Taken from the bottom of the marine food chain, microalgae may soon become a top-tier contender to combat global warming, climate change and food insecurity, according to Cornell researchers in Oceanography.
New catalyst provides design principles for producing fuels from carbon dioxide emissions.
Researchers have created a new type of solar cell that replaces silicon with a crystal called perovskite. This design converts sunlight to electricity at efficiencies similar to current technology but at much lower cost.
Scientists are pursuing a tiny solution for harnessing one of the world’s most abundant sources of clean energy: Water.
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The results, published in Nature, could pave the way to the cleaner production of methanol, an important industrial feedstock and potential green fuel.
Fabrics that can generate electricity from physical movement have been in the works for a few years. Now researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology have taken the next step, developing a fabric that can simultaneously harvest energy from both sunshine and motion.
New research at Michigan State University and published in the current issue of Nature Communications shows how Geobacter bacteria grow as films on electrodes and generate electricity – a process that’s ready to be scaled up to industrial levels.
A nuclear power plant that will float eight or more miles out to sea promises to be safer, cheaper, and easier to deploy than today’s land-based plants.
Stanford engineer Yi Cui and colleagues have developed new ways to improve hydrogen production and rechargeable zinc batteries.
Wouldn’t it be cool if you could turn those discarded banana peels and eggshells into fuel for your car, just like Doc Brown did in “Back to the Future?” Technology to do that is in development at the University of Minnesota College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences.