The growing demands for energy have prompted scientists at Penn State Behrend and the University of Tabriz, Iran, to complete a new algorithm, or method, to design highly efficient wind farms that would not only help in generating more revenue for builders but would also aid in producing renewable energy for their customers.
A new predictive model put together by an ecologist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a climate scientist at the University of Washington proposes that climate change may allow common ragweed to spread its growing range northward and into big northeast metro areas, worsening conditions for millions of people dealing with asthma and hay fever.
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.
A new study, co-authored by a Portland State University (PSU) professor, shows that a warmer, drier climate is anticipated to increase the possibility of larger-scale disturbances in forests, for example, wildfires, disease, drought, and insect outbreaks.
Landfills release methane gas that has traditionally been the subject of intense interest for alternative energy.
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.
Certain regions of the world are affected worst by water shortages, and with rising global temperatures, many more areas may be experiencing drought conditions.
A set of 17 elements at the bottom of the periodic table is closely entwined with modern life. Most of these metals, referred to as rare earths (REs), are highly magnetic and are used in green power, computing, and other technologies.
Formerly unexploited organic waste can be transformed into biofuel using the technology developed by the scientists from the EU BIOGO project.
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.
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.
In a UK first, a Telford-based company has invested in robotic solar panel cleaning technology. Their investment has come at a time when renewable energy sources – including solar power – are providing almost a third of UK electricity generation.
By Kerry Taylor-Smith
2 Nov 2018
With the future consequences of rising global temperatures, the need for solutions has become progressively urgent. In parallel, a majority of people have voiced concerns regarding loss of jobs as coal-fired power plants and other current technologies are phased out.
Black carbon is formed during the incomplete combustion of carbon-based fuels: post-industrial surges in atmospheric black carbon have contributed massively to the warming of the Earth’s climate, but exactly how these tiny particles contribute to climate change is unclear.
By Kerry Taylor-Smith
2 Nov 2018
Mercury is an incredibly stubborn toxin. Once it is emitted from the smokestacks of coal-fired power plants, among other sources, the gas can drift through the atmosphere for up to a year before settling into oceans and lakes. It can then accumulate in fish as toxic methylmercury, and eventually harm the people who consume the fish.