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EPFL Researchers Push Limits of Perovskite Solar Cell Performance

EPFL researchers are pushing the limits of perovskite solar cell performance by exploring the best way to grow these crystals.

10 Jun 2016

Study Shows How Streptomyces Bacteria Could Improve Biofuel Production

Very few valuable things are vital to life as death if we are composed of carbon. A dead tree is a representation of the downfall of the building blocks required for producing new flora and fauna as well as the energy to maintain them.

10 Jun 2016

Electrocatalysis Could Play Significant Role Towards More Sustainable Energy

Electrocatalysis may play a significant role in the evolution of more sustainable energy in the future. Chemist Isis Ledezma Yanez, who will be defending her doctoral thesis on the 9th of June, provides a clear picture on the hydrogen evolution process.

9 Jun 2016

Alaska Airlines Operates First Commercial Flights Using Gevo’s Renewable Alcohol-to-Jet Biofuel

Alaska Airlines today operated the first commercial flights using a 20 percent blend of renewable alcohol-to-jet biofuel produced by Gevo, a renewable chemical and biofuel company. The two flights originated in Seattle with destinations of San Francisco and Washington D.C.

9 Jun 2016

Origin’s New Solar Solution Provides Manufacturing Industry with Cost-Effective Energy Option

After raw material costs, energy costs are the next biggest burden borne by businesses within the manufacturing sector in Australia. Solar energy has been thought of as an ideal option for manufacturing businesses to lower costs; however, the costs to install an adequately large solar system to handle their energy requirements have been very high in most cases.

9 Jun 2016

Understanding Imbalance in World’s Carbon Budget Could Help Predict Course of Global Climate Change

A high-resolution model of how soil erosion impacts the carbon cycle of a small South Carolina watershed may help explain an apparent imbalance in the world’s carbon budget. Explaining that apparent imbalance is necessary for understanding and predicting the course of global climate change.

8 Jun 2016

Researchers Design Molecular Catalyst to Meet Future Hydrogen Energy Needs

Hydrogen-powered cars could soon become a reality with a new, radical technique that process that enables efficient sourcing of hydrogen from liquid formic acid.

7 Jun 2016

Geo-Engineering Could Help Control Phosphorus Pollution in Lake Beds

The biggest cause of water quality degradation around the world is phosphorus. It causes ‘dead zones’, toxic algal to bloom, poses more health risks for the animals, plants, and humans that are exposed to the polluted waters, and leads to loss of biodiversity. This in turn could lead to loss of economic and social profits based on freshwaters upon which society is dependant.

7 Jun 2016

NASA’s Airborne Survey of Polar Ice Completes Eighth Spring Arctic Campaign

Operation IceBridge, NASA’s airborne survey of polar ice, ended its eighth spring Arctic campaign on May 21. During their five weeks of operations, mission scientists carried out six research flights over sea ice and ten over land ice.

7 Jun 2016

AAAS Symposium Highlights Steps to Reduce Carbon Dioxide Emissions

A range of policy solutions is necessary to reduce carbon dioxide emissions generated by the energy and transportation sectors, speakers at a 6 May symposium on energy and the economy said.

3 Jun 2016

Study Reveals Role of Cyanobacteria in Nitrogen Fixation

Scientists at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) have analyzed the process of nitrogen fixation by cyanobacteria, creating a mathematical model which allows to understand the patterns they form.

3 Jun 2016

'Bionic Leaf' System Uses Solar Energy to Generate Liquid Fuels

The days of drilling into the ground in the search for fuel may be numbered, because if Daniel Nocera has his way, it’ll just be a matter of looking for sunny skies.

3 Jun 2016

NASA Evaluates Impact of Climate Change on Arctic Vegetation

The northern reaches of North America are getting greener, according to a NASA study that provides the most detailed look yet at plant life across Alaska and Canada. In a changing climate, almost a third of the land cover – much of it Arctic tundra – is looking more like landscapes found in warmer ecosystems.

3 Jun 2016

Researchers Successfully Recover Important Metals from Battery Waste with Nearly 100% Purity

Researchers have succeeded in recovering important metals – lithium, cobalt and nickel – from battery waste with nearly 100 per cent purity. Recovered metals will be needed increasingly in the manufacture of batteries, and in the future especially in batteries of electric vehicles.

3 Jun 2016

Nanoparticles Could Make Wind Turbines, Electric Cars More Affordable

Rare earth elements are critical materials that are largely depended by many technologies ranging from electric vehicles to wind turbines. Although these materials are abundantly available, it is expensive and also difficult to obtain.

3 Jun 2016