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Newswise: Safety Technology for Hydrogen Infrastructure in Underground Space
Released: 2-Mar-2023 8:20 PM EST
Safety Technology for Hydrogen Infrastructure in Underground Space
National Research Council of Science and Technology

The Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology (KICT, President Kim Byung-suk) announced its plan to develop technologies pertaining to the entire course of an underground hydrogen infrastructure project, from its design and construction to its operation and management.

Newswise: Accelerating the commercialization of solid oxide electrolysis cells that produce green hydrogen
Released: 2-Mar-2023 8:00 PM EST
Accelerating the commercialization of solid oxide electrolysis cells that produce green hydrogen
National Research Council of Science and Technology

Dr. Ho-Il Ji, Dr. Jong-Ho Lee, and Dr. Hyungmook Kang's research team at the Energy Materials Research Center, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST, President Yoon Seok Jin), announced that they have increased the possibility of commercialization by identifying this electrolyte sintering mechanism: a next-generation high-efficiency ceramic cell that had not previously been identified.

Newswise: Hydrogen peroxide is produced harnessing the power of the sunlight
Released: 2-Mar-2023 7:30 PM EST
Hydrogen peroxide is produced harnessing the power of the sunlight
National Research Council of Science and Technology

The Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST, President Seok Jin Yoon) announced in last November that Dr. Jeehye Byun’s research team at the Center for Water Cycle Research and Dr. Dong Ki Lee’s research team at the Clean Energy Research Center developed a new technology that uses sunlight to produce hydrogen peroxide at an unprecedented high concentration, replacing the need for high-temperature and high-pressure energy.

Newswise: Physicists solve durability issue in next-generation solar cells
Released: 16-Feb-2023 6:25 PM EST
Physicists solve durability issue in next-generation solar cells
University of Toledo

Physicists in the U.S. jumped a major hurdle standing in the way of the commercialization of solar cells created with halide perovskites as a lower-cost, higher-efficiency replacement for silicon when generating electricity from the sun.

Newswise:Video Embedded add-on-device-makes-home-furnaces-cleaner-safer-and-longer-lasting
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Released: 15-Feb-2023 3:00 PM EST
Add-on device makes home furnaces cleaner, safer and longer-lasting
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed an affordable add-on acid gas reduction technology that removes 99.9% of acidic gases and other emissions to produce an ultraclean natural gas furnace. The AGR technology can also be added to other natural gas-driven equipment.

Newswise: Iowa State to study growing crops in solar farm’s footprint
Released: 15-Feb-2023 2:45 PM EST
Iowa State to study growing crops in solar farm’s footprint
Iowa State University

A new Iowa State University research project will explore how to grow crops and keep bees amid solar panels. Funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy, most of the research will be conducted a few miles south of Ames, where Alliant Energy plans to begin construction in April on a 1.35 megawatt solar farm.

Released: 10-Feb-2023 1:55 PM EST
5 Ways Argonne is driving auto innovation
Argonne National Laboratory

Spotlighting Argonne innovations in electric vehicles during the Chicago Auto Show.

Newswise: Research Reveals Thermal Instability of Solar Cells but Offers a Bright Path Forward
Released: 10-Feb-2023 1:10 PM EST
Research Reveals Thermal Instability of Solar Cells but Offers a Bright Path Forward
Georgia Institute of Technology

A new type of solar technology has seemed promising in recent years. Halide perovskite solar cells are both high performing and low cost for producing electrical energy – two necessary ingredients for any successful solar technology of the future. But new solar cell materials should also match the stability of silicon-based solar cells, which boast more than 25 years of reliability.

Released: 6-Feb-2023 4:00 PM EST
Rensselaer Researchers To Explore “Fast Fashion” Alternatives
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)

A team of researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute led by Helen Zha, assistant professor in the Isermann Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, has been awarded a $745,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to explore sustainable alternatives to the synthetic textiles used in “fast fashion.”The fashion industry is responsible for immense amounts of waste.

Newswise: Researchers: Energy-efficient construction materials work better in colder climates
Released: 3-Feb-2023 4:00 PM EST
Researchers: Energy-efficient construction materials work better in colder climates
Kaunas University of Technology

The researchers from Lithuania and Cyprus claim that the energy payback period of using phase change materials, new technology in the construction industry, is the shortest in a colder climate.

Newswise:Video Embedded rinse-and-repeat-an-easy-new-way-to-recycle-batteries-is-here
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Released: 1-Feb-2023 10:00 AM EST
Rinse and Repeat: An Easy New Way to Recycle Batteries is Here
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

A new battery material that dissolves in water will make it simple and economical to recycle a wide range of batteries, so we can reuse the valuable and increasingly rare materials within, including nickel and cobalt.

