renewable energy

New solvent triples the rate of return and could tip the renewable fuel market in favor of biomass

Technologies for converting non-edible biomass into chemicals and fuels traditionally made from petroleum exist aplenty.

Detailed visual simulation shows global 100% renewable electricity system targeted for 2030

A new model developed by Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) shows how an electricity system

New tool can calculate renewable energy output anywhere in the world

Researchers have created an interactive web tool to estimate the amount of energy that could

Tough New Catalyst Could Make Renewable Fuels Production Cheaper and More Efficient

Discovery Could Make Water-splitting Reaction Cheaper, More Efficient Researchers at Stanford University and the Department

Garden grass could become a source of cheap and clean renewable energy

A team of UK researchers, including experts from Cardiff University’s Cardiff Catalysis Institute, have shown

Turning Human Waste into Next Generation Biofuel

Researchers affiliated with Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), South Korea, have found

Renewable Energy Stumbles and Staggers Toward the Future

It was just last summer that SunEdison was a Wall Street darling, the very air

Iron nitride transformers could boost energy storage options

Smaller. Cheaper. Better. A Sandia-led team has developed a way to make a magnetic material

Stanford engineers develop state-by-state plan to convert U.S. to 100% clean, renewable energy by 2050

Stanford engineers develop state-by-state plan to convert U.S. to 100% clean, renewable energy by 2050

Space technology “could reduce cost of renewable energy”

Space-based radar technology could be harnessed by the renewable energy sector to drive down costs,

Research Team Invents Electrical Power Converter for Renewable Energy

Engineering researchers at the University of Arkansas have invented a novel electrical power converter system

Stanford study shows how to power California with wind, water and sun

New Stanford research outlines the path to a possible future for California in which renewable

Picture 1: A comparison of the reflection from a cover glass on a crystalline Silicon cell with and without the multilayer AR coating.
Scientists come up with method of reducing solar panel glare

The glare from solar farms could be a thing of the past, thanks to scientists

"We’re talking about the use of physics at the nanoscale for a completely new application," says Federico Capasso. (Image courtesy of Steven J. Byrnes.)
Infrared: A new renewable energy source?

Harvard physicists propose a device to capture energy from earth’s infrared emissions to outer space.

KAIST announces a novel technology to produce gasoline by a metabolically-engineered microorganism

A major scientific breakthrough in the development of renewable energy sources and other important chemicals