Each year, to meet requirements set by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), coal-fired power plants must have their smokestack emissio...
Engineers create an energy-storing supercapacitor from ancient materials
Two of humanity's most ubiquitous historical materials, cement and carbon black (which resembles very fine charcoal), may form the basis...
Hollow carbon co-doped anatase titanium dioxide spheres hold promise for high-performance metal ion batteries
According to a study published in Renewables, a research team led by Prof. Hu Linhua from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Ch...
Pressure-driven distillation for fast and selective water purification
Membrane technologies can provide efficient purification of unclear water sources to address a growing water shortage. However, when enginee...
A life-cycle assessment of the production of hydrogen from natural subsurface accumulations
Adam Brandt, an energy science and environmental engineer at Stanford University, has conducted a life-cycle assessment of hydrogen producti...
New research unveils the future of energy-efficient power delivery
Since the 1940s, scientists have been exploring the use of niobium oxide, specifically a form of niobium oxide known as T-Nb2O5, to create m...
Fukushima plant official says the coming release of treated water a milestone for decommissioning
A top official in charge of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant says an upcoming release of treated radioactive water into the sea mor...
Farms are especially suitable for energy sharing, say researchers
Picture this: two farms—one growing tomatoes and the other producing dairy—decide to install solar panels on their properties and share elec...
Proton battery promises cheap energy storage that's kinder to nature
Engineers in Melbourne are vying for pole position in the global race to make a cheap rechargeable battery for storing solar energy that doe...
Could zinc, iron or even air help power our future?
Better, more affordable energy storage is key to accelerating the transition away from fossil fuels toward renewable energy sources. from ...
Photovoltaic device innovation poised for global impact on the future energy system
Recent decades of research and development have produced highly sophisticated solar cells—or photovoltaic (PV) devices—that generated more t...
New app promises to make navigating subway stations easier for people with blindness and low vision
A new trip-planning app has shown encouraging results in improving navigation inside subway stations, according to a study published in IEEE...
As e-bikes proliferate, so do deadly fires blamed on exploding lithium-ion batteries
The explosion early on a June morning ignited a blaze that engulfed a New York City shop filled with motorized bicycles and their volatile l...
Researchers develop breakthrough prototype of stretchable fabric-based lithium-ion battery
Most people already know and appreciate the capabilities of smartphones. Now imagine the possibilities offered by smart spacesuits, uniforms...
Study outlines optimal strategy for accelerating the energy transition in China
China has set itself the goal of reaching its peak of carbon dioxide emissions in 2030 and thereafter to reduce emissions to reach carbon ne...
New approach to fuel cell manufacturing could reduce cost, increase availability
A Penn State-led team of researchers developed a potentially promising approach to make fuel cells more affordable. The new method reduces t...
An approach to enhancing relaxors for energy storage devices
Relaxor ferroelectrics are materials with ferroelectric properties and high electrostriction (i.e., the ability to contract or deform in res...
Samsung unveils foldable smartphones in a bet on bending device screens
Samsung Electronics on Wednesday unveiled two foldable smartphones as it continues to bet on devices with bending screens, a budding market ...
Zinc batteries with double efficiency and the ability to produce hydrogen
The renewable energy revolution wants to build a climate-friendly future for the world. But the move away from fossil fuels will remain a ch...
Why computer security advice is more confusing than it should be
If you find the computer security guidelines you get at work confusing and not very useful, you're not alone. A new study highlights a k...
New membrane filtering technology could help address water scarcity issues
Researchers at CU Boulder have developed a new membrane water filtration system based around air bubbles that can help address water scarcit...
With a new app, smart devices can use GPS underwater
Even for scuba and snorkeling enthusiasts, the plunge into open water can be dislocating. Divers frequently swim with limited visibility, wh...
New robot boosts solar energy research
Researchers have created a robot capable of conducting experiments more efficiently and sustainably to develop a range of new semiconductor ...
A proposal to build a sub-Saharan Africa electrical grid across 12 countries
A team of economists and engineers from China, Turkey and Nigeria has published a proposal based on simulations to build a sub-Saharan Afric...
Keen to get off gas in your home, but struggling to make the switch? Research shows you're not alone
More than five million households in Australia are connected to the gas network. Tackling climate change requires homes and businesses to mo...
New life for energy communities, thanks to self-generation and power sharing
Energy communities represent a new form of energy organization and management involving different actors within a local community. They are ...
Gliding, not searching: Here's how to reset your view of ChatGPT to steer it to better results
ChatGPT has exploded in popularity, and people are using it to write articles and essays, generate marketing copy and computer code, or simp...
