Scholars suggest China may have reached peak consumption of coal in 2013
(Phys.org)—A small team of scholars has published a Commentary piece in the journal Nature Geoscience suggesting that China has reached peak coal consumption far earlier than most in the field had...
View ArticleA research project helps reduce the cost of parallel computing
Heterogeneous parallel computing combines various processing elements with different characteristics that share a single memory system. Normally multiple cores (like the 'multicores' in some smart...
View ArticleThe Thai village using poop to power homes
Nestled in a deep pocket of forest that lies off Thailand's electrical grid, villagers in Pa Deng have become early adopters and evangelists for an unusual alternative energy source: poop.
View ArticlePro-nuclear countries making slower progress on climate targets
A strong national commitment to nuclear energy goes hand in hand with weak performance on climate change targets, researchers at the University of Sussex and the Vienna School of International Studies...
View ArticleArtificial photosynthesis: Researchers create the first practical design for...
Scientists from Forschungszentrum Juelich have developed the first complete and compact design for an artificial photosynthesis facility. This is a decisive step towards applying the technology. The...
View ArticleReport offers options for achieving carbon neutrality by 2035
Last spring, Provost Michael Kotlikoff called on the Senior Leaders Climate Action Group to explore options for the Ithaca campus to achieve climate neutrality by 2035, including a detailed financial...
View ArticleSolar is a rapidly growing energy source
"The sun is a solution," concluded Prof. Arno Smets in his inaugural address given at TU Delft on Wednesday, 28 September. Smets and his group at TU Delft envisage all energy provision being based on...
View ArticleNew advances in solar cell technology
With the high environmental cost of conventional energy sources and the finite supply of fossil fuels, the importance of renewable energy sources has become much more apparent in recent years. However,...
View ArticleSupporting uptake of green gas
Lucy Culleton of the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) has won the first European Biogas Association (EBA) Poster Award for her work supporting the introduction of biogas into Europe's gas networks.
View ArticleA clean room for making sensors to find light from the birth of the universe
It takes a very, very clean room to build a detector sensitive enough to see the light from the beginning of the universe.
View ArticleSweden wants EU to switch to emission-free cars by 2030
Sweden's environment minister on Saturday urged the European Union to ban petrol and diesel-powered vehicles from 2030.
View ArticleNTU Singapore to build an offshore integrated system of renewable energy sources
Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore) is building an offshore system that will integrate multiple renewable energy sources such as solar, wind, tidal, diesel, and power-to-gas technologies.
View ArticleSimulation brings global 100% renewable electricity system alive for the...
A new model developed by Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) shows how an electricity system mainly based on solar and wind works in all regions of the world. It shows the functioning of an...
View ArticlePower-to-liquid—pilot operation of first compact plant
Demand-driven production of liquid fuels from regenerative energy sources is a major element of the energy turnaround. Production of synthetic fuels from solar energy and carbon dioxide extracted from...
View ArticleGlow-in-the-dark dye could fuel liquid-based batteries
Could a glow-in-the-dark dye be the next advancement in energy storage technology?
View ArticlePlug-in electric vehicles—a consumer wish list
A national survey of consumer attitudes towards plug-in electric vehicles suggests that people would prefer control to convenience in many charging scenarios, and also that renewable energy sources are...
View ArticleVulnerable countries pledge to go all-renewables, with help
More than 40 developing nations on the front lines of climate change have pledged to pursue 100 percent renewable energy.
View ArticleWhat if neutron scattering uses the same type of detectors used to look into...
An EU-funded SINE2020 team is working on developing Resistive Plate Chambers for neutron detectors to help improve experiments for scientists across Europe.
View ArticleEU on track to meet 2020 target for renewable energy: report
EU countries are on track to meet their 2020 targets for renewable energy and emissions cuts but could fall short of ambitious longer-term goals, the European Environment Agency (EEA) said Thursday.
View ArticleOpen source planning tool for the energy turnaround: platform for electric...
How much electricity flows through the grid? When and where? Where are the bottlenecks? What happens when wind turbines and solar cells feed in additional energy? The answer to these questions are...
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