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Florida Poly to Introduce New Course on Renewable Energy Systems and Sustainability with Online Event

Students at Florida Polytechnic University have an opportunity to sign up for an exclusive new course focused on renewable energy systems and sustainability. Available fall 2016, the course combines fundamental concepts and application with hands-on learning for creating sustainable and renewable energy technologies.

22 Mar 2016

Sugarcane Yields Greater Proportion of Biodiesel

The U.S. is the largest oil consuming country in the world, exceeding all other nations across the globe. This fact highlights this unsustainable practice, and because of this Congress issued a new directive in 2007 to move from the limited petroleum-based oils to more sustainable sources.

21 Mar 2016

First Step to Prove BYD’s Mature Technology to Provide Reliable Electrified Public Transportation

On March 16, 2016, an 18-meter articulated pure electric BYD bus covered the over 400 km distance between Bogota and Medellin with one single battery charge, in a non-stop test preparation journey of the BYD zero emission bus to initiate Medellin. The topography of Medellin is characterized by frequent and often exceedingly steep slopes, and this successful journey was the first step to prove BYD’s mature technology to provide reliable electrified public transportation.

21 Mar 2016

Study Shows China’s Sweeping Program to Restore Forests Across Country is Working

China’s sweeping program to restore forests across the country is working.

21 Mar 2016

Calcifying Species can Dissolve During Night Due to More-Acidic Conditions Caused by Community Respiration

A new study, based on the most-extensive set of measurements ever made in tide pools, suggests that ocean acidification will increasingly put many marine organisms at risk by exacerbating normal changes in ocean chemistry that occur overnight. Conducted along California’s rocky coastline, the study from Carnegie’s Ken Caldeira and Lester Kwiatkowski shows that the most-vulnerable organisms are likely to be those with calcium carbonate shells or skeletons. It is published by Scientific Reports.

21 Mar 2016

Researchers Explore Feasibility of Flexible Biogas Production

Biogas is an important energy source that plays a central role in the energy revolution. Unlike wind or solar energy, biogas can be produced around the clock. Could it soon perhaps even be produced to meet demand? A team of international scientists, including microbiologists from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), scientists from Aarhus University and process engineers from the Deutsches Biomasseforschungszentrum (DBFZ), have been studying the feasibility of this kind of flexible biogas production.

18 Mar 2016

Carbonized Fungal Biomass-Manganese Oxide Mineral Composite Holds Potential for Energy Storage Devices

You probably don't think much of fungi, and especially those that turn bread moldy, but researchers reporting in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on March 17, 2016 have evidence that might just change your mind. Their findings suggest that a red bread mold could be the key to producing more sustainable electrochemical materials for use in rechargeable batteries.

18 Mar 2016

EPFL Scientists Achieve Record-Level Reproducibility for Perovskite Solar Cells

EPFL scientists achieve the highest yet reproducibility for perovskite solar cells combined with a boundary-pushing 21.1% efficiency at normal operating conditions.

18 Mar 2016

New Insights into Role of Greenhouse Gases from Land Ecosystems in Climate Change

A new research paper published in Nature, advances the understanding of how greenhouse gases from forests, grasslands, and agriculture other than carbon dioxide play a role in climate change.

18 Mar 2016

Cost-Effective, Compact Microbial Fuel Cells to Generate Electricity from Urine

A new fuel cell that transforms urine into electricity could revolutionize bioenergy production, especially in developing countries. The research work, published in Electrochimica Acta, discusses a new microbial fuel, which is cheaper, smaller in size and more powerful than the conventional ones.

17 Mar 2016

Biological-Based Fuel Cell Uses Waste Tomatoes to Generate Electricity

A group of scientists are working to generate electricity from an unusual source: damaged tomatoes, which are not fit to be sold at grocery stores. The pilot project involves a biological-based fuel cell, which utilizes waste tomatoes discarded during harvests in Florida.

17 Mar 2016

UW Researchers Use New Method to Map Hundreds of Wetlands

For two University of Washington researchers, the real test came as they walked across a barren-looking field.

17 Mar 2016

Researchers Examine Natural Climate Variations 5 Million Years Back to See Key Features of the Earth’s Climate

The Earth’s climate system is characterised by complex interactions between the atmosphere, oceans, ice sheets, landmasses and the biosphere (parts of the world with plant and animal life).

17 Mar 2016

All-Valencian Project to Transform Industrial Waste into Hydrogen Fuel Cells

H2ALRECYCLING is a Valencian project for designing and building a pilot plant to transform hydrogen fuel cells from industrial waste.

17 Mar 2016

Study Findings Help Understand How Vulnerable the Arctic is to Climate Change

A new study of permafrost has found that the ice wedges forming the prevalent honeycomb pattern across the tundra appear to be melting rapidly across the Arctic, changing the hydrology of the region and accelerating the release of greenhouse gases with major implications for global warming.

16 Mar 2016