Using our oceans to fight climate change
The ocean isn't just impacted by climate change—it may also be part of the solution to reversing it. from Energy & Green Tech News...
Studies provide guidelines for extracting valuable materials from water
Effectively extracting valuable resources from water could go a long way toward enhancing national security while also helping the environme...
Renewable solar energy can help purify water, research shows
Using electrochemistry to separate different particles within a solution (also known as electrochemical separation) is an energy-efficient s...
New tech brings resilience to small-town hydropower
Idaho National Laboratory (INL) has celebrated the ribbon-cutting of its new Microgrid in a Box, which was deployed in partnership with the ...
One year old, US climate law is already turbocharging clean energy technology
On a recent day under the July sun, three men heaved solar panels onto the roof of a roomy, two-story house near the banks of the Kentucky R...
'The only enemy is Amazon': Chris Smalls talks Bezos, unions during WA visit
When Chris Smalls, the president of the first union at an Amazon warehouse in the U.S., visits classrooms, he says the 10-year-old students ...
Iran's ancient 'wind catchers' beat the heat naturally
Tall, chimney-like towers rise from centuries-old adobe houses in Iran's desert city of Yazd, drawing in a pleasant breeze for residents...
Harnessing the power of water: New study shows the potential of pumped storage hydropower in Alaska
From rapidly melting glaciers to record-breaking wildfires, Alaska is feeling the impact of global warming more acutely than most of the low...
Researchers investigate a new use for plastic bottles
For years, unrecycled plastic bottles have been dumped in landfills. Now, thanks to new research from UBC Okanagan, those bottles may have a...
Hollywood strike: Is AI really a threat to actors?
Better pay and new agreements with streaming platforms: the actors' strike that brought Hollywood to a standstill a few days ago is main...
Power electronics for novel heat pumps achieves efficiency of more than 99.7%
In the Fraunhofer lighthouse project ElKaWe, researchers are working on the development of electrocaloric heat pumps as an alternative to th...
Device makes hydrogen from sunlight with record efficiency
Rice University engineers can turn sunlight into hydrogen with record-breaking efficiency thanks to a device that combines next-generation h...
Research puts sound waves to test in making solar cells cheaper
Sound waves could play a part in making III-V solar cells more affordable for Earth-bound applications, according research led by scientists...
A new self-cleaning salt molecule to improve the performance of lithium metal batteries
Lithium (Li) metal batteries, batteries that contain a metallic Li-based anode, are currently used to power a wide range of electronic devic...
Collecting energy from raindrops using solar panel technology
When raindrops fall from the sky, they can produce a small amount of energy that can be harvested and turned into electricity. It is a small...
A cool way to keep things cool: The electrocaloric effect
As necessary as cooling technologies are, we're still operating on an outdated technology that can be considered a significant contribut...
Using green banks to solve America's affordable housing crisis—and climate change at the same time
Green banks are starting to draw attention in the U.S., particularly since the federal government announced its first grant competitions und...
Perovskite light-emitting diodes toward commercial full-color displays: Progress and key technical obstacles
Perovskite light-emitting diodes (PeLEDs) have been considered the most potential application technologies for the next-generation display a...
AI has personalities and they're sometimes mean
It's bad enough most of us must deal on occasion with coworkers or store clerks who are tactless or rude. And the more we entrust our fi...
Researchers achieve milestone in energy capacity of supercapacitors
In a new landmark chemistry study, researchers describe how they have achieved the highest level of energy storage—also known as capacitance...
Dry manufacturing process offers path to cleaner, more affordable high-energy EV batteries
The lithium-ion batteries used to power electric vehicles are key to a clean energy economy. But their electrodes are usually made using a w...
Q&A: Can we use plastic waste to build roads, buildings, and more?
Stanford engineers Michael Lepech and Zhiye Li have a unique vision of the future: buildings and roads made from plastic waste. from Energ...
Right to be Forgotten laws must extend to generative AI, say researchers
If only the internet embraced the notion behind the popular Las Vegas slogan: "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas." from Consu...
Quantum computers can now interface with power grid equipment
With its head-spinning size and connections, the power system is so complex that even supercomputers struggle to efficiently solve certain o...
New carbon-stabilized Li-Si anodes for all-solid-state Li-ion batteries
All-solid-state batteries (ASSBs)—battery technologies with solid electrodes and solid electrolytes—have become the focus in an increasing n...
Researchers uncover privacy risks in cellphones purchased at police auctions
Law enforcement agencies nationwide regularly sell items that are seized in criminal investigations or are unclaimed from lost-and-found inv...
