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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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JUNE 6, 2014

Synthetic fuel production from fuel-combustion-based energy and CO 2 (top) and from atmospheric CO 2 using solar electricity (bottom). That solar fuels offer the promise of solar energy storage—a key challenge in a world predominantly relying on renewables. Credit: ACS, van der Giesen et al. Click to enlarge.

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MAY 26, 2015

using just water, H 2 , CO 2 and sunlight. However, in 2014, LanzaTech signed a research and development agreement with its partner INVISTA to collaborate on the development of gas-fermentation process technology for the production of industrial chemicals from CO 2 and H 2 using proprietary INVISTA host organisms and metabolic pathways.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2015

Researchers at the University of Toronto have developed a catalyst comprising of black silicon nanowire supported ruthenium ( Ru/SiNW) for the photochemical and thermochemical reduction of gaseous CO 2 to methane (methanation) in the presence of hydrogen under solar-simulated light. 1 under 14.5 reduction of gaseous CO 2 by H 2.

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AUGUST 8, 2014

A team at George Washington University led by Stuart Licht has developed a relatively efficient electrochemical process for the production of ammonia from water and nitrogen, without the need for an independent hydrogenation step (and thus the associated carbon-intensive steam reforming of methane as the hydrogen source).

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JANUARY 17, 2015

The report, “ Renewable Power Generation Costs in 2014 ”, concludes that biomass, hydropower, geothermal and onshore wind are all competitive with or cheaper than coal, oil and gas-fired power stations, even without financial support and despite falling oil prices. Solar PV module prices have dropped 75% since 2009 and continue to decrease.

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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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JANUARY 30, 2014

Researchers at the University of Delaware have developed a highly selective nanoporous silver catalyst capable of electrochemically reducing carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide with 92% efficiency. The carbon monoxide then can be used to produce synthetic fuels and chemicals. The researcher reported their findings in Nature Communications.

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JANUARY 24, 2014

Researchers at North Carolina State University and Duke University have shown that a one-atom thick film of molybdenum sulfide (MoS 2 ) may work as an effective catalyst for creating hydrogen. His team is working to develop a solar-powered water-splitting device that uses the MoS 2 thin films to create hydrogen.

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MARCH 8, 2018

Researchers at Australia’s RMIT University have demonstrated for the first time a working rechargeable “proton battery”. In 2014, the RMIT team showed that a proton battery with a metal alloy electrode for storing hydrogen could work, but its reversibility and rechargeability was too low. Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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JANUARY 21, 2015

Governor Jerry Brown’s office informed the university this month that the fueling facility had received the certification, known as California Type Approval. is the largest such facility on a university campus in the United States and produces hydrogen on site. Source: Dr. David Blekhman. Click to enlarge. The station is grid-tied.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Michael Grätzel at EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) in Switzerland has developed a highly efficient and low-cost water-splitting cell combining an advanced perovskite tandem solar cell and a bi-functional Earth-abundant catalyst. conversion efficiency from solar energy to hydrogen, a record with earth-abundant materials.

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DECEMBER 4, 2014

Researchers from Japan’s National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) and TU-NIMS Joint Research Center, Tianjin University, China have developed a new, particularly efficient photocatalytic system for the conversion of CO 2 into CO and hydrocarbons. Carbon Capture and Conversion (CCC) Catalysts Fuels Solar Solar fuels'

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NOVEMBER 25, 2015

Leichter at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego, and a team led by Douglas C. Part of the gas can also be used to produce the hydrogen (by steam reforming and water-gas shift) needed to upgrade the biocrude via hydrotreating. Elliott at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington.

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AUGUST 4, 2022

He left there in 1966 to join the University of Cambridge as an assistant director of research. He earned his bachelor’s degree in aeronautical engineering in 1958 from the University of Bristol , in England. He was the 2014–2015 chair of the IEEE Seoul Section. He worked at the university at the time of his death.

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DECEMBER 19, 2021

The proposal calls for what’s known as “solar geoengineering”: cooling the planet by deflecting sunlight that would otherwise strike the planet. Little is known about how, or whether, solar geoengineering might work and how the particles would react and move in the stratosphere.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2015

The California Energy Commission adopted its 2014 Integrated Energy Policy Report (IEPR) Update, which outlines, among many things, how the state is working to transform the transportation system to zero- and near-zero technologies and fuels to meet its climate and clean air goals. Charging infrastructure.

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JUNE 25, 2013

Among the transportation-related elements of US President Barack Obama’s new climate action plan, which he is outlining today in a speech at Georgetown University, is the development of new fuel economy standards for heavy-duty vehicles post-2018. A proposal for existing plants is due in 2014, with targeted file rule in 2015.

