MIT researchers have found a new family of materials that provides the best-ever performance in a reaction called oxygen evolution, a key requirement for energy storage and delivery systems such as advanced fuel cells and ...
Materials Science
Sep 17, 2013
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(Phys.org) —Research into the best ways to arrange wind turbines has produced staggering results—quite literally.
Energy & Green Tech
Oct 31, 2013
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Foreign energy firms have flocked to a narrow region of southern Mexico, known as one of the world's windiest places, to build towering wind turbines, but some projects have angered and torn indigenous villages.
Energy & Green Tech
Apr 6, 2013
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Two University of Calgary researchers have developed a ground-breaking way to make new affordable and efficient catalysts for converting electricity into chemical energy.
Materials Science
Mar 28, 2013
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The costs of generating electricity through wind farms at sea still need to be lower. Researcher Michiel Zaayer of TU Delft has developed a program that can help. On Monday 16 December, he will defend his doctoral dissertation ...
Energy & Green Tech
Dec 16, 2013
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Thanks to the innovative radar scanner from the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics IAF, defects in the material composition of the wind turbine blades can now be detected with far greater accuracy and visualized ...
Engineering
Apr 10, 2017
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Upward lightning strikes initiate on the ground and head skyward. These discharges, which usually begin at the top of tall and slender structures, pose a real risk for wind turbines. An EPFL study analyzes the mechanisms ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 11, 2015
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Malaysian activists said on Friday they had filed a court challenge to block a rare earths plant being built by Australian miner Lynas, which has stoked fears over radiation pollution.
Business
Feb 17, 2012
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For Altaeros Energies, a startup launched out of MIT, the sky's the limit when it comes to wind power.
Energy & Green Tech
May 15, 2014
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Superconducting materials are characterized by the fact that they lose their electrical resistance below a certain temperature, the so-called transition temperature. In principle, they would be ideal for transporting electrical ...
Superconductivity
Nov 22, 2022
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