New study shows multiple advantages of capturing carbon where it is produced
EPFL engineers in Sion, Switzerland have demonstrated the potential for achieving net-zero and net-negative emissions in essential industria...
Can Threads replace Twitter as Washington's political watercooler?
A week after Meta launched Threads, a Twitter doppelgänger disguised as Instagram-but-for-text, Washington's professional posters are wa...
A strategy to reduce defects in inverted perovskite solar cells and improve their performance
Perovskites, a class of materials with a characteristic crystal structure, have proved to be very promising for the fabrication of solar cel...
Deep learning model could improve oil extraction
A research team from Skoltech introduced a model to facilitate the planning stage of oil well development. It will help obtain important dat...
Next-generation flow battery design sets records
A common food and medicine additive has shown it can boost the capacity and longevity of a next-generation flow battery design in a record-s...
Ransomware delays Dallas permits: 'I've never had to wait weeks for a fence...'
Blake Smith was confused when his contractor told him at the end of June that the city of Dallas still hadn't approved his application f...
Unused renewable energy an option for powering NFT trade finds new research
Unused solar, wind, and hydroelectric power in the U.S. could support the exponential growth of transactions involving non-fungible tokens (...
Climate change challenges hydropower-dependent Austria
High in the Austrian Alps, hundreds of construction workers toil in a huge underground project aimed at storing hydropower as climate change...
Grass packaging and new construction materials plot more sustainable path for papermakers
While the industry consumes lots of trees and produces plenty of waste, grass packaging and new construction materials point toward a more s...
Portable sun-powered water harvester could combat water scarcity
University of California Berkeley researchers have designed an extreme-weather proven, hand-held device that can extract and convert water m...
Two methods for increasing efficiency of solar cells by making silicon and perovskite work together better
Two teams of solar-power engineers, one led by a large group at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, the other led by ...
Scientists propose new solution to accurately record brake pedal actions
Recently, a research team led by Prof. Kong Deyi from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of Chinese Academy of Sciences has invented a...
How to claim your share of Google's $23 million privacy settlement
Google users can now apply for their share of a $23 million privacy lawsuit settlement. from Consumer Electronics News - Electronics News,...
Recycling precious metals from electronic waste with captured carbon dioxide
Gisele Azimi is bringing battery recycling to a new level, using captured carbon dioxide to harvest the precious metals used for green techn...
High school students are using a ChatGPT-style app in an Australia-first trial
The South Australian government has announced a trial of AI technologies in eight public high schools. from Consumer Electronics News - El...
Study investigates whether climate-neutral air travel is possible by 2050
Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI and ETH Zurich have performed calculations to work out how air traffic could become climate-n...
New chef dataset brings AI to cooking
Artificial intelligence (AI) can help people shop, plan, and write—but not cook. It turns out humans aren't the only ones who have a har...
Building an energy consumption diet: Using real-time power usage data integrated with weather information
In recent years, many countries have been competing to develop various platforms and systems that provide services directly to the general p...
Why FTC's child privacy push costs Amazon Microsoft millions
With the recent spate of privacy-focused investigations, government regulators may be looking to send Big Tech a message—and it's landin...
Australia won't meet net zero goals without a national approach to home thermal efficiency: Report
An RMIT University-led report, commissioned by RACE for 2030, assessed current challenges related to home thermal efficiency improvements. ...
China is a big part of Latin America's renewable energy boom but homegrown industries and 'frugal innovation' are key
The story of renewable energy's rapid rise in Latin America often focuses on Chinese influence, and for good reason. China's governm...
UAE announces plans to invest $54B in energy and triple renewable sources
The United Arab Emirates plans to triple its supply of renewable energy and invest up to $54 billion over the next seven years to meet its g...
How heating homes fuels climate change and why UK government measures are failing to stop it
The UK's housing stock is old, energy inefficient and heavily reliant on fossil fuel heating systems—mainly gas boilers. With heating re...
Scientists propose new strategy for modern sails to help shipping sector meet its carbon reduction goals
Researchers have identified a strategy that can offset the random and unpredictable nature of weather conditions that threaten carbon emissi...
New glass could cut carbon footprint by nearly half and is 10x more damage resistant
Worldwide, glass manufacturing produces at least 86 million tons of carbon dioxide every year. A new type of glass promises to cut this carb...
This Ohio museum shows that TV is older than you might think
The history of television began long before millions of people gathered in front of their black-and-white sets and fiddled with the antenna ...
Researchers develop recycling method to address carbon and glass fiber composites waste
Researchers at the University of Sydney have developed new methods to solve a major source of future waste from the automotive, aerospace an...
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