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Energy refers to the application of engineering to energy efficiency and services, facility management, ecology, and alternative energy technologies. It includes renewable energy sources such as solar, wind, geothermal power, biofuels, and hydro power.
Biomass Converted Into Clean-Burning Fuel
Twice a year, when the harvest is done on the millions of small farms in India, these farms go up in flames.…
Smart City Solar ‘Soofa’ Charges Smartphones
MIT Media Lab spinout Changing Environments is hoping to accelerate the development of 'smart' cities that use…
Jumping Spiders Show Their True Colors
While most people are petrified of spiders, the few arachnophiles out there will find tiny spider dancers who can…
Promising approach for producing sustainable carbon-free energy
Mechanisms to generate hydrogen from water and sunlight are being fine tuned by scientists and collaborators at…
Hummingbird inspires novel wind turbine design
A new type of wind turbine has been developed by a Tunisian company called Tyer Wind, and is based on what the…
Grapefruit-sized underwater robots mimic ocean life
To offer scientists a tool to study ocean currents and the tiny creatures they transport, researchers at Scripps…
Germany city of Essen is the official European Green Capital
During a creative orchestrated stage show, the Lord Mayor of Essen Thomas Kufen launched the title year together…
Electron microscopy study to understand energy storage
Researchers in the Dionne lab camped out with one of the most advanced microscopes in the world to capture an…
Nanoscale semiconductor raises solar cell energy conversion rate
Solar cells do not convert all light to power equally, which has inspired a joint industry-academia effort to…
Largest ever dataset of poplar tree genetic variations released
The largest ever single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) dataset of genetic variations in poplar trees, information…