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DECEMBER 16, 2015

Researchers from Purdue University and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland are proposing a new integrated process involving the co-production of hydrogen and electricity from solar thermal energy—a concept they label “hydricity”. —Gençer et al.

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MARCH 11, 2015

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed an innovative hydrogen-producing photoelectrochemical cell (PEC), using solar-driven biomass conversion as the anode reaction. —Cha and Choi (2015). Hyun Gil Cha & Kyoung-Shin Choi (2015) “Combined biomass valorization and ?

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

ExxonMobil and Princeton University announced the selection of five research projects associated with their partnership focused on energy technologies. The projects will center on solar and battery technologies; plasma physics; Arctic sea-ice modeling; and the impact of carbon dioxide absorption on the world’s oceans.

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AUGUST 2, 2015

After debuting the first solar air battery—a photo-assisted charging Li-O 2 battery—last fall ( earlier post ), researchers at The Ohio State University led by Professor Yiying Wu have now developed a new system combining a solar cell and a battery into a single device. Credit: ACS, Yu et al. Click to enlarge.

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JULY 27, 2012

million contract to develop a high-efficiency supercritical CO 2 hot gas turbo-expander for concentrating solar power (CSP) plants. The project, which will be conducted in three phases, is expected to begin August 2012, and will continue through 2015. SwRI and industry collaborators Solar Turbines Inc., The first is an $8.5-million

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JUNE 15, 2015

A team at McGill University in Canada has developed a reversible hydrogen storage/release system based on the metal-catalyzed hydrogenation and photo-induced dehydrogenation of organic cyclic hydrocarbons at room temperature. under visible light illumination (420–600 nm) without any other energy input.

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DECEMBER 11, 2014

The Commission also approved grants for the operation of a hydrogen fueling station, biofuel production, geothermal exploration and rooftop solar for schools. Two of the awardees, Halotechnics and the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), also received funds from the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E).

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MARCH 25, 2020

New research led by the University of Washington (UW) is the first to measure this phenomenon’s effect over years and at a regional scale. The new study uses observations from 2003 to 2015 in spring, the cloudiest season, over the shipping route between Europe and South Africa. Michael Diamond/University of Washington.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Energy Research Center at RWTH Aachen University, E.ON electric utility company, battery manufacturers Exide and beta-motion and inverter manufacturer SMA Solar Technology AG (SMA) have joined forces to build the first multi-technology, modular large-scale 5MW battery storage system. Batteries Power Generation Solar Wind'

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JUNE 9, 2017

More than 2,000 fuel cell vehicles have been sold or leased in the US since 2015. 19 projects will leverage the HydroGEN Consortium to accelerate the development of advanced water-splitting materials for hydrogen production, with an initial focus on advanced electrolytic, photoelectrochemical, and solar thermochemical pathways.

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AUGUST 11, 2015

A team at Monash University (Australia) has developed an “artificial photosynthesis” system that delivers the highest efficiency reported to date—in excess of 22%—for the solar-driven conversion of water to hydrogen. A paper on the researchers’s work is published in the RSC journal Energy & Environmental Science.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The selected projects—spanning 22 states and coordinated at universities, national laboratories, and private companies—will advance technologies for a wide range of areas, including electric vehicles, offshore wind, storage and nuclear recycling. Cornell University. Stanford University. The Ohio State University.

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JANUARY 5, 2020

The amount of cobalt, copper, lithium, cadmium, and rare earth elements needed for solar photovoltaics, batteries, electric vehicle (EV) motors, wind turbines, fuel cells, and nuclear reactors will likely grow at a rapid pace in the upcoming years. Sovacool, Professor of Energy Policy at the University of Sussex. —Sovacool et al.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

New research led by scientists from the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University reveals how individual atoms move in trillionths of a second to form wrinkles on a three-atom-thick material. In addition, they capture light very efficiently and could be used in future solar cells. and Reid, A.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Today, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to scientists from MIT, Columbia University, and the New York–based company Nanocrystals Technology for “the development of quantum dots , nanoparticles so tiny that their size determines their properties.” It’s a welcome development.

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AUGUST 21, 2017

Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and partners will present their new prototype of an electric four-wheel drive utility vehicle designed for Africa—the aCar — at the International Motor Show (IAA) in Frankfurt next month. Solar modules mounted on the roof of the aCar gather energy throughout the day.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2015

The annual production rate of > 90 wt% ethanol using such a photosynthesis system operating at 10 mA cm -2 (12% solar-to-fuel (STF) efficiency) can be 15.27 The program’s first phase focused on solar H 2 generation, which was completed in September 2015. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). Singh and Alexis T. Singh, Ezra L.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

That all changed this year, after a team of IEEE volunteers traveled to the village and installed photovoltaic panels, a battery storage system, and a solar water heater at the Shree Batase Secondary School in Melamchi, which is about 45 kilometers from the capital city of Kathmandu. The earthquake severely damaged Melamchi’s power lines.

