The Battle Building at the University of Virginia Health System has earned a Gold rating from the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program.
To move the world toward sustainability, scientists are continuing to explore and improve ways to tap the vast power of sunlight to make fuels and generate electricity.
Scientists at The University of Manchester have made an important discovery that forms the basis for the development of new applications in biofuels and the sustainable manufacturing of chemicals.
Geologists and archaeologists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Germany), La Trobe University (Australia) and the University of Wollongong (Australia) identify previously unrecognised evidence for a "mega-lake" in the Australian desert 24,000 years ago, at the site of Lake Mungo in south-eastern Australia.
UC Irvine researchers conducted two new studies using data from NASA Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment satellites and reported rapid draining of water in some of the large groundwater basins worldwide due to human consumption. Further, there is less or no data available on the remaining amount of water in these basins.
The research group at the NIMS Photovoltaic Materials Unit achieved 15% energy conversion efficiency in perovskite solar cells for the first time certified at an international public test center.
U.S.-based Rayton Solar Inc is en route to revolutionize the world – by making solar energy cheaper than energy produced by fossil fuels. To date they have raised over one million dollars in seed funding.
SunEdison, Inc., the world's largest renewable energy development company, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Continuum Wind Energy Limited, Singapore with assets in India. Continuum owns and operates 242 megawatts (MW) AC of wind power plants in Maharashtra and Gujarat states, as well as 170 MW of wind power under construction in Madhya Pradesh state, and has more than 1,000 MW of wind power plants in development across six states in India.
Enphase Energy, Inc., and My Generation Energy, Inc., a southeastern Massachusetts-based solar installer and developer, announced today the completion and commissioning of the Sippican Community Solar Garden® in Marion, Mass. The 900-kilowatt-DC commercial project is the largest North American installation to date featuring the advanced Enphase® C250 Microinverter System.
Suniva, Inc., a U.S. manufacturer of high-efficiency monocrystalline silicon solar cells and modules, today announces that several commercial rooftop projects in California are producing power using its premier module line, Optimus®.
JinkoSolar Holding Co., Ltd. ("JinkoSolar" or "the Company"), a global leader in the photovoltaic (PV) industry, today announced it has entered into a supply agreement to be a strategic partner to Vivint Solar, a leading provider of distributed solar energy to residential customers in the United
The poor performance of the mineral hematite began the quest for the identification of a suitable method for mining electron-rich hydrogen to achieve clean power. Researchers from the Boston College, UC Berkeley and China's University of Science and Technology have developed a smoother form of hematite by 're-growing' the mineral's surface. The new version was found to increase the electrical yield by twofold, paving way for the energy-harvesting artificial photosynthesis. The research was published in the Nature Communications journal.
A team of researchers from the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and LMI has performed a study which revealed that the speed of global warming over the last 15 years of this century has been as fast or faster when compared to the rate seen over the last half of the 20th century. The study, which has been published online in the journal Science, contradicts the idea that there has been a hiatus or slowdown in the rate of global warming over the past few years. The researchers used the new global surface temperature data to arrive at this conclusion.
A research team from Oregon State University has discovered that reservoirs on the Klamath River contain harmful algal blooms that are capable of travelling over 180 miles along the lower parts of the river in just a matter of days. These blooms are unaffected while travelling via hydroelectric turbines and ultimately lead to unsafe water conditions downriver in northern California.
By Alessandro Pirolini
17 Jun 2015
An immensely powerful yet invisible force pulls water from the earth to the top of the tallest redwood and delivers snow to the tops of the Himalayas.