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Full Absorption Concept Design for Efficient Electromagnetic Energy Harvesting

For our modern, technologically-advanced society, in which technology has become the solution to a myriad of challenges, energy is critical not only for growth but also, more importantly, survival. The sun is an abundant and practically infinite source of energy, so researchers around the world are racing to create novel approaches to "harvest" clean energy from the sun or transfer that energy to other sources.

16 Apr 2015

New Book on Efforts at Argonne National Lab to Build Rechargeable Super Battery

So secretive were efforts to create the first self-sustained nuclear reaction in 1942 that physicist Enrico Fermi and his Manhattan Project team quietly toiled beneath the stands of Stagg Field and communicated with each other in code.

31 Mar 2015

Breakthrough Solution Harvests Energy from Wastewater Treatment Plants Using Fuel Cell Technology

The EU project SOFCOM is coordinated by Politecnico di Torino. The project developed a break-through solution to transform the organic waste collected in wastewater treatment plants into valuable energy products through the use of high-efficiency fuel cell technology.

30 Mar 2015

Discovery of Strongest Bonds Using Supercomputers May Help Develop Catalysts for Biofuel Production

One of life's strongest bonds has been discovered by a science team researching biofuels with the help of supercomputers. Their find could boost efforts to develop catalysts for biofuel production from non-food waste plants.

18 Mar 2015

BNL Energy Researcher Honored with 2015 ‘Eye on Biodiesel’ Award

The National Biodiesel Board (NBB) recently honored Tom Butcher, an energy researcher at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, with a 2015 “Eye on Biodiesel” award in the Innovation category.

18 Mar 2015

Researchers Join Forces to Develop Smart Data Platform to Reduce Energy Consumption

Infrastructure operators are already pushing the boundaries of what conventional energy management systems can cope with. This led Fraunhofer IAO and partners from the research and industrial communities to join forces as part of the SmartEnergyHub project to develop a smart data platform that reduces energy consumption by optimizing operational processes.

16 Mar 2015

Royal Oak Ford Reduces Lighting Energy Use with CGE Energy's New Cree LED Lighting

CGE Energy (currently trading as MKBY:OTCPink) has made strides in the automotive sales industry by bringing real energy savings with Cree® LED lighting to a large number of car dealerships. Royal Oak Ford of Southeast Michigan recently became another recipient of these energy savings.

9 Mar 2015

Potentials and Challenges of “Synthetic” Fuels

Last Wednesday the lecture theatre at the Empa Academy was filled to the very last seat as speakers from the automobile, energy and finance sectors as well as researchers and those involved in the politics of energy presented their views on the potentials and challenges of “synthetic” fuels.

3 Mar 2015

Research Findings Could Help Generate Low-Cost Clean Energy from PEM Fuel Cells

For nearly half a century, scientists have been trying to replace precious metal catalysts in fuel cells. Now, for the first time, researchers at Case Western Reserve University have shown that an inexpensive metal-free catalyst performs as well as costly metal catalysts at speeding the oxygen reduction reaction in an acidic fuel cell.

2 Mar 2015

Lux Research Adds Benchmarking and Geospatial Analytics with Energy Points Acquisition

Lux Research, a global leader in emerging technology research and advisory services, announced today that it has acquired the assets of Energy Points, a leading provider of data and analytics that gives the most accurate and precise analysis of energy and resources.

27 Feb 2015