Electric vehicles could be powered by hydrogen harvested from sewage
Hydrogen is valuable as it is a renewable source, and could be sold to the chemicals and plastics industry or used in hydrogen fuel...
Scientists find potential way to convert food waste into batteries
What do apple cores, spent grain, and walnut shells have in common?
They could one day be used to power a data center.
As the world...
A more efficient and sustainable battery for a more ‘electrified’ society
An assistant professor in the department of chemistry at the University of Chicago, John Anderson has patented a material that can store and produce...
New material from trees could help make better, safer batteries
A material derived from trees could potentially replace liquid electrolytes in next-generation batteries.
To get batteries that deliver more power and operate more safely, researchers...
Next-gen solar material could outshine other solar cells
An exciting new solar material called organic-inorganic halide perovskites could one day help the U.S. achieve its solar ambitions and decarbonize the power grid.
One...
Liquid metal could be cheap and efficient CO2 converter
Engineers from UNSW have helped discover a cheap new way to capture and convert CO2 greenhouse emissions using liquid metal.
The process can be done...
Plant-based jet fuel could reduce emissions by 68%
Replacing petroleum-based aviation fuel with sustainable aviation fuel derived from a type of mustard plant can reduce carbon emissions by up to 68%, according...
Scientists find large solar parks could cool surrounding land for the first time
Scientists using satellite technologies have discovered for the first time that large scale solar parks have a cooling effect on the land surrounding them.
As...
Scientists clear the efficiency hurdle for organic solar cells
Researchers have identified a key mechanism responsible for the lower efficiencies of organic solar cells and shown a way that this hurdle might be...
Researchers create a high performance all-solid-state battery
Engineers created a new type of battery that weaves two promising battery sub-fields into a single battery.
The battery uses both a solid state electrolyte...