To make fuel cells more economical, engineers want a fast and efficient iron-based molecule that splits hydrogen gas to make electricity. Online Feb. 17 at Nature Chemistry, researchers repo... Read more
We absorb the heat from your body, and that heat is funneled through a thermoelectric generator that converts it into electric power. Never run out of batteries again. With this new tech cal... Read more
Can extract five to seven times more uranium at uptake rates seven times faster than the world’s best adsorbents Fueling nuclear reactors with uranium harvested from the ocean could be... Read more
The pilot system they have built generates enough electricity to power the average American home A new, small-scale solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) system developed at the Department of... Read more
Think of it as a giant energy bank. Withdraw when you need it; deposit when you don’t. The concept has been used before, most notably in the natural gas storage facilities that... Read more
Significant implications for both climate science and sustainable development Increases in air pollution and other particulate matter in the atmosphere can strongly affect cloud devel... Read more
We all know that Ants are cleaners of environments. Wherever they go, they eat away the dead and the decaying. In this way they are very useful for nature. In computers too we have malwares... Read more
High oil prices and environmental and economic security concerns have triggered interest in using algae-derived oils as an alternative to fossil fuels. But growing algae — or any other... Read more
New ideas for making sodium sulfur batteries could make them the answer for taming the variability of wind and solar power. EaglePicher Technologies, a manufacturer of specialized batteries... Read more
Jerry Brous of Sequim, Wash., participated in a study to determine whether giving people more information about their electricity use and costs will prompt them to save energy. Giving people... Read more
In the continuing search for ever more efficient and cheaper batteries, researchers at the Department of Energy’s (DoE) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have managed to increase... Read more
Rechargeable lithium ion batteries are used in everything from mobile phones to cars. Most of the batteries available today are designed with an oxide of metal such as cobalt, nickel, or man... Read more
Image by PNNL – Pacific Northwest National Laboratory via Flickr Biofuels hold promise as environmentally friendly sources of renewable energy, but which ones should industry and polic... Read more