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Scientists Convert Wet Biowaste into Diesel-Compatible Fuel

In a step toward creating renewable engine fuels that are well-matched with current diesel fuel infrastructure, scientists report they can turn wet biowaste, such as food scraps and swine manure, into a fuel that can be mixed with diesel and that shares diesel’s combustion efficiency and emissions profile.

5 Dec 2018

First 3D-printed Turbine-Blade Mold Fetches Sandia Technology Focus Award

Sandia National Laboratories has designed the first wind turbine blades made from a 3D-printed mold, which could significantly reduce the time & cost of developing innovative wind energy technology.

15 Nov 2018

New System Paves Way Towards Transforming Greenhouse Gases into Industrial Fuels

Visualize a day when emissions spilling from heavy industry and power plants are trapped and conveyed into catalytic reactors that chemically convert greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide (CO2), into chemicals or industrial fuels that release only oxygen.

9 Nov 2018

Importance of Less Intrusive Technologies to Harness Hydropower than Dams

Much of the developed world was built with the help of a renewable source of electricity—hydropower from dams. However, five researchers from Michigan State University (MSU) state that behind the roaring cascades is a legacy of overestimated value and underestimated costs.

7 Nov 2018

Study Explores Use of Geothermal Energy for Powering Desalination Plants

Certain regions of the world are affected worst by water shortages, and with rising global temperatures, many more areas may be experiencing drought conditions.

5 Nov 2018

Replacing Gasoline with Alternative Fuels

Formerly unexploited organic waste can be transformed into biofuel using the technology developed by the scientists from the EU BIOGO project.

5 Nov 2018

MITOS Announces Winners of 2018 Campus Sustainability Incubator Fund Grants

Campus sustainability incubator grants provide funding for innovative projects that bring together faculty, staff, and students and use MIT as a test bed for innovation.

5 Nov 2018

Harnessing Power of Sustainable Energy by Putting Less Expensive Components into More Efficient Batteries

Producing energy can be inefficient, expensive, or toxic to the environment—or some unsuccessful combination of the three. Nonetheless, Jesse Hinricher reasons it doesn’t have to be.

2 Nov 2018

Australian Success Story Wave Swell Energy, the World’s Leading Wave Energy Company, Gives Everyday Aussie Investors the Chance to Invest in the Future of Energy Technology

World leading wave energy tech disruptor Wave Swell Energy today opens up shares in its Australian renewables energy business on leading Equity Crowdfunding platform Equitise.

From Wave Swell Energy 2 Nov 2018

Eco-Revolutionary Stirling Engine Converts Residual Gas into Electricity

With a groundbreaking Stirling engine from the Swedish environmental technology company Ripasso Energy, the largest "waste-to-energy" project of its kind ever implemented in Africa may be realised.

From Ripasso Energy AB 2 Nov 2018