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Photon Recycling can Provide a Pathway Towards High-Efficiency Solar Energy Conversion

Metal halide perovskites are receiving great attention as next-generation semiconductors for solar energy conversion. Since the first demonstration of 3.8% efficiency in 2009, efficiencies have increased rapidly and state-of-the-art perovskite solar cells exhibit high efficiencies over 25%, close to the record efficiencies of silicon photovoltaics.

17 Jan 2022

Innovative Bioenergy Model Helps Boosts Renewable Energy Source

An innovative bioenergy model developed at West Virginia University called "FUN-BioCROP" will help farmers better manage production while also boosting a renewable energy source that will not increase atmospheric carbon dioxide.

17 Jan 2022

The loo Taboo: New Study Explores Uptake of Controversial Technologies

Researchers have provided an important insight into the cultural taboo surrounding an innovative ‘green’ technology that enables users to transform their domestic toilet waste into biogas.

13 Jan 2022

Using Image Processing Tools in Renewable Energy Systems

This book is beneficial for the researchers to work and focus on the hybrid techniques of GIS, remote sensing, image processing, and its implementation on the setup and applications of renewable energy resources. Due to population growth and modernization, the demand and supply system is unbalanced, which directly affects the environmental condition.

12 Jan 2022

New System Utilizes Renewable Electricity to Directly Convert Carbon Dioxide into Pure Formic Acid

Anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide bring a series of climatic and environmental problems including global warming. Artificially upcycling of carbon dioxide into value-added fuels and chemicals, powered by "green electricity" of renewable energy, provides an elegant route to close the anthropogenic carbon cycle.

4 Jan 2022

First WAGABOX® Landfill Gas to RNG Project in the US Confirmed

Waga Energy is joining forces with Steuben County (New York, USA) on a Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) project at the county’s Bath landfill.

From Waga Energy 4 Jan 2022

Fugro’s New Environmental Lander Technology Deployed in the Red Sea

Fugro has deployed two new autonomous environmental landers off the coast of Saudi Arabia to collect oceanographic data in deep and remote areas of the Red Sea.

From Fugro 22 Dec 2021

NREL Sets Up Heliostat Consortium to Develop Advanced Heliostat Technology

The Heliostat Consortium (HelioCon), an international initiative to reduce the price of heliostats, has been launched by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), in partnership with Sandia National Laboratories and the Australian Solar Thermal Research Institute.

21 Dec 2021

Crossflow Energy Launches Revolutionary Small Wind Turbine

Crossflow Energy, the renewable energy technology specialist, has launched the Crossflow Wind Turbine. Reliable and easy to install, the unique turbine specifically addresses the issues that have historically inhibited the adoption of small-scale wind.

From Crossflow Energy 21 Dec 2021

Three Full-Scale Trials Announced to Help Boost Farm Waste Digestion

Three full-scale industrial trials have been announced at farm sites in Scotland and the East Midlands aimed at unlocking what has been described as the “enormous potential” of anaerobic digestion in tackling farm waste and climate change, and giving the industry confidence to grow.

20 Dec 2021