Newswise: With new electric motor coach, Idaho National Laboratory drives toward net zero
Released: 30-Jan-2023 3:25 PM EST
With new electric motor coach, Idaho National Laboratory drives toward net zero
Idaho National Laboratory (INL)

Idaho National Laboratory marked a milestone in its efforts to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions with the recent addition of its first electric motor coach.

Newswise: Jamey Young: Then and Now / 2012 Early Career Award Winner
Released: 30-Jan-2023 12:00 PM EST
Jamey Young: Then and Now / 2012 Early Career Award Winner
Department of Energy, Office of Science

Engineering professor Jamey Young at Vanderbilt University is developing new strategies for engineering the metabolism of cyanobacteria. He is working to create “green cell factories” for producing renewable fuel compounds.

Newswise: Scientists Use SDSC’s Expanse to Advance Green Chemistry
Released: 30-Jan-2023 11:05 AM EST
Scientists Use SDSC’s Expanse to Advance Green Chemistry
University of California San Diego

Computational chemists reduce or eliminate hazardous materials by running simulations to develop fast, accurate models. MIT researchers use SDSC's supercomputer to explore the luminescent properties of iridium-centered phosphors.

Newswise: ORNL to receive three awards from Federal Laboratory Consortium
Released: 26-Jan-2023 1:35 PM EST
ORNL to receive three awards from Federal Laboratory Consortium
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

A regional partnership that aims to attract nuclear energy-related firms to Oak Ridge, Tennessee, has been recognized with a state and local economic development award from the Federal Laboratory Consortium.

Released: 26-Jan-2023 1:30 PM EST
Department of Energy Announces $125 Million for Research to Enable Next-Generation Batteries and Energy Storage
Department of Energy, Office of Science

Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $125 million for basic research on rechargeable batteries to provide foundational knowledge needed to transform and decarbonize our energy system through the development and adoption of cost-effective and clean energy sources. The national, economic, and environmental security challenges will not be met solely by incremental improvements to existing clean energy technologies but instead will require transformational technologies founded on new fundamental knowledge and capabilities developed through basic scientific research.

Released: 25-Jan-2023 10:05 AM EST
Driving inclusive and green urban transitions
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)

A new Horizon Europe project led by IIASA, called Urban ReLeaf, leverages citizen science for public sector innovation.

Newswise:Video Embedded green-energy-patents-more-focused-on-clean-conventional-energy-instead-of-renewables
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Released: 25-Jan-2023 9:00 AM EST
‘Green’ energy patents more focused on ‘clean’ conventional energy instead of renewables
Digital Science and Research Solutions Ltd

A new study by world leaders in patent data has revealed some unusual trends in energy tech R&D, questioning whether companies are more committed to extracting fossil fuels or in pursuing genuinely ‘green’, renewable energy technologies.

   
Released: 19-Jan-2023 2:05 PM EST
Innovate UK, the Urban Future Lab, and Greentown Labs bring innovative clean energy and climatetech startups to the U.S.
NYU Tandon School of Engineering

Beginning in January, the Urban Future Lab at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, in partnership with Greentown Labs, will provide a soft landing pad in the U.S. for the third cohort of Innovate UK’s Global Incubator Programme: Clean Growth edition, which is designed to cultivate and support the launch of innovative climatetech companies with a strong potential to scale internationally to new markets.

   
Newswise: Harnessing solar energy: new method improves readings of double-sided panels
Released: 18-Jan-2023 6:30 PM EST
Harnessing solar energy: new method improves readings of double-sided panels
University of Ottawa

A leading laboratory in photonics and renewable energy at the University of Ottawa has developed a new method for measuring the solar energy produced by bifacial solar panels, the double-sided solar technology which is expected to meet increased global energy demands moving forward.

Released: 16-Jan-2023 11:55 AM EST
Computers that power self-driving cars could be a huge driver of global carbon emissions
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

In the future, the energy needed to run the powerful computers on board a global fleet of autonomous vehicles could generate as many greenhouse gas emissions as all the data centers in the world today.

Newswise: NASA says 2022 fifth warmest year on record, warming trend continues
Released: 13-Jan-2023 7:15 PM EST
NASA says 2022 fifth warmest year on record, warming trend continues
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Earth's average surface temperature in 2022 tied with 2015 as the fifth warmest on record, according to an analysis by NASA.

Newswise: Researchers Create Smaller, Cheaper Flow Batteries for Clean Energy
Released: 13-Jan-2023 1:10 PM EST
Researchers Create Smaller, Cheaper Flow Batteries for Clean Energy
Georgia Institute of Technology

Flow batteries offer a solution. Electrolytes flow through electrochemical cells from storage tanks in this rechargeable battery. The existing flow battery technologies cost more than $200/kilowatt hour and are too expensive for practical application, but Liu’s lab in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (ChBE) developed a more compact flow battery cell configuration that reduces the size of the cell by 75%, and correspondingly reduces the size and cost of the entire flow battery. The work could revolutionize how everything from major commercial buildings to residential homes are powered.

