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Leftover Grain from Breweries Could Be Converted into Fuel for Homes

November 26, 2019

Breweries in the EU throw out around 3.4 million tons of unspent grain every year, weighing the equivalent of 500,000 elephan...

Replacing Coal with Gas or Renewables Saves Billions of Gallons of Water

October 23, 2019

Switch to natural gas would save 12,000 billion gallons a year by 2030; switching to solar or wind power would yield even gre...

Research Team Discovers New Route to Carbon-Neutral Fuels from Carbon Dioxide

September 17, 2019

Carbon-neutral re-use of CO2 has emerged as an alternative to burying the greenhouse gas underground

Device Generates Light from the Cold Night Sky

September 13, 2019

While solar cells are an efficient source of renewable energy during the day, there is currently no similar renewable approac...

A Good First Step toward Nontoxic Solar Cells

July 31, 2019

Engineers discover lead-free perovskite semiconductor for solar cells using data analytics, supercomputers

Exploiting Green Tides Thanks to a Marine Bacterium

July 10, 2019

Scientists have identified a marine bacterium whose enzymatic system can break down ulvan into an energy source

A More Holistic Approach to Laboratory Resource Reduction

April 2, 2018

The environmental impact of labs is nothing short of significant

Researchers Produce a New Design for a Battery Cell That Runs on Air

March 23, 2018

Scientists have produced a new design for a beyond-lithium-ion battery cell that operates by running on air (hence, ref...

World’s First Nighttime Solar Fuels Reactor Passes Test

February 21, 2018

Solar powered chemistry has one downfall—reactions stop at night. Now scientists have a solution

Fungal Enzymes Could Hold Secret to Making Renewable Energy From Wood

February 16, 2018

Researchers unlock key scientific challenge of how biorefineries can convert wood into biofuel in an environmental and cost-e...

The Latest Developments at Synlight—the World's Largest Artificial Sun

February 8, 2018

With 149 high-performance xenon short-arc lamps to mimic natural solar radiation, the key focus of Synlight is on&n...

Scientists Discover Material Ideal for Smart Photovoltaic Windows

January 24, 2018

Berkeley Lab researchers make thermochromic windows with perovskite solar cell

Proton Transport in Graphene Shows Promise for Renewable Energy

January 23, 2018

The new findings demonstrated an increase in the rate at which the material conducts protons when it is simply illuminated wi...

New Pathways, Better Biofuels

November 29, 2017

New research stitches together the best bits of several different bacteria to synthesize a new biofuel product that matc...

Briny Pool Bacteria Can Clean up and Power Up

November 6, 2017

KAUST researchers are exploring ways to detoxify warm, salty wastewater while simultaneously generating electricity

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