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Researchers use quantum computing method to optimize molecular photoswitches for solar energy harvesting

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Molecular photoswitches that can both convert and store energy could be used to make solar energy harvesting more efficient. An open-access paper on the study is published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition. This corresponds to a closed cycle of energy capture, storage and release.

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Endesa develops prototype charger enabling electric vehicle to return power to the grid; hoping for deployment by 2020

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Endesa, Spain’s largest utility, has developed a prototype V2G (Vehicle to Grid) charger that enables electric vehicles to return stored power to the grid. Endesa was one of the first companies to join international standardisation and regulation groups for e-mobility equipment, systems and solutions.

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Thermal Solar Goes Where PVs Can’t

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As electric utilities and policymakers seek solutions for storing and dispatching energy on demand, concentrating solar-thermal power (CSP) is once again gaining traction. Solar-thermal systems use sun-tracking mirrors to reflect sunlight onto a receiver, which contains a high-temperature fluid that stores heat.

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Thermal Solar Goes Where PVs Can’t

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As electric utilities and policymakers seek solutions for storing and dispatching energy on demand, concentrating solar-thermal power (CSP) is once again gaining traction. Solar-thermal systems use sun-tracking mirrors to reflect sunlight onto a receiver, which contains a high-temperature fluid that stores heat.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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From an official point of view, COP 15 is to be informed by the most recent report from the UNFCCC’s International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the Fourth Assessment Report (AR4), published in 2007. Without a clear and ambitious number, the whole agreement will be in danger ” [ 8 ].

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Fraunhofer researchers using student e-racer to demonstrate novel sensor and battery management systems

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The e-racer from the team at Hochschule Esslingen University of Applied Sciences Click to enlarge. As individual battery cells age, they are able to store less and less energy. The energy stored in other cells remained unused. This year EVE will be in the lineup for the Formula Student race in Italy, Spain and Czechia.

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Researchers develop new highly efficient core-shell catalyst for methane oxidation; potential for reducing emissions from automotive engines

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Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, along with collaborators from Italy and Spain, have designed new core-shell type catalysts inspired by the concepts of supramolecular chemistry that oxidize methane 30 times better than do currently available catalysts. Click to enlarge. It remains to be shown whether Cargnello et al.’s

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