Newswise: Half a million lives could be saved yearly by replacing wood and charcoal stoves in Africa
Released: 12-Jan-2023 4:25 PM EST
Half a million lives could be saved yearly by replacing wood and charcoal stoves in Africa
Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (KTH) [Royal Institute of Technology]

Half a million lives could be saved each year in sub-Saharan Africa by taking action to reduce reliance on traditional wood- and charcoal-burning stoves, a new study shows.

   
Released: 11-Jan-2023 1:05 PM EST
Green algae enhances skin regeneration to speed up healing
Wiley

A product of a freshwater single-celled green algae called Euglena gracilis may enhance skin regeneration to speed up wound healing, according to new research published in Advanced Materials Interfaces.

   
Released: 11-Jan-2023 12:45 PM EST
Electric vehicles helping drivers to reduce their bills
Institute of Physics (IOP) Publishing

90% of vehicle-owning US households could reduce their bills as well as their carbon footprint by switching to electric vehicles.

Newswise: Chemical researchers discover catalyst to make renewable paints, coatings, and diapers
Released: 9-Jan-2023 10:30 AM EST
Chemical researchers discover catalyst to make renewable paints, coatings, and diapers
University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering

A team led by University of Minnesota Twin Cities researchers has invented a groundbreaking new catalyst technology that converts renewable materials like trees and corn to the key chemicals, acrylic acid, and acrylates used in paints, coatings, and superabsorbent polymers.

Newswise: Electricity harvesting from evaporation, raindrops and moisture inspired by nature
Released: 6-Jan-2023 5:40 PM EST
Electricity harvesting from evaporation, raindrops and moisture inspired by nature
Tsinghua University Press

Raindrops, evaporating water, and even moisture in the air are all potentially sources of decentralized clean electricity generation, but many of the technologies that take advantage of this ambient and vast source of energy—many of which are inspired by the electricity harvesting techniques of plants and animals—remain at the lab-bench stage.

Released: 5-Jan-2023 9:00 AM EST
Ohio University Simulations on PSC Supercomputer Transform Coal-Like Material to Amorphous Graphite and Nanotubes
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

A team at Ohio University used the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center’s Bridges-2 system to carry out a series of simulations showing how coal might eventually be converted to valuable — and carbon-neutral — materials like graphite and carbon nanotubes.

Released: 3-Jan-2023 6:10 PM EST
Self-powered, printable smart sensors created from emerging semiconductors could mean cheaper, greener Internet of Things
Simon Fraser University

Creating smart sensors to embed in our everyday objects and environments for the Internet of Things (IoT) would vastly improve daily life—but requires trillions of such small devices.

Released: 22-Dec-2022 12:25 PM EST
Media Tip: Scientists enhance recyclability of post-consumer plastic
Argonne National Laboratory

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Institute for Cooperative Upcycling of Plastics (iCOUP) have developed a new method for recycling high-density polyethylene (HDPE).

Released: 21-Dec-2022 9:40 AM EST
Seven years of carbon-based electrochemical catalysts: Where we are and where we need to go
Tsinghua University Press

The abundant carbon on Earth might offer a rich, renewable resource for clean, sustainable energy.

Released: 20-Dec-2022 7:50 PM EST
“Robust” amendments to insurance law and international environmental law needed to allow carbon capture, utilisation and storage
University of Exeter

“Robust” amendments to insurance law and international environmental law are needed to allow carbon capture, utilisation and storage to take place legally so the technology can be used in the fight against global warming, a new study says.

   
Released: 19-Dec-2022 9:30 AM EST
Greener cities promote social and climate inequalities
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

An ICTA-UAB project establishes the direct relationship between green spaces and green gentrification processes in 28 cities in North America and Europe.

Released: 13-Dec-2022 2:05 PM EST
Big Energy News: One step closer to Nuclear Fusion Energy
Newswise

A U.S. lab has successfully sparked a fusion reaction that released more energy than went into it. Read the explanation of Nuclear Fusion Reaction by the DOE's Office of Science.

Newswise: An integrated, net-negative system captures carbon and produces ethylene
Released: 12-Dec-2022 4:00 PM EST
An integrated, net-negative system captures carbon and produces ethylene
University of Illinois Chicago

Engineers have built a machine that captures carbon from flue gas and converts it to ethylene. The device integrates a carbon capture system with an ethylene conversation system for the first time.

Newswise: Good vibrations turbo charge green hydrogen production
Released: 12-Dec-2022 1:50 PM EST
Good vibrations turbo charge green hydrogen production
RMIT University

Engineers in Melbourne have used sound waves to boost production of green hydrogen by 14 times, through electrolysis to split water.

