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Researchers Develop New Biosupercapacitor that Efficiently Generates and Stores Energy

Efficient production and storage of energy - for example, for implanted medical systems - is a major challenge for today’s society. Now, scientists have developed a new biocatalyst-polymer system that could perform both tasks at once. This system is a hybrid of a fuel cell and capacitor on a biocatalytic basis.

16 Nov 2016

New Model Could Predict Energy Yields for Photovoltaic System

Researchers at UPM make available for the general public programmes to simulate the functioning and predict the energy production of photovoltaic systems.

16 Nov 2016

New Research Offers Prospect of Cheap and Efficient Solar Cells

New research led by Heriot-Watt is offering the prospect of cheap and efficient solar cells of a conformable type that could be worn on the body or even painted onto windows.

16 Nov 2016

HyperSolar’s Lab-Scale Prototype Successfully Produces Renewable Hydrogen from Iowa River Water

HyperSolar, Inc., the developer of a breakthrough technology to produce renewable hydrogen using sunlight and any source of water, today released a video demonstration of its prototype successfully producing hydrogen using water from the Iowa River, an indication of the technology’s potential in real world settings.

16 Nov 2016

Stanford Study Reveals Battery Electric Cars Reduce Emissions Better Than Fuel Cell Vehicles

Electric vehicles running on batteries would be a better investment than hydrogen fuel cells in a number of communities.

15 Nov 2016

Alaska Airlines Flies First Commercial Flight Using New Renewable Biofuel

Washington state-based Alaska Airlines today made history flying the first commercial flight using the world's first renewable, alternative jet fuel made from forest residuals, the limbs and branches that remain after the harvesting of managed forests.

15 Nov 2016

Research on Advanced Energy Storage System

A novel marine pumped storage system has been created by a team of researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy and Energy System Technology (IWES).

14 Nov 2016

Lehigh University Study Prepares for Shared Economy in Renewable Electric Power

An economic revolution – the so-called sharing economy – has been on the rise in recent years.

11 Nov 2016

Scientists Identify Key Ecological Processes Necessary to Support Healthy Ecosystems on Earth

Climate change is affecting most life on Earth, despite an average global temperature increase of just 1oC, say leading international scientists in a study published today in Science.

11 Nov 2016

Indian Ocean’s Agulhas Current Getting Wider as Global Climate Changes, Study Finds

A new study by University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science researchers found that the Indian Ocean's Agulhas Current is getting wider rather than strengthening.

10 Nov 2016

Study Suggests Presence of More Carbonate and Bicarbonate Ions Below Earth’s Upper Mantle

Understanding how carbon dissolves in water at the molecular level under extreme conditions is critical to understanding the Earth's deep carbon cycle--a process that ultimately influences global climate change.

10 Nov 2016

Increase in CO2 Levels Impact Warm Climates More than Cold Climates

The scientific community is very much aware of the well-established fact that an increase in atmospheric CO2 levels leads to global warming. However, with respect to the average global temperature, the effect of global warming may differ.

10 Nov 2016

New Greenhouse-Gas Data Proves Reservoirs to be Vital Source of Greenhouse Gases

Discussions of topical issues associated with the biological sciences are featured in the BioScience Talks podcast.

10 Nov 2016

Microbial, CO2-Based Biotechnology Could Help Reprocess Industrial Waste Gases

Microbes are already used on a wide scale for the production of fuels and base chemicals, but for this most of them have to be “fed” with sugar.

9 Nov 2016

Highly Concentrated Electrolytes Help Improve Cycle Life of Sodium-Oxygen Batteries

The demand for an efficient battery is greatly increasing as there are numerous electronic products such as laptops, smartphones, and electric cars in the market today.

8 Nov 2016