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Oregon to transform lakes into batteries to charge electricity grid

Oregon to transform lakes into batteries to charge electricity grid

  Oregon to transform lakes into batteries to charge electricity grid The Online NewsHour  Swan Lake Valley is a patchwork of farm fields and grazing land about 20 minutes from…

New advances in solar cell technology

New advances in solar cell technology

New advances in solar cell technology   MAPbI3 perovskite films decompose to form methyliodide (CH3I) and ammonia (NH3), determined by thermal gravimetric differential thermal analysis and mass spectrometry. Credit: Image…

Chinese, U.S. scientists invent power-generating fabric

Chinese, U.S. scientists invent power-generating fabric

Chinese, U.S. scientists invent power-generating fabric Playing a baseball game on a sunny afternoon may soon be a way to charge your iPhone, thanks to a new fabric developed by…

Fermi Discovers A Luminous Gamma-Ray Binary

Fermi Discovers A Luminous Gamma-Ray Binary

  Fermi Discovers A Luminous Gamma-Ray Binary Dive into the Large Magellanic Cloud and see a visualization of LMC P3, an extraordinary gamma-ray binary system discovered by NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray…

Researchers Measure Magnetic Fields in the Vicinity of a Black Hole

Researchers Measure Magnetic Fields in the Vicinity of a Black Hole

  Researchers Measure Magnetic Fields in the Vicinity of a Black Hole Galaxy by radio light: NGC 1052 at three-millimeter wavelength, observed by the Global Millimeter VLBI Array. The illustration…

More efficient way to split water, produce hydrogen

More efficient way to split water, produce hydrogen

  More efficient way to split water, produce hydrogen Hydrogen is often considered a fuel for the future, in the form of fuel cells to power electric motors or burned…

‘Thermal metamaterial’ innovation could help bring waste-heat harvesting technology to power plants, factories

‘Thermal metamaterial’ innovation could help bring waste-heat harvesting technology to power plants, factories

  ‘Thermal metamaterial’ innovation could help bring waste-heat harvesting technology to power plants, factories The thermal metamaterial represented in this graphic could make possible more efficient thermophotovoltaic devices that generate…

New fabric uses sun and wind to power devices

New fabric uses sun and wind to power devices

New fabric uses sun and wind to power devices A piece of fabric was woven with special strands of material that harvest electricity from the sun and motion. Credit: Georgia…

(Video)Solar panels prop up South Africa’s electricity grid

(Video)Solar panels prop up South Africa’s electricity grid

  Solar panels prop up South Africa’s electricity grid…

(Video)China’s breakthrough in micro-liquid transport

(Video)China’s breakthrough in micro-liquid transport

  China’s breakthrough in micro-liquid transport…

Chemists develop promising cheap, sustainable battery for grid energy storage

Chemists develop promising cheap, sustainable battery for grid energy storage

Chemists develop promising cheap, sustainable battery for grid energy storage Chemists at the University of Waterloo have developed a long-lasting zinc-ion battery that costs half the price of current lithium-ion…

Renewable energy breakthrough: Solar-powered reaction 100 times faster

Renewable energy breakthrough: Solar-powered reaction 100 times faster

Renewable energy breakthrough: Solar-powered reaction 100 times faster An illustration shows one possible way that a highly active iridium oxide layer could form on the surface of a strontium iridium…

Theorists solve a long-standing fundamental problem on atoms

Theorists solve a long-standing fundamental problem on atoms

  Theorists solve a long-standing fundamental problem on atoms Trying to understand a system of atoms is like herding gnats — the individual atoms are never at rest and are…

New optical material offers unprecedented control of light and thermal radiation

New optical material offers unprecedented control of light and thermal radiation

  New optical material offers unprecedented control of light and thermal radiation A team led by Nanfang Yu, assistant professor of applied physics at Columbia Engineering, has discovered a new…

Liquid light switch could enable more powerful electronics

Liquid light switch could enable more powerful electronics

  Liquid light switch could enable more powerful electronics Polariton fluid emits clockwise or anticlockwise spin light by applying electric fields to a semiconductor chip. Credit: Alexander Dreismann Researchers have…

Indian Scientists Design Solar Tree to Save Space for Solar Power Generation

Indian Scientists Design Solar Tree to Save Space for Solar Power Generation

Indian Scientists Design Solar Tree to Save Space for Solar Power Generation VOA News  NEW DELHI —  Indian scientists have designed a “solar tree” that they hope will help overcome…

