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Solar-powered water purifier addresses global drinking water shortages
Bear Grylls has turned foul water into drinking water with little more than sunlight and plastic.
Now, academics…
Storing Solar Power Increases Energy Consumption
According to research from the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, homes with…
Solar-Powered Water Purifier Addresses Global Drinking Water Shortages
Bear Grylls has turned foul water into drinking water with little more than sunlight and plastic.
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…
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…
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…
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…