Energy Sources

Researchers at KIT and the University of Edinburgh show that previous measures to reduce global warming through land use change are insufficientCredit: source: Markus Breig/KIT Significantly less than two degrees Celsius above…

Coal-fired power plants produce more than just the carbon dioxide that contributes to global warming. When burning coal, they also release particulate matter, sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxide and mercury - thus damaging the health of many…

Comparison of the greenhouse gases produced by lab-grown and farm-raised beef in the current energy system suggests that the benefits of reducing methane could be outweighed by increased CO2 Currently proposed types of lab-grown meat…

Growth in the offer of renewable energy sources will mean increased demand for devices optimal for energy storing; São Paulo and UK researchers presented advances in new battery development at FAPESP Week LondonCredit: André Julião …

SERIS, a world-leading solar cell research institute, and Guangzhou Ruxing Technology Development Company Ltd., a market-leading manufacturer of metallisation pastes for PV products, have signed a collaboration agreement to accelerate…

The visualization tool, called Carbon Catalogue, breaks down the carbon footprint of a product during its entire life cycleCredit: CoClear A Columbia researcher affiliated with the Data Science Institute has created a data-visualization…

A study by German scientists shows that artificial intelligence can substantially improve our understanding of the climate and the Earth systemCredit: (© Martin Jung) A study by German scientists from Jena and Hamburg, published today in…

The Research Center for Gas Innovation is developing technology to separate CO2 and methane in oil and gas exploration and store it in offshore salt cavernsCredit: André Julião A set of technologies that is expected to have its first…

Chasing a prizeCredit: UT Arlington Nothing spurs innovation in the quest for solutions to challenging problems like competition, and a University of Texas at Arlington researcher is leading a high-powered team in a Department of Energy…

Soil assessments pay off in faster regeneration, lower costsCredit: Virginia Brown More than 2.4 million miles of energy pipelines crisscross the United States. If assembled end-to-end, they would circle the Earth almost 100 times!…