Ford Motor Company announced Monday that it is delaying construction of a $3,5 billion electric vehicle battery factory in Michigan until it is confident it can operate the plant profitably. Workers in battery facilities [more…]
A four-legged robot with soft actuators can carry up to 22 times its body weight while crawling or jumping from one place to another. Mobile, centimeter-scale robots for agriculture, healthcare, exploration and communications [more…]
Although hydrogen production is seen as a potential replacement for fossil fuels, the processes either produce too much carbon dioxide or are too expensive. Obtaining hydrogen from plastic garbage by Rice University researchers [more…]
Highly energy efficient buildings can reduce energy costs as well as carbon emissions and air pollution that contribute to climate change and other negative health effects. However, energy efficient building design has environmental [more…]
It was originally planned to be a turning point. French President Emmanuel Macron will host foreign leaders and finance ministers on Thursday and Friday at a neoclassical building built by Napoleon's orders to house the Paris stock exchange. [more…]
Flying robotic systems have shown great promise for solving a variety of practical problems, such as searching for survivors of natural disasters, delivering packages to difficult locations, and exploring isolated environments. Robotics and computer scientists [more…]
Our world can be cleaned with the help of machine learning and materials science. Do you diligently recycle glass bottles, cans and cardboard boxes? Maybe it all fits in the right container and is less environmentally damaging. [more…]
Rapid charging of lithium-ion batteries can cause a phenomenon known as lithium plating. This is a metallic lithium ion that continues to expand, accumulating on the battery's negative electrode instead of mixing with it. [more…]
A new nature-inspired solar design could lead to the renewable energy technology of the future, according to a new study. Photovoltaic solar energy is produced by converting sunlight into electricity. Imperial University researchers [more…]
Scientists at Stanford University have developed a new technology that can keep homes and other structures warmer in the winter and cooler in the summer, significantly reducing energy use, prices and greenhouse gas emissions. [more…]
On the way to plasma-based fusion reactors, the discovery of self-heating in magnetically confined plasmas is an important development. The energy released as a result of nuclear fusion reactions in a plasma is stored in a fusion reactor. [more…]
Researchers have discovered a polymer phase transition that converts heat into usable power. They claim that this behavior can be used to increase the energy efficiency of appliances such as air conditioners. The most energy-hungry household appliance, of all other appliances. [more…]
The French Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the National University of Singapore (NUS) Department of Biological Sciences have joined forces to create a unique protein mimic that can self-assemble into porous structures. Pores have a lipid membrane [more…]
According to research by the University of Michigan, cracks in the positive electrodes of lithium-ion batteries not only cause problems, but also shorten the charging times of the batteries. As this shortens battery life, many trying to reduce cracking [more…]
A recent study suggests that cement and carbon black, a substance resembling very fine charcoal, could form the basis of an innovative, affordable energy storage technology. This technology is renewable [more…]
Many scientists are skeptical of claims that researchers have developed a new room-temperature ambient-pressure superconductor. If rumor has wings, extraordinary scientific claims have jet engines. a South Korean [more…]
The discovery of the lithium-ion battery is attributed to John B. Goodenough, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin, who died Sunday at the age of 100. In addition to being a talented but humble inventor, Goodenough is dedicated to his work. [more…]
The battery charges in the time it takes to fill a car with petrol. A Chinese firm, Greater Bay Technology, claims that its new electric vehicle (EV) battery can work in any climatic conditions. According to Bloomberg, [more…]
Olkiluoto 3 is complete. Today, on Sunday, April 16, 2023, regular electricity production started after the test generation was completed. Olkiluoto will produce about 30% of the electricity currently used in Finland. Europe's largest nuclear [more…]
A low-carbon energy firm harnessing the power of waters off the coast of Scotland has received a Royal Agreement for a 30MW tidal project. Despite being fossil free, hydroelectric power has its own challenges. Initial investment cost [more…]
The company has signed a contract with Sunrock to generate power from a rooftop solar plant in Rotterdam. Sunrock and Iron Mountain, a local energy provider in the Netherlands, [more…]
Saturn Power, which has projects in the USA and Canada, was acquired by Greenwood Sustainable Infrastructure. According to the statement, Saturn Power's solar and battery development portfolios have been strategically developed by Greenwood Sustainable Infrastructure (GSI). [more…]
The same high-energy photons produced by lightning discharges and used in medical imaging were discovered by scientists in the early 2000s. Although scientists have been able to replicate this event in the laboratory, how and how lightning [more…]
In recent years, researchers have been working to develop more effective solar technologies and environmentally friendly battery designs. Solar cells, which are devices that can store energy collected by solar cells or photovoltaic (PV) systems, [more…]
Component 5 (or “C-5”) of Portugal's Recovery and Resilience Plan will build Fusion Fuel a 1 Megawatt decentralized green hydrogen production facility and a hydrogen refueling station in Elvas, Portugal. [more…]
A large hydroelectric dam or wind farm is perhaps the first thing that comes to mind when thinking about using water or wind to generate electricity. But consider a smaller scale. Italian researchers into plants [more…]
The new sorbents have three times the capacity to absorb carbon dioxide from the air than existing ones. The sorbent also converts carbon dioxide into sodium bicarbonate, or baking soda, which can be safely retained in the oceans when exposed to seawater. International [more…]
Lithium-ion batteries have become indispensable in our daily lives. Only a passivation layer formed during their first cycle allows them to function. As scientists at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) discovered through simulations, this solid [more…]
A study led by scientists at ETH Zurich reveals for the first time how wind turbine locations will change if spatial planning regulations in Switzerland are relaxed. As little as possible in the Alps and throughout Switzerland [more…]
It has long been known that a strain of tuberculosis bacteria can generate electricity from hydrogen in the air. Scientists have now figured out how to do this. Researchers studying a relative of the bacterium that causes leprosy and tuberculosis have turned hydrogen into electricity. [more…]
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