Newswise: Recycled gold from SIM cards could help make drugs more sustainable
Released: 9-Dec-2022 7:45 PM EST
Recycled gold from SIM cards could help make drugs more sustainable
Imperial College London

Researchers have used gold extracted from electronic waste as catalysts for reactions that could be applied to making medicines.

Released: 8-Dec-2022 4:05 PM EST
Electric car sales drive toward cleaner air, less mortality
Cornell University

Electric cars – and their continued sales growth – are expected to have a greener, cleaner influence on air pollution and reduce human mortality in most, if not all, U.S. metropolitan areas, according to Cornell University research published in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews.

Newswise: X-rays Reveal Elusive Chemistry for Better EV Batteries
Released: 5-Dec-2022 2:45 PM EST
X-rays Reveal Elusive Chemistry for Better EV Batteries
Brookhaven National Laboratory

A team of scientists led by chemists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has unraveled the complex chemical mechanisms of a battery component that is crucial for boosting energy density: the interphase.

Newswise: New manufacturing process produces better, cheaper cathodes for lithium-ion batteries
Released: 5-Dec-2022 12:35 PM EST
New manufacturing process produces better, cheaper cathodes for lithium-ion batteries
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a new method for producing a key component of lithium-ion batteries. The result is a more affordable battery from a faster, less wasteful process that uses less toxic material.

Newswise: To be equitable, US urban green infrastructure planning must transform
Released: 1-Dec-2022 7:45 PM EST
To be equitable, US urban green infrastructure planning must transform
Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies

Across the US, cities have embraced green infrastructure as a way to mitigate flooding, excessive heat, extreme weather, and other urban hazards.

   
Released: 23-Nov-2022 2:45 PM EST
Simple semiconductor solutions could boost solar energy generation and enable better space probes
University of Surrey

A 'simple' tweak to perovskite solar cells during the fabrication stage could help to unlock the untold potential of the renewable energy source, claims research from the University of Surrey.

Released: 14-Nov-2022 5:10 PM EST
Argonne and Oak Ridge national laboratories collaborate with Wabtec on hydrogen-powered trains to decarbonize rail industry
Argonne National Laboratory

Argonne and Oak Ridge national labs have entered into CRADAs with Wabtec, to study hydrogen as an alternative to diesel fuel in the rail industry.

Released: 10-Nov-2022 4:20 PM EST
New technology creates carbon neutral chemicals out of thin air
University of Surrey

It is possible to capture carbon dioxide (CO2) from the surrounding atmosphere and repurpose it into useful chemicals usually made from fossil fuels, according to a study from the University of Surrey.

Newswise: UNC Charlotte, City of Charlotte, Duke Energy win prestigious Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Cleantech Award for curbside electric vehicle charging technology
Released: 10-Nov-2022 2:50 PM EST
UNC Charlotte, City of Charlotte, Duke Energy win prestigious Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Cleantech Award for curbside electric vehicle charging technology
University of North Carolina at Charlotte

UNC Charlotte, the city of Charlotte and Duke Energy have been named the recipient of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Cleantech award by the Research Triangle Cleantech Cluster for their collaborative initiative PoleVolt™, which uses existing streetlights to provide curbside electric vehicle charging.

Released: 10-Nov-2022 1:35 PM EST
Biofuel on the road to energy, cost savings
Argonne National Laboratory

Multilab research shows that biofuel combined with advanced engine design can reduce greenhouse gas emissions while improving fuel efficiency or reducing tailpipe emissions.

Newswise: Ultrathin Solar Cells Promise Improved Satellite Performance
3-Nov-2022 1:40 PM EDT
Ultrathin Solar Cells Promise Improved Satellite Performance
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

As low Earth orbit becomes more cluttered, it becomes increasingly necessary to use middle Earth orbits, and radiation-tolerant cell designs will be needed. Making photovoltaics thinner should increase their longevity because the charge carriers have less far to go during their shortened lifetimes. In Journal of Applied Physics, scientists propose a radiation-tolerant photovoltaic cell design that features an ultrathin layer of light-absorbing material. Compared to thicker cells, nearly 3.5 times less cover glass is needed for the ultra-thin cells to deliver the same amount of power after 20 years of operation.

Newswise: Engineers Spin Off Tech, Company to Market Soy Oil for Better Roads, Pavements
Released: 2-Nov-2022 3:30 PM EDT
Engineers Spin Off Tech, Company to Market Soy Oil for Better Roads, Pavements
Iowa State University

Iowa State researchers have launched a company that's manufacturing and marketing a soy-based additive that extends the life of asphalt pavements and allows contractors to use more recycled asphalt in pavements.



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