Energy
Imagine a world without man-made climate change, energy crunches, or reliance on foreign oil. It may sound like a dream world, but University of Tennessee, Knoxville, engineers have made a giant step toward making this scenario a reality.
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Future prospects for clean, green, renewable energy may hinge upon our ability to mimic and improve upon photosynthesis.
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System designed for household and neighborhood power generation.
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Finding an efficient way to store solar energy is a major goal for science and society.
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Research engineers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have a different vision for the home of the future.
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Ceramic membranes may reduce carbon dioxide emissions from gas and coal-fired powerplants.
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New protocol finds microinverters can improve performance under shaded conditions more than 12%.
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In the search for technology by which economically competitive biofuels can be produced from cellulosic biomass, the combination of sugar-fermenting microbes and ionic liquid solvents looks to be a winner save for one major problem.
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Low-cost non-noble electrocatalyst efficiently generates hydrogen gas for fuel.
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A new approach to assessing greenhouse-gas emissions from coal, wind, solar and other energy technologies paints a much more precise picture of cradle-to-grave emissions and should help sharpen decisions on what new energy projects to build.
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Is there a new path to biofuels hiding in a handful of dirt? Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) biologist Steve Singer leads a group that wants to find out.
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How antiquated is our nation’s electric grid? It is so backward and inflexible that in order to integrate more sources of renewable energy, such as wind and solar, the current grid requires that we build more power plants.
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