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Researchers Seek Biological Solution to Trap or Recycle Carbon Dioxide

Researchers have found that E. coli bacteria could possess the key to an efficient technique of trapping and storing or recycling carbon dioxide (CO2).

9 Jan 2018

New Desalination Technique Requires Less Energy to Purify Salty Water

It may become a little easier to provide safer drinking water to those in need. According to Penn State researchers, a new desalination method is able to remove salt from water using less energy than earlier approaches.

3 Jan 2018

Study Proposes Standardizing Measurements of Perovskite Aging

EPFL researchers have created a data-driven proposal for regulating the measurements of perovskite solar cell stability and degradation. Published in Nature Energy, the research focusses on creating consensus in the field and overcoming one of the big obstacles on the way to marketing perovskite photovoltaics.

2 Jan 2018

Researchers Identify Large Non-Traditional Sites for Future Solar Farms

There is a tradeoff when expansive solar farms are built on agricultural land: farmland vanishes, perhaps forever, in return for progress in the promising renewable energy sector.

20 Dec 2017

Study Reveals Unforeseen Side Effect to Cleaning Up Pollution over Urban Areas

According to a new research from Caltech, an imbalance between the trends in two common air pollutants is unpredictably activating the formation of a class of airborne organic compounds not typically found in the atmosphere over urban areas of North America.

19 Dec 2017

New Method May Help U.S. Coal Plants Lower Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Carbon capture could help the country’s coal plants minimize greenhouse gas emissions, however economic challenges are part of the reason the technology is not extensively used at present. That could transform if power plants could convert captured carbon into a usable product.

18 Dec 2017