Scientists solve puzzle of converting gaseous carbon dioxide to fuel

Scientists solve puzzle of converting gaseous carbon dioxide to fuel

  Scientists solve puzzle of converting gaseous carbon dioxide to fuel Saving the planet from climate change with a grain of sand   Converting greenhouse gas emissions into energy-rich fuel…

Green light: Biochemists describe light-driven conversion of greenhouse gas to fuel

Green light: Biochemists describe light-driven conversion of greenhouse gas to fuel

Green light: Biochemists describe light-driven conversion of greenhouse gas to fuel Scientists generate methane from carbon dioxide in 1 enzymatic step   From left, Utah State University biochemists Sudipta Shaw,…

The Off-Grid Home That’s Fire-Retardant, Inexpensive & 75% More Energy Efficient

The Off-Grid Home That’s Fire-Retardant, Inexpensive & 75% More Energy Efficient

  The Off-Grid Home That’s Fire-Retardant, Inexpensive & 75% More Energy Efficient Written by: Joseph Gleason How-To A straw bale home in New Mexico. Image source: PajaConstruction.com   Are you…

China is now the BIGGEST crude oil operator in the North Sea amid concerns about its growing influence over Britain

China is now the BIGGEST crude oil operator in the North Sea amid concerns about its growing influence over Britain

  China is now the BIGGEST crude oil operator in the North Sea amid concerns about its growing influence over Britain State-owned company runs two of biggest oilfields in the…

Bubble-wrapped sponge creates steam using sunlight Bubble-wrapped structure requires no mirrors or lenses to focus the sun’s heat

  Bubble-wrapped sponge creates steam using sunlight Bubble-wrapped structure requires no mirrors or lenses to focus the sun’s heat   MIT graduate student George Ni holds a bubble-wrapped, sponge-like device…

Fungi recycle rechargeable lithium-ion batteries

Fungi recycle rechargeable lithium-ion batteries

  Fungi recycle rechargeable lithium-ion batteries Although rechargeable batteries in smartphones, cars and tablets can be charged again and again, they don’t last forever. Old batteries often wind up in…

(Video)Africa Rising: Project in DRC turns waste into fuel

(Video)Africa Rising: Project in DRC turns waste into fuel

    Project in DRC turns waste into fuel…

Nanostructured device grabs solar energy to disinfect water

Nanostructured device grabs solar energy to disinfect water

Nanostructured device grabs solar energy to disinfect water This nanostructured device, about half the size of a postage stamp, uses solar energy to quickly disinfect water. (courtesy of Stanford) SAN…

New Battery Could Overcome Key Drawbacks of Lithium-Air Batteries

New Battery Could Overcome Key Drawbacks of Lithium-Air Batteries

    New Battery Could Overcome Key Drawbacks of Lithium-Air Batteries In a new concept for battery cathodes, nanometer-scale particles made of lithium and oxygen compounds (depicted in red and…

With new water generators, Carrollton startup can unlock the ocean above your head

With new water generators, Carrollton startup can unlock the ocean above your head

With new water generators, Carrollton startup can unlock the ocean above your head In the blackland prairie of Texas, an ocean may be hundreds of miles away. But Benjamin Blumenthal, co-founder and chief executive officer…

Scientists convert carbon dioxide, create electricity

Scientists convert carbon dioxide, create electricity

  Scientists convert carbon dioxide, create electricity This graphic explains novel method for capturing the greenhouse gas and converting it to a useful product — while producing electrical energy. Credit:…

Physicists mourn as hinted particle vanishes in leaked LHC data

Physicists mourn as hinted particle vanishes in leaked LHC data

  Physicists mourn as hinted particle vanishes in leaked LHC data By Leah Crane in Chicago For nearly eight months, physicists have been waiting for confirmation of a potential new…

(Video)Science & Technology – Japanese pen draws circuits with conductive ink

(Video)Science & Technology – Japanese pen draws circuits with conductive ink

  Japanese pen draws circuits with conductive ink  …

Borrowing from pastry chefs, engineers create nanolayered composites

Borrowing from pastry chefs, engineers create nanolayered composites

  Borrowing from pastry chefs, engineers create nanolayered composites Method to stack hundreds of nanoscale layers could open new vistas in materials science Adapting an old trick used for centuries…