Energy Sources

ASU continues to keep solar shining in Phoenix Metro areaCredit: Deanna Dent/ASU Now Arizona State University has received five prestigious Department of Energy awards totaling $9.8 million in this year's Solar Energy Technologies…

Credit: (Samanta et al. 2019, Science; Data courtesy of BBSO/GST and NASA/SDO) An international team of scientists, including three researchers from New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), has shed new light on one of the…

Catalysts accelerate chemical reactions, but the widely used metal platinum is scarce and expensive. Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), together with Chinese, Singaporean and Japanese researchers, have now…

Credit: NASA A new instrument with its eye on the Moon is taking off aboard a high-altitude NASA plane to measure the Moon's brightness and eventually help Earth observing sensors make more accurate measurements. The airborne Lunar…

Credit: Lander et al. Fractures are everywhere. They are the cracks in the sidewalk. The rifts in roadcuts. The spidery textures in brick and boulders. And those are just the fractures visible at the surface.…

Using waste heat helps cut cost of producing hydrogenCredit: Illustration: NTNU In June, the International Energy Agency confirmed what most experts already know: that the world should work harder to boost the use of pure…

Arindam Banerjee's lab uses innovative active grid turbulence generator to mimic water conditions of Verdant Power's Roosevelt Island Tidal Energy (RITE) ProjectCredit: Arindam Banerjee Imagine a single tidal turbine capable of…

ORNL team partners with Electric Power Board to test energy savings on building simulatorCredit: Joshua New, ORNL Buildings use 40 percent of America's primary energy and 75 percent of its electricity, which can jump to 80 percent when a…

ORNL's Dan Jacobson and team design algorithms for climate-resilient cropsCredit: Pixabay How might artificial intelligence (AI) impact agriculture, the food industry, and the field of bioengineering? Dan Jacobson, a research and…

North Carolina State University researchers have developed what is, to date, the most efficient means of converting sewage sludge and restaurant grease into methane. After treating sewage, wastewater treatment plants are left with solid…