Energy Sources

Air pollution is currently the largest environmental risk factor for human health globally and can be linked to several million cases of premature deaths every year. A new study however shows that it is possible to achieve clean air…

Special Issue 'Status of the SPARC Physics Basis', from the 'Journal of Plasma Physics'Credit: CFS/MIT-PSFC - CAD Rendering by T. Henderson As part of the Journal of Plasma Physics' continuing focus on the scientific progress in…

Yet there is ambivalence in many publics over developments in AI, workplace automation, food science WASHINGTON, D.C. (Sept. 29, 2020) - As publics around the world look to scientists and the research and development process to bring new…

Seven studies describe progress thus far and challenges ahead for a revolutionary zero-emissions power source. CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Two and a half years ago, MIT entered into a research agreement with startup company Commonwealth Fusion…

A new approach to reduce fuel cell crossoverCredit: Christian Fleury The research team of INRS (Institut national de la recherche scientifique) Professor Mohamed Mohamedi has designed a green membraneless fuel cell that uses oxygen…

No climate benefit from hydrogen unless EU stops subsidies for fossil fuels "Hydrogen can help reduce our dependency on fossil fuels," says William Gillett, EASAC's Energy Programme Director. "But the climate benefits will be limited, if…

Discovery of a topological change of an interfacial hydrodynamics by a partial miscibility and creating a cross-disciplinary discipline of chemical thermodynamics and interfacial hydrodynamicsCredit: Yuichiro Nagatsu/TUAT, Takahiko Ban/…

University of Toronto Engineering researchers estimate that meeting UN climate targets would require up to 90% of US passenger vehicles to be electric by 2050, a scenario considered unrealistic Today there are more than 7 million electric…

Credit: © 2020 Amanda Lenzi Optimizing the integration of wind energy into a country's power network requires reliable forecasts of how wind speed and direction are likely to vary in time and space over the pending few hours. KAUST…

Stanford model shows how fluids unlock faults to unleash earthquake swarms Earthquakes can be abrupt bursts of home-crumbling, ground-buckling energy when slices of the planet's crust long held in place by friction suddenly slip and lurch.…

According to a new review paper, published in Journal of The Electrochemical Society, industry leaders feel that battery safety standards do not represent real-world scenarios that could cause fires and are therefore not robust enough to…

New bench systems improve accelerated aging of emissions control systems SAN ANTONIO -- Sept. 22, 2020 -- Southwest Research Institute has added two test stands to its Exhaust Composition Transient Operation Laboratory -- ECTO-Lab™.…

In 2016, a supercomputer beat the world champion in Go, a complicated board game. How? By using reinforcement learning, a type of artificial intelligence whereby computers train themselves after being programmed with simple instructions.…

Credit: Diamond Light Source & University of Oxford A new paper published today in Nature Energy reveals how a collaborative team of researchers have been able to fully identify the nature of oxidised oxygen in the important…

Innovative research by Kazan Federal University was publicized in early access in EnergyCredit: Kazan Federal University Copper stearate was used as the basis for this catalyst test and showed efficiency for in-situ oil combustion.…

IIASA researchers have developed a novel measurement framework to track energy poverty that better aligns with the services people lack rather than capturing the mere absence of physical connections to a source of electricity. This…

20% of US airports have adopted solar power in the last decade By studying 488 public airports in the United States, University of Colorado Denver School of Public Affairs researcher Serena Kim, PhD, found that 20% of them have adopted…

Energy resiliency, clean energy, national security will be focuses of agreementCredit: Photo by Randy Montoya, Sandia National Laboratories ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Sandia National Laboratories and New Mexico's largest electricity…

Credit: uOttawa Seven University of Ottawa professors are among recipients of millions in funding from The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) aimed at improving the response to challenges posed by the COVID-19…