Energy utilization as a research area investigates the quantitative conversion, distribution, and consumption of energy within technical, biological, or socioeconomic systems, with emphasis on efficiency, losses, and optimization under thermodynamic and engineering constraints. It encompasses analytical and experimental methods to characterize energy flows, exergy destruction, and performance metrics across processes such as industrial manufacturing, transportation, buildings, and energy conversion technologies. Research typically integrates modeling, measurement, and control strategies to minimize primary energy input for a given service output, reduce waste heat and parasitic loads, and support system-level planning, often interfacing with energy systems analysis, demand-side management, and sustainability assessment.
The artificial intelligence (AI) boom has created unprecedented demand for data traffic. But the infrastructure needed to support it faces mounting challenges. AI data centers must deliver faster, more reliable communication ...
Optics & Photonics
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Saving energy isn't just about keeping bills down. A new analysis of 100 existing studies across 42 countries shows that people with positive attitudes to the environment, or who want what they do at home to make a difference ...
Environment
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Scientists are exploring many ways to use light rather than heat to drive chemical reactions more efficiently, which could significantly reduce waste, energy consumption, and reliance on nonrenewable resources.
Nanophysics
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Some people flip off the lights the moment they leave a room, while others rarely think twice about saving energy. According to the most comprehensive analysis of people's sentiments toward household energy savings to date, ...
Environment
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Tokamaks are machines that are meant to hold and harness the power of the sun. These fusion machines use powerful magnets to contain a plasma hotter than the sun's core and push the plasma's atoms to fuse and release energy. ...
Plasma Physics
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Harnessing quantum states that avoid thermalization enables energy harvesters to surpass traditional thermodynamic limits such as Carnot efficiency, report researchers from Japan. The team developed a new approach using a ...
Condensed Matter
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Cells bumping against one another use electricity to identify which of their neighbors has the least energy to expel them. The King's College London study in partnership with the Francis Crick Institute provides insight into ...
Cell & Microbiology
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University at Albany chemists have created a new high-energy compound that could revolutionize rocket fuel and make space flights more efficient. Upon ignition, the compound releases more energy relative to its weight and ...
Space Exploration
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Scientists pursuing magnetically-confined nuclear fusion as a clean energy source grapple with the "core-edge challenge," the need to integrate the core of the reactor, where plasma must be 10 times hotter than the sun, with ...
Plasma Physics
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How can thermoelectric generators (TEGs) help advance future lunar surface habitats? This is what a recent study published in Acta Astronautica hopes to address as a team of researchers from the Republic of Korea investigated ...
Space Exploration
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