Tag: Energy & Green Tech
Wildfires knocked out power to an entire county. A microgrid of generators brought it back
Credit: CC0 Public Domain After an onslaught of about 150 lightning strikes hit one of California’s most drought-stricken regions last month, sparking more than two dozen fires, the flames spread…
Reduced nitrogen oxide emissions from industrial vehicles ahead
NOx emissions from offroad and industrial vehicles are an ongoing problem. Credit: Shannon Colson for Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Just a couple decades ago, nitrogen oxide emissions routinely plagued cities’…
New methodology reveals health, climate impacts of reducing buildings’ energy use
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Increasing energy efficiency in buildings can save money—and it can also decrease the carbon emissions and air pollution that lead to climate change and health harms.…
Farmers are famously self-reliant. Why not use farm dams as mini-hydro plants?
Credit: Shutterstock/Olga Kashubin Farmers often pride themselves on their self-reliance. When you live far from the cities, it makes sense to do as much as possible yourself. Australia’s sheer size…
Bioengineered E. coli generates electricity from wastewater
Flasks containing the electricity-producing E. coli. Credit: Jamani Caillet (EPFL) In a breakthrough for the field of bioelectronics, researchers at EPFL have enhanced the ability of E. coli bacteria to…
Research team develops 2-liter class hydrogen engine capable of running entirely on hydrogen
Hydrogen engine test and development. Credit: Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials (KIMM) Amid the fierce competition throughout the globe to develop hydrogen mobility technologies to achieve carbon neutrality, a…
Scientists develop an energy-efficient wireless power and information transfer system
The SWIPT-NOMA-DAS framework is five times more efficient than SWIPT-NOMA without DAS and performs 10% better than SWIPT-OMA-DAS, a significant boost for the IoT communications technology. Credit: Associate Professor Dong-Wook…
Researchers are on a quest to make hydrogen from solar rays and heat
Spain hosts the largest test center in Europe for concentrated solar technologies. Credit: © PLATAFORMA SOLAR DE ALMERÍA / CIEMAT As Europe turns increasingly to clean sources of energy, EU…
