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$12.6 Million to Support Cornell Energy Center in Developing Advanced Fuel Cell Technologies

Cornell University's Center for Alkaline-Based Energy Solutions (CABES) has received renewal funding of $12.6 million for a four-year period to continue its work developing advanced fuel cell technologies in alkaline media.

29 Aug 2022

Hydropower Dams Have Links to Species Extinctions

Deforestation, habitat loss, and fragmentation are all linked and contributing to the current biodiversity catastrophe, with hydropower being responsible for the majority of this degradation.

29 Aug 2022

Sercel Makes Another Major Sale of its Nodal OBN Solution

CGG announced today that Sercel has sold a second batch of 12,000 GPR300 nodes to BGP Inc., following their earlier major order of 18,000 GPR300 nodes in 2021.

From Viridien 29 Aug 2022

Record-Breaking Heat Events of Recent Summers to Become Much More Common in 2100

Record-breaking heat waves have occurred recently from Delhi to the Pacific Northwest, and the number of these deadly events is expected to increase. New research from the University of Washington and Harvard University gives a range of heat impacts worldwide by the end of this century, depending on future emissions of greenhouse gases.

26 Aug 2022

Green Material Absorbs Light More Strongly than Conventional Solar Cell Technologies

Solar cells are vital for the green energy transition. They can be used not only on rooftops and solar farms but also for powering autonomous vehicles, such as planes and satellites. However, photovoltaic solar cells are currently heavy and bulky, making them difficult to transport to remote locations off-grid, where they are much needed.

26 Aug 2022

Chinese Cities Reduce CO2 Emissions Despite Growing Economies and Populations

Thirty-eight Chinese cities have reduced their emissions of planet-warming carbon dioxide (CO2) despite growing economies and populations for at least five years - defined as proactively peaked cities, a new study reveals.

26 Aug 2022

Siberia Records the Warmest Summers of the Last 7,000 Years

The north of Western Siberia is recording the warmest summers of the last 7,000 years. While for several millennia the temperature of the region was following a general cooling, in the 19th century there has been an abrupt change with rapidly rising temperature that has reached its highest value in the recent decades. These findings were published today in Nature Communications.

26 Aug 2022

Adaptation to Climate Change Requires More Energy than Previously Estimated, Study Finds

A new study published today in Nature Communications by researchers from the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, the European Institute on Economics and the Environment and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine finds that adapting to climate change will require more energy than previously estimated, leading to higher energy investments and costs.

26 Aug 2022

Towards Better and Sustainable Weather Forecasting in the Southern Hemisphere

The high-latitude region of the Southern Hemisphere suffers from erroneous weather forecasting owing to an infrequent distribution of observation networks.

26 Aug 2022

Safe, Sustainable Storage for Renewable Energy Sources

MIT researchers have developed a new type of fast-charging battery, which is composed of abundant materials that are relatively cheap, and could meet sustainable energy storage needs in today’s world.

By David J. Cross 25 Aug 2022

Facing Water Scarcity with Hybrid Desalination Technologies

KIST researchers have created solar and hydrothermal energy-based membrane distillation techniques. By using these specialized membrane distillation technologies for the features of the geographical climate, system efficiency is expected to be maximized.

25 Aug 2022

Developing New R&D Methods for a Greener Mining

Moving to greener technology has become a necessity in every aspect of human life as the globe deals with the global climate issue. Naturally, businesses that are essential to daily lives are implementing such technologies into their operations.

25 Aug 2022

New Aluminum-Sulfur Battery Could Provide Low-Cost Backup Storage for Renewable Energy

As the world builds out ever larger installations of wind and solar power systems, the need is growing fast for economical, large-scale backup systems to provide power when the sun is down and the air is calm. Today's lithium-ion batteries are still too expensive for most such applications, and other options such as pumped hydro require specific topography that's not always available.

25 Aug 2022