MIT have used nanotechnology to achieve a major increase in thermoelectric efficiency, a milestone that paves the way for a…
The use of solar cells is increasing very slowly. One of the reasons is that the most commonly used type, made from silicon, is quite expensive to manufacture….
Martin AnyiFaculty of EngineeringSupplying electricity to the remote and scattered rural communities in Malaysia is almost impossible due to their remoteness…
A recent Oak Ridge National Laboratory study, featured in the current issue of the ORNL Review examined how an expected increase in ownership of hybrid…
David Petti, Sc.D., and technical director for the INL research, says the team used reverse engineering methods to help turn the fuel test failures from the…
Experience has shown that the accurate power generation estimation based on wind speed is a challenging task. For large new turbine models, conventional met…
Computer engineers at the University of Michigan and Rice University have devised a comprehensive way to head off this costly infringement: Each chip would…
Dr Dave Worsley, a Reader in the Materials Research Centre at the University’s School of Engineering, is investigating ways of painting solar cells onto the…
Nuclear energy production must increase by more than 10 percent each year from 2010 to 2050 to meet all future energy demands and replace fossil fuels, but…
Electronic sensors that record the position of movable objects crop up in practically every machine, from printing presses to space rockets. The average modern…
IMEC realized this record on a single-junction GaAs cell, grown epitaxially on a Ge substrate with an improved micro-defect distribution. The record cell…
The per capita emission of carbon dioxide in Switzerland is currently 9 tons per year, approximately twice the global average. «Our objective for the climate…
A team of Northwestern University researchers has developed a new anode coating strategy that significantly enhances the efficiency of solar energy power…