Category Archives: Energy & Green Tech

Graphical abstract. Credit: Energies (2022). DOI: 10.3390/en15176114 The rapid spread of the coronavirus has caused deep-reaching and unprecedented changes in every aspect of society, the energy sector being no exception. Travel reductions, changing work arrangements, and altered consumption patterns significantly affected energy markets, with crude oil demand and energy prices falling in tandem. As the…

Researchers from GIST report ACR as an effective way of removing unwanted ligands and improving the efficiency of organic photovoltaics (OPVs) with a transition metal oxide (TMO) interfacial layer. Credit: Kwanghee Lee from Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Korea Harnessing the power of the sun and converting it into electricity using photovoltaic solar cells…

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said the three plants will run from the end of 2022 until April 2023. Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Monday ordered all three of Germany’s remaining nuclear power plants to stay operational until mid-April, breaking an impasse that had caused a rift among his coalition partners as an energy crisis looms. Germany…

If we wait a few years to order a nuclear power plant, you can easily imagine that it could be a plant based on small, modular reactors, says section leader at DTU Bent Lauritzen. Credit: Technical University of Denmark Nuclear power has become an issue in the election campaign in Denmark. In a survey conducted…

A solar panel installation sits in Ruicheng County in central China’s Shanxi Province, on Nov. 28, 2019. For countries to transition away from fossil fuels and toward cleaner energies like solar power, supply chains for components need to be more geographically diverse, officials said during a conference on solar energy in New Delhi said on…

Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (R) shakes hands with Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong during their meeting at Parliament House in Canberra on October 18, 2022. Australia touted a world-first project Tuesday that could help make the country a “renewable energy superpower” by shifting huge volumes of solar electricity under the sea to Singapore….

Scanning electron microscopy images at different magnifications reveal the spherelike morphology of the powder particles of NMC622, one of the two materials synthesized in the study by Skoltech researchers. The image is relatively sparsely populated by particles for better visibility, but their spherical morphology means that in an actual battery, they can be compacted to…

Credit: California Institute of Technology Once considered science fiction, technology capable of collecting solar power in space and beaming it to Earth to provide a global supply of clean and affordable energy is moving closer to reality. Through the Space-based Solar Power Project (SSPP), a team of Caltech researchers is working to deploy a constellation…

a) Photograph of a section of face mask material used for CNT production. Sections were cut and b) dispersed in toluene to form the plastic carbon precursor seen in a vial. Credit: Carbon Letters (2022). DOI: 10.1007/s42823-022-00398-8 Swansea University academics have pioneered a process that converts the carbon found in discarded facemasks to create high-quality…

A photo of hydrogen mixed fuel combustor, developed by the research team led by Dr. Minkuk Kim, head of the Department of Zero-carbon Fuel and Power Generation at the KIMM Institute of Carbon Neutral Energy Machinery. Credit: Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials (KIMM) An eco-friendly hydrogen combustor for domestic gas turbines that reduces carbon…