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MARCH 31, 2014

The project, which was supported by the National Science Foundation, involved researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Texas at Austin, and the Raytheon Company. But these conjugated polymers are already used in solar cells and electronic devices, and can also work as thermal materials. Virenda Singh, et al.

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DECEMBER 30, 2014

One-pot electrolytic process produces H 2 and solid carbon from water and CO 2. The work is a further development of their work with STEP (solar thermal electrochemical process)—an efficient solar chemical process, based on a synergy of solar thermal and endothermic electrolyses, introduced by Licht and his colleagues in 2009.

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AUGUST 22, 2014

Researchers at Stanford University, with colleagues at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and other institutions, have developed a nickel-based electrocatalyst for low-cost water-splitting for hydrogen production with performance close to that of much more expensive commercial platinum electrocatalysts. Pennycook, University of Tennessee.

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JANUARY 5, 2023

When that company was bought out by ENEL X , Miftakhov used the substantial profit to launch ZeroAvia in Hollister, California to develop and manufacture fuel cell-powered electric aircraft using green hydrogen (locally produced by electrolysis of water using solar or wind power). It’s very cool."

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Chemists from the University of Glasgow (Scotland) have developed a new method for hydrogen production that is 30 times faster than current state-of-the-art proton exchange membrane electrolyzers at equivalent platinum loading. Hence, if the energy source is renewable, H 2 can be produced sustainably from water using electrolysis.

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JANUARY 29, 2022

And third, while wind and solar-photovoltaic systems are great for the climate and are the fastest-growing sources of electric generation, the variability of their output begets new challenges for balancing the grid. The brown line shows the uncoordinated load from 1,000 electric water heaters for reference. kilowatt-hours.

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JUNE 29, 2011

In parallel, more and more electricity is being generated from solar and water power. One of the goals of Volkswagen AG is to launch numerous plug-in hybrid cars on the market in the years 2013/2014. The German federal government is targeting one million electric vehicles in Germany by 2020. sunshine duration, wind strength).

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MARCH 10, 2018

Water flow through the membranes was 1000 times higher than predicted by Hagen-Poiseuille flow, in agreement with previous CNT membrane studies. The difficulty and high cost of making CNT membranes has confined them to university laboratories and has been frequently cited as the limiting factor in their widespread use. Mattershift.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2014

2014 has been a year of rapid growth for the fuel cell market with positive progress being made globally, especially in markets such as US, UK, Germany, France and Japan. Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the Universe but, on earth, it must normally be extracted from water or organic compounds.

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DECEMBER 9, 2016

N-R HESs are physically coupled facilities that include both nuclear and renewable energy sources and produce electricity and another product such as a fuel, thermal energy, hydrogen, and desalinated water. Those potential sources include small modular nuclear reactors, solar heat for industrial processes, and geothermal heat.

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JULY 17, 2015

It offers the solution to several significant transitions we need: moving society from burning fossil fuels to substituting renewable resource fuels such as solar, wind and biofuels; and from using fossil materials as fuel to using them for other recyclable uses. Distributed Solar and Wind with the PHEV. It is much more than that.

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APRIL 12, 2015

Researchers at the Skoltech Center for Electrochemical Energy Storage (CEES), a partnership between the MIT Materials Processing Center and Lomonosov Moscow State University, are focusing on the development of higher capacity batteries. Reversible fuel-electrolysis cells. —Harry Tuller. earlier post ). —Harry Tuller.

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MARCH 31, 2014

A mixture of diamond nanoparticles and mineral oil easily outperforms other types of fluid created for heat-transfer applications, according to new research by a team led by researchers at Rice University. Ajayan (2014) “Nanodiamond-Based Thermal Fluids,” ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces doi: 10.1021/am405575t.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Alternatively they can serve as buffers for renewables such as wind and solar power—whether as part of the grid or as home installations. mi) on a single tank, with nothing more than a few drops of water leaving the tailpipe. Because the exhaust system transports only water, it can be made of lightweight polymer.

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JUNE 23, 2015

Researchers at Stanford University have developed a new low-voltage, single-catalyst water splitter that continuously generates hydrogen and oxygen. In the reported study, the new catalyst achieved 10 mA cm −2 water-splitting current at only 1.51 V V to reach 10 mA cm −2 current (for integrated solar water splitting).

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The legislation would also provide new incentives for domestic oil and gas drilling, nuclear power plant construction, carbon capture and storage, and renewable energy sources like wind and solar. The total amount of pollution allowances sold may not exceed 188 million tons per year through 2014. The program then reduces the cap by 2.5

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