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Storage & Harvest
It’s all very well harnessing the power of renewable energy, but where to put it? Here is the latest news of solutions for the storage and harvest of energy.
‘Tree Turbines’ turning in your back garden
Wind turbines are becoming increasingly popular as a cost-efficient way of saving the planet, and now you can have…
Hydronium-Ion Batteries Promise Sustainable Energy Storage
Developed by scientists at Oregon State University, a new hydronium-ion battery shows promise for sustainable,…
New Battery Could Run Longer Than A Decade
A new flow battery which stores energy in organic molecules dissolved in neutral pH water has been introduced from…
Multi-Energy-Harvesting Device To Push IoT Development
Researchers from the University of Oulu in Finland have found that a mineral with the perovskite crystal structure…
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…
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…
Predicting the light absorbed by photosynthetic pigments
A wide variety of pigments to absorb different wavelengths of light are used by plants and other photosynthetic…
French town powered by solar panel paved road
France has inaugurated the world's first 'solar highway', a road paved with solar panels providing enough energy to…
Mini-factory for drugs within artificial leaf
To produce drugs sustainably and cheaply, anywhere you want, a 'mini-factory' whereby sunlight can be captured to…