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MARCH 17, 2020

Researchers at the University of California, Irvine and other institutions have conducted a statistical analysis of pollution exposure and yields from 1980 to 2015 on a key sector making up about 38% of the state’s total agricultural output: perennial crops such as almonds, grapes, nectarines, peaches, strawberries and walnuts.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Title Head, Renesas -Tata Consultancy Services Joint Innovation Center Member grade Senior member Alma maters Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, in Delhi, India; University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada “The idea is to enable more end-to-end solutions for India as well as other global markets,” he says. Sharma earned a Ph.D.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Audi has set the goal of successively reducing vehicle-specific CO 2 emissions by 30% by 2025 compared with reference year 2015 and over the entire product lifecycle. The brand is also continuing to develop conventional engines with a focus on universal mild hybridization and the 48-volt electrical system.

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MAY 26, 2015

Again emphasizing that there has been no announcement of development direction, the potential building blocks for a solar fuels isooctane process are emerging. If successful, the first commercialization of this technology is expected as early as 2018. Earlier post.). Isobutene and isooctane. Ng, and Garry L.

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JUNE 16, 2013

million contract by the California Energy Commission’s Research and Development program to fund design and integration of an ultracapacitor-based energy storage system with Soitec’s CPV system located on the campus of University of California, San Diego, and a second commercial scale system at Soitec’s solar power plant in Southern California.

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OCTOBER 25, 2017

University of Delaware Professor Willett Kempton, the pioneer of the grid-integrated vehicle concept, is Nuvve’s CTO.). As solar, wind and other renewable sources, which are intermittent, replace fossil fuels as a source of energy and enter mainstream power grids, stabilizing the power supply also poses a challenge. Earlier post.).

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OCTOBER 7, 2015

To determine what was happening, and the best way to make it happen, the Sandia team used computer simulations generated by coauthor Na Sai from the University of Texas at Austin that suggested which molecular changes to seek. —co-author Jeff Brinker, Sandia Fellow and University of New Mexico professor. —Bryan Kaehr.

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DECEMBER 10, 2015

The Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) has awarded $3 million from its 2015 OPEN funding to a project to develop an all-solid-state sodium battery. A team led by Yan Yao at the University of Houston will create a new cathode for the battery. Led by Steve W.

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JULY 10, 2019

OTT was established in 2015 to advance the economic, energy, and national security interests of the United States by expanding the commercial impact of the Department of Energy’s research and development portfolio. Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. Austin, Texas First Solar Inc., Pipersville, Pa. New York, N.Y.

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JULY 15, 2013

Originally launched by Ford in January 2009, the colognE-Mobil large-scale electric vehicle field trial brought together four partners—the Ford-Werke GmbH, RheinEnergie AG, the city of Cologne and the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE)—in a project to test electrical mobility in all its aspects under everyday conditions.

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MARCH 2, 2017

The battery storage solution will account for a significant part of the energy system, in which solar and wind energy will provide the majority of electricity production. EnergyLab Nordhavn – new urban energy infrastructures” is a four-year project (2015-19) developing future energy solutions.

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JULY 23, 2015

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and University of Western Australia (UWA) researchers have developed a new process to develop few-layer graphene for use in energy storage and other material applications that is faster, potentially scalable and surmounts some of the current graphene production limitations. Raston, Jeffrey M.

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JANUARY 22, 2015

Scientists at the Helmholtz Center for Materials and Energy (HZB) in collaboration with the School of Chemistry and ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science at Monash University, Australia, have precisely characterized the electronic states of a manganese (Mn) water-splitting catalyst for artificial photosynthesis.

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DECEMBER 8, 2015

For example, solar-storage integrated systems require lifetimes matching solar cells (30 years), electric vehicles require a high power and capacity, and grid storage requires an extreme low cost. —Cohn et al. Cohn, Keith Share, Rachel Carter, Landon Oakes, and Cary L. 5b04187.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

A technical brief by Dr. John DeCicco at the University of Michigan Energy Institute shows that transportation is overtaking electricity generation as the largest source of US CO 2. per year over 2007-2015 due to the displacement of coal by natural gas, wind and solar for power production as well as energy efficiency gains.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2016

A paper by a team from the University of Chicago and MIT suggests that technology-driven cost reductions in fossil fuels will lead to the continued use of fossil fuels—oil, gas, and coal—unless governments pass new taxes on carbon emissions. But in 2015, the average price of oil was about $49 per barrel.

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APRIL 1, 2013

Researchers at the University of Calgary have developed a new process for producing amorphous mixed-metal oxide films for oxygen evolution reaction (OER) catalysis for electrolysis. even for small-scale applications using hydrogen as a storage medium for intermittent renewables such as solar and wind. Source: FFC. Click to enlarge.

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AUGUST 22, 2023

Singh’s work is generally being used in non-Deere applications, such as a battery-charging system connected to distributed energy resources like solar, wind, and diesel generators. To accelerate Deere’s electrification evolution, from 2015 through 2021, Singh and his group collaborated with researchers from the U.S.

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DECEMBER 16, 2015

The work led by Xing at Cornell University is the first report of GaN p-n diodes with near-ideal performance in all aspects simultaneously: a unity ideality factor, avalanche breakdown voltage, and about a two-fold improvement in device figure-of-merits over previous records. —Zongyang Hu, lead author.

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